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Ill be taking g my brew system outdoors and start using a keggel looking for recommendations for a burner that can run natural gas and be sturdy enough for a keggel, I'll mostly do 5 gal batches but the occasional 10 will pop up from time to time

Beer is in keg and carbed, came out kind of sweet any way to add flavor or bitterness

So I brewd a 5 gallon batch about 6 daus ago. It called for Columbus 13.4 AA, Fuggles 3.9 AA, and Kent Goldings 4.5 AA. This is what the home brew shop had, Columbus 19.4 AA, Fuggles 4.3 AA, and Kent Goldings 5.6. After looking at the recipe and taking note of the IBUs I pluged the info I had...

Here is a recipe i have for an ESB Amber not sure about hop additions. 11lb German Pale Ale 2lb German Munich Light 1/2Lb Crystl 70L 1/4 Lb Aromatic Bittering hops columbus 13.9 AA 60 min Finishing hops Fuggles 3.9 AA 15 min Finishing hops kent Goldings 4.5 AA 2 min Yeast...

I have a larger in my fermentation chamber. been there three weeks. I was expecting the beer to finish at 1.014 to 1.016. it only got to 1.020 (og 1.052 and yeast is wlp800) I contacted white labs trouble shooting and was advised to start diacetyl rest for three days at 65f. They stated that the...

So on my last two batches of ale I decided to take the advice of countless members of HBT and not do a secondary fermentation, and even after all of my concerns things turned out well. well Im about to do my first larger hopefully a pilsner (if I can find a simple recipe ) Any way I was...

Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Safale-05 Yeast Starter: Hydrated Dry Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 Original Gravity: 1.064 Final Gravity: 1.010 IBU: 67 Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 Color: SRM 9 Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10 days at 62-65 degrees Additional Fermentation: Crash...

Just got a recipe book called 200 clone beers. All the recipes have extract and all grain procedures. I plan on brewing the all grain most of the time. In the all grain directions most of the brews say to mash at one temp for a certain amount of time then bring the temp up for another x...

Was wondering about sparging. I ve done two all grain batches soo far and I use a HLT with a tube at the end for sparging . Looking to see what others do was thinking about batch sparging but not sure about the correct technique

I just did my second all grain ipa 9.5 2 row pale malt 1.0 crystal 0.5 melanoidin 1oz chinook 1oz cascade 1oz centennial mashed at 152f for 75 min sparg at 170f took abot 40 min to yeild about 6.5 gal my og should have been about 1.062 i got 1.042 what should i do or what shouldnt i do

I have done about 5 extract batches and in the process of my first all grain, a pale ale. I am on day 4 of primary in a 5 gal plastic fermentation bucket . I plan on checking the wort on day 5 or 6. Ill use my hydrometer and record the readings. when the readings don`t change for about 2 days...

what a great place to learn about brewing. I did my first few batches about twenty years ago maybe about four or five extract batches. they never came out that good, plus bottling was a pain in the butt. Fast foward 20 years I decided to put together a kegorator and get back into it , kegging...

Just did my first all grain. A pale ale 5 gal batch. 9lb of grain. My gravity reading was higher than expected. The owner of the brew shop told new to expect about 1.045 to 1.054 I came in at 1.062. The wort tasted better than expected I think it will be one if my best beers yet. Also...