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I brewed a Barley Wine, which I plan to have on oak soaked in Zin for about 10 days to two weeks. I'm only using one oz of American light toasted oak chips because I'm not looking for a heavy oak taste, it's more for the slight complexity of the earthy oak tone with the wine that I am after...

I'm still doing extracts for now. Sometimes I buy a BB kit, sometimes I use a recipe. I usually use a liquid yeast and now have a few packs of Nottingham laying around. My first two brews were with Nottingham and they both had a flavor in the background I did not like. At the time I had no way...

I just brewed a kolsch with wyeast 2565 kolsch. I was shooting for an OG of 1.042-1.045. I got 1.040... oops. I'm hoping to get to 1.007. I usually do not brew anything under 6%, so this is my first smaller beer. Any experiences with how low this yeast normally goes to?

I want to do a Kolsch and an Altbier for October 22nd. I'd like to just brew both the same day and get it over with. I have a 6.5 gallon F.bucket, a 5 gallon carboy, and two 6.5 gallon carboys. I figured I would ferment one in the bucket, and the other in a 6.5g carboy. When I rack...

I have found all the threads on Wyeast 3724 saison to be very helpful. Mine started within 11 hours, airlock activity quit within 24 hours, I kicked it out to my shed (90 degrees) brought it back in, put it in an Igloo Ice Cube with a heat blanket, kept the temp at 85-90 degrees, and it...

I brewed a Saison ete I found in my friends Zymurgy Magazine. I do not do all-grain (yet!) so I did the extract version they had printed along with the all-grain. The extract version was a little strange in that it said to put 1/2 of the total DME and LME in the beginning of the boil, and the...

I brewed a very hoppy PA. I kept the fermentation temp low, airlock activity quit after a few days. I took a gravity reading 2 days after airlock activity and it was still dropping. I took a reading 2 days after that and it dropped another 5 points. The second (last) time, the smell was...

I brewed Friday and used Safale US05. I live in FL and my wort chiller did very little since the water out of the tap is not exactly cold. I got the wort down to about 78, pitched the US05, then put my primary in a water bath. I got the temperature to 65 (water bath temp) pretty quickly (well...

Why did I switch from beer to single malt whisky tonight?

I'm making a BB RIS, this is my third batch, ever. I am thinkig of adding vanilla beans and espresso to the secondary (I already posted about this today if you're interested to see how I intend to go about this). Anyway, The recipie called for OG 1.078-1.082. I accidentally got down to...