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So I decided to brew my first winter warmer. The good news is that I drastically improved my effeciency during this brew, the bad knews is that instead of a 1.071 gravity I ended with a 1.082. I used a Wyeast London Ale yeast that has an alcohol tolerence of up to 10%. I dont yet have my FG...

With an uber busy weekend schedule comming up I'm not finding enough time to complete my typical brew process all at once. I'm wondering if anybody has ever broken the process up into 2 seperate sessions and if they did how did it turn out, what where the pit-falls, etc. I'm thinking of...

This is my first attempt at home made recipe and I wanted to see if anybody has any feedback. The goal is for a big pale ale slightly on the malty side but not neccisarily sweet. I just got a huge supply of willamette hops from a farmoutside my house so I'll be using those. I also really...

So I've made about 4 batches of beer and each time I keep getting stuck at 1.020. I've used the dry foil packets of yeast and some slap packs. They all start with a good vigorous fermentation but can't seem to keep going. I like to ferment a little on the cool side around 65-66. Could that...

I recently took a Shakespear Sout clone and added about an oz of Hazelnut extract to it at flame out. It's been in the bottle for about a week and I opened a bottle just for a sampler. Carbonation has a little way to go as expected but eveything is there for my first truley great brew! the...

Hey all, I did a brew on saturday that really took off on sunday night. Monday morning I had to hook up a blow off tube because I had so much krausen coming out of the ale pail. I did do a 6 gallon batch so there was less room at the top than normal but it was still a lot of the foamy...

Hi Everyone, I found this Shakespeare Stout extract recipe in an earlier thread. However, I'm a bit suspcious of it. Why use amber LME instead of Dark? In the past the Amber has not given me the color I was looking for. Also, the rogue website says they use 135L-165L crystal malts...

I recently brewed up a batch of a Robust Porter. I just got my first taste after a 10 day primary 2 week secondary and 1 week in the bottle. Carbonation seemed to be comming along nicely and the flavor wasn't bad. However, it was lacking in body, a touch watery if you ask me. There was no...

So this may belong in the newbie forum because that is deffinitly what I am but it also relates to bottling. I did my first two batches with natural bottle carbonation and used batch priming but had fairly flat beer both times much to my chagrin. My friends who started their first few...

I'm brewing a pretty standard porter recipe. It's been in the primary for exactly a week. I decided to take a hydrometer reading and everything seems to be going great on that front. However, the color is very light. more of an amber color than a nice dark porter. It also had the nice roasty...

I posted earlier about some temp issues during primary fermentation. Too cold at first then warmed it up. Had great fermentation and saw lots of bublbles but then warmed it up perhaps a bit much. Probably closer to 80. Thought I had maybe killed the yeast but most of the fine folks here...

So I've had a bunch of issues keeping a good temperature in my old house. It gets down to around 58 when we turn the heat off at night so I wasnt getting much action. During the day I moved the primary fermenter close to an air vent and wrapped a blanket around it to increase the temp. This...