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Alright, just testing a concept to make sure I'm not missing any issues down the line. My idea is to use a cooler in my BIAB setup to keep the mash temp stable in the fall/winter. All I plan to do is hold the grain in a nylon bag while in the cooler. After the mash, remove the grain bag and...

Hello Everyone, As a result of high temperatures over the last few days here in Michigan, I have been putting more effort into controlling the temperature of my most recent batch. My problem is once I got the temperature of the carboy to drop, the yeast slowed down dramatically, and the...

My last PM went well, but I seem to have one consistent problem dating back to my first beer. Every beer has turned out much darker than the style/recipe would indicate, and I mean a lot darker. In this case I had a Belgian Wit PM recipe with an estimated SRM of about 5.8-6. From this I would...

I had a brew day today using a Belgian Wit PM Kit from AHS. Everything went well except for two things: 1.) The wort in the fermenter is pretty cloudy, in part because I accidentally picked up a good part of the hot break. 2.) The wort, even though in a snow bank, took a very long time in...

I have a question about Coriander as I have not used it in a brew before. A couple friends are coming over to brew a Belgian White PM Kit I picked up from AHS in a while. The recipe calls for 1/2 oz of coriander but stops there. My question is: Should I lightly crush the coriander even though...

I know this topic has been discussed before but I'm having trouble finding it through search. My question is, what are the effects of using more than 1.25-1.5 liters of water in the mash? I have a brew day with some friends coming up this Tuesday, and we are using a BIAB method where all the...

I woke up around 9am Christmas morning with a stomach flu. I got to spend Saturday and Sunday in bed shooting festive Christmas juices all over the place! :mad::drunk: Hope everyone's hollidays turned out better than mine did! Mark K.

Hello everyone! I have returned from my long hibernation :mug: My question is as follows: I had started a half batch (2.5 gal) of Edwort's apfelwein in my better bottle to the order of about one year ago. During this period I got caught up with finishing my degree and other career based...

I'm currently making four, one gallon test batches of apfelwein using different yeasts to see which my girlfriend and I prefer. The catch is I accidentally added a little under one tablespoon of yeast nutrient to two of the one gallon batches instead of one teaspoon. I'm probably closer to 2 or...

Coming back to the 1.086 wheat monster I inadvertently created. I have been checking the gravity each week to track the progress and surprising enough, it has actually fallen under 1.02. In fact, it is down to 1.012 and still bubbling. The fermentation seems to finally be slowing at an...

I'm coming up to my next brew which I will be doing outside. The catch is, it's going to be no higher than 25 for the next two weeks. What tips do you all have for outdoor brews in the dead of winter? The thing that concerns me the most is maintaining temps during a partial mash.

My current brew is finishing up in primary and I'm choosing to rack it into secondary and batch prime it/condition, then bottle and let it finish conditioning. My question is how should I go about batch priming? Should I just go ahead and dissolve the needed dextrose for X volumes CO2 for my...

My girlfriend and I were curious about making dandelion wine. While I can find many recipes for the wine, I want to know where to get dandelions. I would figure (from brewing beer) that you can't just pick them as they will most likely have wild yeasts and bacteria found in nature on them. If we...

I'm probably not going to be brewing in the house again. Lets not get into that. Either way I'm working with extract/partial boils right now and I'm SUDDENLY in need of a propane burner so I can brew outside. I'm only doing about 3 gal boils and using two gallons as striking water for the...

Here is my situation: I made an extract version of a light wheat beer recipe I had found with good reviews. What I needed for the extract version was as follows. 3lb Bavarian Wheat DME 3.3lb Light LME 1.5lb Light DME (ended up using Pilz) I decided to go ahead and use the entire bag of the...

Merry Christmas everyone! I have been lurking the boards for just over two weeks in preparation to my first real (extract) brew. I'm planning on my first 5gal batch for tomorrow, the day after Christmas. I'm 23 and a senior at Eastern Michigan University with a major in Marketing/Creative...

Batch one finished, moving on to... SPACE BERRIES! I'm looking for some good Strawberry Blond recipes. I have found a few that sound promising but they would have to be converted to extract (still new, still prone to muck ups). The thing is, although I want the strawberries to be noticed and...