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I made a pretty good American IPA or American Pale Ale type beer and I'd like to marry that with a Belgian. The only Belgian I've ever brewer was from a Brewer's Best kit and it left a lot to be desired. The pale ale was my own recipe and featured Simcoe for 60, then Cascade for 20 and...

I guess this would be an American Pale Ale with a more reddish tint or an Amber Ale with a more reddish tint. I'm an extract brewer still, boiling usually 3 gallons and then adding 2 to make 5.

I'm just about to start brewing and I'm using centennial, cascade and simcoe hops during the boil and was planning on using more Cascade to dry hop. Should I dry hop when I put the wort into the fermenter or should I dry hop towards the end of secondary fermentation?

Looking for critiques and suggestions, just giving an ingredient list for American IPA 2.5 gallon boil, 5 gallon yield Steeping 1 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt 40L Boil ingredients 6.6 lbs Pale liquid 1 lb Amber liquid Hops Cascade 1 oz 60 min Centennial 1 oz 10 min Simcoe 1 oz 5 min...

on some HBT user recommendations. I see that the recipes are designed for a 6 gallon boil but my brew pot is not large enough. To start off my brewing endeavors I've been using the Brewer's Best kits which boil 2.5 gallons and add 2.5 more gallons of water to the fermenter after the wort is...

If I wanted to modify the recipe to take the alcohol content down a bit, what could I do? I assume it's adding less of the over 10 pounds of fermentables but which ones? I'm thinking the candi sugar gives it that unique Belgian flavor so i assume I want to keep that but it also has 3.3 pounds...

I just opened a bottle of my very first batch, a Brewer's Best IPA. Poured a great head on the beer, color looks good, not much aroma though and the flavor is good but I know it could be better. I've heard people talking about continuous dry-hopping...what can I do to improve the IPA and give it...

This is my second brew so I'm still using the Brewer's Best kits. Of course it comes with a yeast packet, but oddly enough the summary of the beer that's on the instructions, and also printed on the box says "the lager-like characteristics this ale is famous for are achieved by using liquid...

I've seen most people/books suggest using a dishwasher for this but my question is about dishwashing detergent and also something like Jet Dry. I assume you don't want either of those involved in this process. My dishwasher has a sanitizing feature and I can just choose not to put the...

Where do you store your fermenting and lagering beers? What kind of unit do you use that has good temp controls?

There are a ton on Amazon but I can't decide on one...was hoping for some recommendations

My initial reading was around 1.058 and after 4 days I popped the fermenter and it was 1.020. So I'm pretty happy with that. My question is this, since I just took a close look at the other measurements on my hydrometer and noticed one column with percentages from 0 to to 20 and "Potential...

Just boiled my first batch ever on Saturday, an IPA. It started bubbling about 20 hours later and instantly smelled like an IPA. It still smells but the bubbling has slowed. I know that a bubbling airlock doesn't make a good indicator of anything, other than CO2 coming out, but I want to...

I'm new to the homebrewing game. I have a Brewer's Best kit with two buckets, one for fermenting and one for bottling. Unfortunately my bottler bucket has a very very slow leak. But I plan on going from fermenting straight to bottling with an auto sipphon and the bottling wand and tubing that...