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Brewed an IIPA last night and we originally set out to have a big beer with an OG of 1.084. We used 11 ounces of mostly whole hops. After cooling and aerating we used about a gallon of top off water to land at 5 gallons and took an OG reading and it was about a 1.071. I can't figure out why we...

I was just getting ramped up to start building a brutus single tier brew stand so I can go all grain and was about to get steel ordered and get rolling on the project and literally 2 days ago my father in law had acquired an old hydraulic pump testing table. He said he really didn't have much...

I Am bottling my IIPA tonight and see all sorts of different sugars you can use for priming. I could not find corn sugar at the grocery store so bought corn syrup. Now I see it has vanilla added. Do you think I should use regular table sugar instead or will the corn syrup be better? Thanks!

Here they are hard at work!

Racked the caskarillo into the secondary over an ounce of homegrown cascade and some amarillo beauties!

Now this is a beautiful site! WLP001 doin work on the IIPA!!

So I am making a Double IPA this weekend and thought I would bounce the recipe off of a couple HBT'ers. 1.5 lbs of Crystal/Caramel 10L Steeped for 30 min at 150 8 lbs of Pale LME 1.650 lbs of Wheat DME Since I love the flavor/aroma of Amarillo and Cascade, my hops are as follows...

I recently acquired this stainless tank and thought maybe I could use it as a fermenter. I would bet it to be somewhere around 30-40 gallon capacity. All I could find on it was that it was a "Trim Squirt Accumulator". From what I can find on the web, a trim squirt accumulator was used in the...

I recently acquired this stainless tank and thought maybe I could use it as a fermenter. I would bet it to be somewhere around 30-40 gallon capacity. All I could find on it was that it was a "Trim Squirt Accumulator". From what I can find on the web, a trim squirt accumulator was used in the...

These are my first year hops. I planted two cascades and two hallertau hop rhizomes in late may. I live in central MN and am quite happy with the yield given the fact that I wasn't expecting much from what i've read on here regarding first year hops! I am brewing a blue moon type clone...

Hello Brewers... Just a quick question about priming. I have 10 gallons of beer that is ready to be bottled. I built these recipes rather than buying a kit in which comes with Priming sugar etc. One is an English Mild and the other is along the lines of a Blue Moon except I up'd the ABV...

So I decided to brew two different recipes at the same time so I would make twice as much beer with essentially one mess. Well with one batch i wanted to add crushed coriander seed and lemon peel and when I got down to the 5-10 min left of the boil I was adding all the flavoring/aroma hops to...

So I wanted to come up with a summer ale that is nice and easy to drink as well as very refreshing on hot summer days. I have made a pretty phenomenal Blue Moon clone that turned out great but I wanted to tweek the recipe a bit but keep it along the same lines as the Blue Moon Clone recipe. I...

I know I am a little late in getting these in the ground but we had some frost advisory's the last couple days in MN and it is still May so I should be ok....right?? I was finally able to carve out enough time last night to get them in the ground. I planted 2 rhizomes of Cascade and 2 rhizomes...

So I have a glass carboy that came with one of these rubber stoppers that the airlock slides into. My issue is this, after I get the carboy all sanitized and the beer racked over, I have the hardest time getting the stopper to hold in the carboy. Especially if i've dry hopped and I get some of...

Hello Homebrew World! I am posting today in hopes I can come up with a recipe to use up 5 lbs of Muntons Extra Light DME. I had originally bought these to build a blue moon clone but changed my mind on the recipe after I found a more accurate one. So I was hoping that someone would have a...

I have just kegged a Moose Drool clone (Caribou Slobber) and I have always bottled my homebrew with good results. I have never kegged before but recently came across a couple vacant corny's to use. My question is getting these carb'd. I have read numerous threads regarding this and am a bit...