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I'm calling this one ***** Brown, it's a cross between the grain bill of Grand Teton's ***** Creek ESB with the hop schedule of Janet's Brown from Brewing Classic Styles. I was hoping for something with a strong malt base with a nice hop presence. What do you guys think? Ingredients...

Today I brewed my 8th BIAB batch and with each one I've been suffering from low efficiency. Today's recipe was a Belgian Quad from AHS, which was a 15.5# grain bill. My volumes were fine according to BeerSmith, but my preboil gravity was 1.066 instead of 1.081, and my OG was 1.082 instead of...

It's starting to get a bit cold in Southern California (queue anybody from somewhere that gets actually cold to call us weak) and I noticed that my fermentation chamber hasn't moved much above 62 in the last few days. I was looking into getting something to warm things up in there, but I was...

I started a 5 gallon batch of cider from a local orchard with some brown sugar and honey at around 1.070 SG and after 6 week's it's come down to 1.030 and stabilized. I talked to the owner of the mill and the cider did have a bit of sodium benzoate in it, less than a commercial dose but still...

Over the weekend I drove out to an apple orchard to pick up some fresh cider. It ended up being about an hour and a half drive due to traffic and when I got there I found out that the cider is unpasteurized but does contain a bit of Sodium Benzoate, less than the typical commercial dose of .1%...

So I've got an IPA that I kegged about a month ago (I don't usually drink slowly, but I've got a Blonde on the other tap that I've been favoring) and I've noticed that now almost all of the hop flavor and aroma that it had when I first kegged it is gone. There's about a third of the keg left...

I was planning on trying my hand at AG in a few weeks using the BIAB method. One of the recipes I was thinking of is from the Jamil/Palmer book "Brewing Classic Styles" and it states in the intro (or somewhere, I'm at work so I don't have it in front of me) that a mash out isn't necessary, but...

So I got home from work today and excitedly opened my closet to see if the Hef I brewed yesterday had started fermenting yet and saw this: Now, once or twice I've noticed that some foam came up through the air lock, but this time the air lock was blown completely off! Now, I've already got...

Today I brewed my 7th batch, one of the Austin Homebrew Anniversary kits, but I've been starting to notice a trend of having lower than expected OGs. The first 3 were pretty close, only about .005 or less off, but the last few have been about twice that. With higher estimated OGs I seem to...