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I made a Pomegranate Wit a little less than a year ago, before I was able to do AG batches, so it was an extract batch. It ended up not turning out due to the introduction of fresh Pomegranates causing an infection. I could tell the beer had potential taste-wise, but most of it was flat, and...

I brewed a 2 gallon batch of an AG stout recipe I concocted over the last couple months. It consists of 7 different malts/grains/adjucts of British pale, flaked oats, chocolate malt, flaked barley, roasted barley, Black Patent, and black barley. I hopped it with an oz of Columbus and an oz of...

Finally after 4 weeks bottle conditioning, my Stale Pale Ale IPA is tasting mighty fine! It was my first AG batch using leftover hops. I used 5 hops, Magnum and Cascade for bittering, Willamette for flavoring, and Kent Goldings and Tettnang for finishing/aroma. It was a 1.070 wort attenuated to...

Finished my first AG batch of 3 that I am doing this weekend. It was my second overall AG batch. I have to say it went decently besides spilling wort all over the floor, water all over the floor, broke the kitchen faucet off (which also sent water flying!) and broke my hydrometer. I hit...

I just bought a decent amount of equipment to further my AG process. I only have one under my belt, and I am remedying the problem points. I am doing a temperature mash using direct heat instead of insulation (i.e igloo cooler) to keep the temp target. Surprisingly, my Kettle/MLT actually holds...

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I am just curious if anything OTHER than water boil off changes the gravity of the wort during the boil period. I brewed an IPA the other day, target OG was 1.067 @75% eff. I got exactly 5 gal 1.070 wort after mashing/sparging. My target batch...

Just finished my first AG batch. Everything went just fine except for my volume out of the mash tun after lautering. I was trying to get at least 5.5 gal, but only got 5. Target OG for 5.5 gal was 1.067@75% efficiency. I got 1.070 out of my 5 gal, so darn close. I will have to see what the OG is...

Is this enough space between the bottom of the kettle and the false bottom? It's about 5/16"

Yeah, it was a spendy purchase at $104 for a bottle, but I just picked up Brewdog's Sink the Bismarck. Now I have this and the Tactical Nuclear Penguin sitting in my cupboard waiting for me (and a couple others) to drink them. I figured we would never get them up here in Alaska, but apparently...

Ok, so I brewed an extract brew w/steeping wheat of a wit beer. Final gravity was 1.057. After fermentation with the 3944 Belgian Wit yeast, it took 4 weeks to drop down to 1.014. I then racked to secondary atop of 14 cups of Pomegranate Arils. This calculates, according to USDA, to about 333...

So I am going for a big black chocolate stout style. Not too dry with lots of roasty, creamy, and some balanced hop flavor/bitterness. High gravity brew in the 10% ABV range. 5 gal batch My grain bill consists of: 14 lbs pale 2 row 2.5 lbs roasted barley 2 lbs flaked oats 1.5 lbs flaked...

So after 15 days in primary, I took a gravity/tasting sample. OG was 1.059 and it is at 1.033 right now. It is the beginnings of a pomegranate wit using Wyeast Belgian Wit 3944. It has 6.6 lbs wheat LME, 1 lb clear belgian candi sugar, 1 lb steeped wheat malt, and juice from 2 whole...

So I have had this German Alt beer using 1007 yeast fermenting in the primary since December 16th at around 65 to 69 degrees. It has been over 2 weeks and I took the first post fermentation gravity reading today. The OG was 1.061 (seemed high to me) and the gravity now is 1.028. I am going to...

So I am not sure if it actually was yeast, or maybe just a little with the majority being krausen, but it definitely resembled yeast. Here's what happened: I pitched the yeast at about 78 degrees (I wanted to pitch lower, but I was dead tired and had to work in the morning. I don't have a...

So I bought my brother a gift certificate to our LHBS for a Christmas present. We went over last night and picked out a beer to brew. I have only done one other and it was a kit beer, so no grains. This one used 2 lbs Crystal 40L malt and .25 lb Chocolate malt. It is a German Altbeer. Mixed in...

Okay, we're off to the store to get our last few ingredients for our very first beer! With the kit we bought, we picked a Connoisseurs Nut Brown Ale. After doing some research, we decided we're going to add 1oz Willamette @ 60 mins (bitter) 1oz Willameeter @ 15(?) mins (flavor) And maybe...

We're all the way up in Alaska. There is such a strong beer culture here, I hope to find some more Alaskans up in this place. This user name will probably be used by two people - Adam and Lindsay. Adam just had a birthday on the 12th, and I (Lindsay) and his family pitched in and got him a...