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Hoping to find a home for my electric brewing project - I took it to about 90% complete, and like most of my projects, it stalled there. Includes a welded 3-tier frame, a controller box with a lot of the PID logic necessary for controlling the elements, plus 240V and 120V wiring, etc. Also...

This might be more appropriately posted in the recipe section, but I wanted to see if you guys had thoughts on a 3rd yeast to use in a split batch recipe I am going to do this weekend. My plan is to brew a 12 gallon batch and split it at least into two batches using Wyeast 1968 and the Wyeast...

All of my beers seem to lack malt flavor, and several judges said this for my two entries at the NHC this year. I don't think I have a good grasp of the flavors contributed by certain specialty malts, so I'm going to do an experiment. I plan to brew a 6 gallon batch similar to this: 10 lbs...

I brewed the well published PtE two weeks ago, and overall went well. Prior to going into the secondary, it was at 1.011 and tasted great, although quite bitter (to be expected). Just sampled it after 8-9 days of dryhyopping (prior to adding the last 0.25 oz of each of the 3 hops), and it is...

I made a PtE clone yesterday, and pitched about a 1/2 L starter of 1056. I plan on adding the 3/4 lbs of sugar after peak fermentation, mainly because I want to dry this beer out as much as possible. A lot of my beers end up sweet, and that's because I only started doing yeast starters...

I made this recipe from BMW: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/e3cbac9d/planet-scott-rectal-bleeding-dark-strong-ale Belgian Pale Ale 16 lbs, 0 oz Belgian Pilsner 8 lbs, 0 oz Amber Candi Sugar 2 lbs, 0 oz Clear Candi Sugar 2 lbs, 0 oz Briess 2 Row Caramel 60 1 lbs, 0...

I've been trying to create an Abita Purple Haze clone for my wife, but have failed pretty miserably on all attempts. I finally got around to reading the label on the Abita bottle last night, and noticed that is actually a lager, made from pilsner and wheat malts, with raspberry puree added...

I brewed my first Belgian beer ever: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/1b0e6a81/shoultzmeyer-brewery-gold-is-strong I pitched a vial of WLP570, with no starter, to a 1.078 Belgian. I was curious to see what this alledged "underpitching" would do, especially since I added the...

I've got a Belgian Strong Ale in the fermenter, and I think I am going to keg it. I have room in the kegerator to serve it and cool it for an extended period of time. I know a lot of people bottle high gravity beers, but I have room to keg it and not worry about it for months. With that...

The idea of brewing with wet hops seemed really cool to me, so I tried two recipes recently: One was the Two Hearted clone with Centennial wet hops (bittering addition was dried before brewing) and one was EdWort's Haus Pale Ale with home grown Cascade hops. Both of them are cloudy and...

I want to brew up a raspberry wheat beer, and was hoping for any input on the following recipe. I will add about 1lb of raspberry goodness just after high krausen (blend 2-3 lbs of raspberries, then strain thru a fine mesh bag). I generally like fruit beers but only if there is not a strong...

I've been inspired by a premix soda dispenser that chicompany sells: I would love nothing more than to buy this, but at $400+ shipped, its difficult to justify buying something this much with no guarantee that it might not work in a month. With that said, has anyone ever constructed...

I love almost all Troegs beers, and noticed recently that they are one of the breweries that uses Pilsner as their base malt. In fact, I don't think I could find American 2-row as an ingredient in any of their beers. To that end, I am going to try a 2-gallon batch and split into two 1 gallon...

I was drinking a Loose Cannon IPA today, which is one of my favorite beers. I drank it alongside my recent Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Clone, and I noticed that the Loose Cannon was much maltier than my batch. It was a tasty, warm flavor, accentuating all of the hops in that brew. My batch tasted...

For those in the Central VA area - just wanted to post this link. There is a cool brewery called Blue Mountain that has a small hop garden in their front yard. From 12-4 this Thursday, they are having patrons harvest the hops, and I think if you last 2 hours, you get free lunch. Their beer is...

There have been a few threads floating around about converting wine coolers to operate at lower temperatures. I've looked thru all of them, but have a general question about temperature control units that operate wine coolers and mini fridges. The following two links are what my Magic Chef...

I royally screwed up an all grain brew last weekend, and wondered if anyone has ever added boiled wort to a 5 gallon batch a week after pitching. I used the following 5 lb general recipe: 10.5 lbs Americal Pilsner 2.5 lbs Munich 0.25 lb Crystal 20L 0.1 lb Chocolate 1 oz nugget at 60...

I've tried to read up as much as possible on water quality, and downloaded and messed around with Bru'n Water, but was wondering if anyone could quickly scan my Ward Labs report and let me know if I really need to treat the water to make Pale Ales. IPAs, and modest pale ales are about all I...

In the spirit of using less energy, and also because I'm lazy, I've been considering trying to chill my wort without running water or electrical input. I usually boil my wort up high on a table so my 1.5 year old son can't reach it. I just installed a weldless shutoff valve on my brew pot, and...

I always brew with my 1-1/2 yr old son, and he loves everything about it. He could stir a bucket of water with a carboy cleaner for hours. Anyway, I sort of jokingly asked my mom to make a mash paddle for us out of a mostly dead branch from a crab apple tree in her yard. She turned it around...