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Alright so this was my second try at the pumpkin ale. First time I only ended up with 3 1/2 gallons of beer. This time I only did 60 oz's of pumpkin filling and made a bigger batch. I made 6 gallons this time and it looks great. I should get at least 5 gallons this time, check it out.

I don't have beersmith and just had a quick question. If i brew with 9.5 lbs of LME what will the ABV generally be, compared to if I use 8.5 lbs LME?

I made my first pumpkin beer on the 4th, pretty stoked about it. Made a starter for 3 days and made it with 5lbs of pumpkin filling. Most of the filling looks like it is settling out a little. When I go to rack it to secondary do I just siphon the beer off the top of the pumpkin( and loose like...

So I am going to make a pumpkin beer for this October. There is a good recipe in zymergy. It says to use "crook neck squash". Is there a difference in taste from a "crook neck squash" than a "yellow crook neck squash" or are they the same thing?

So I was reading on here the other day about someone likes to swirl his beer to get the yeast up off the bottom. So last night I tried that just a little bit, swirled it just a little and then the krausen started to drop out. It looked like white streaks down the sides of the carboy. Is that a...

I think its called krousen or something like that. I was talking with a guy that said you usually want to rack to secondary before that stuff comes down. I thought you want that to all settle down and settle out right. He was saying it could give your beer some off flavors, not sure if I agree...

I have an IPA I have dry hopped for about a week now. What is the best amount of time you should dry hop for. I was thinking of doing 2 weeks but if I'm not getting any more hoppiness out of it I would like to keg it asap. So what is the ideal amount of time to dry hop?

I would like to try and reuse yeast out of the primary when its done fermenting. Not sure how to do this. I rack all my beer from the primary to the secondary and then do I just spray some water in there swish it around and dump into a growler or something. Any info is much appreciated.:mug: