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I need a fresh set of eyes so to speak to help me figure out what's going on here. I had a keg of IPA and thought it wasn't flowing because of a clogged dip tube. After checking that and ruling it out I hooked up the quick disconnect to another keg which is working fine, same problem, there's...

Just planning my setup for a kegerator. Based on other's experience I'm going to use 4mm (approx 3/16") beerline. The taps Im looking at are 7mm (1/4") and 10mm. I can buy the appropriate adaptors from tap threads to connect the hose. My question is will that cause any problems to change...

Hey all, I want to make a beer with more focus on malt and less on hops. It fits very well in guidlines for an American amber but I think it has too less finishing hops to really fit that style. Maybe it's more of an esb? 65 % Pale Ale 20 % Munich 7 % C60 5 % Toasted Pale (15 min...

Toward the end of the week Id like to brew Yooper's Cali Common with wyeast 2112 smack pack, manufacture date 9th August. Because of the older package date Im getting some really large starters calculated. Im figuring to do a two step starter; 2L at 1.040 cool and decant, then 2L again and...

THere's a lot of talk about moving a 20 minute addition to FWH and leave the bittering hop there, and a lot of talk moving the 60 to FWH and having no bittering addition. So the plan is to brew the same pale ale 3 times and see what comes out of it (5.5 gallon batch). Here's the hop...

I brewed BM's Black Pearl Porter yesterday and while chilling the wort it developed this kind of skin on top, like fat in milk for example. Anyway I skimmed it off with a sanitized strainer and Im not concerned about the beer really (it's bubbling away). It's just bothering me, Ive seen that...

So I can't buy Marris Otter or Biscuit and/or Victory for that matter. Im looking at making a Newcastle clone and need to change my base malt from MO to something? Im thinking 60/30/10 with pale/munich/melanoidin. Any thoughts? I figure the munich will up my malt flavor and the melanoidin...

Any thoughts on my hop schedule for an IPA. I've never used Sorachi Ace, or for that matter made an IPA with only high AA hops like this. I want to try it as an experiment with FWH so basically Ill take the same hop schedule and brew again with the FWH moved down to a 20 min addition. It's...

I have a few ounces of Crystal hops and Im looking for ideas on where to use em. I mostly brew IPA and APA. Thought I might try them as a sub for tettnang in a blonde ale. Any ideas? CHeers, Mike

I just brewed this up 3 days ago. Im very curious how the combination of Nugget/Aurora will go with Amarillo/Cascade. I live overseas and don't have a multitude of American hops to choose from so it's more or less an exercise in making a hoppy red IPA with what I have available. I am...

Hey all, I got into brewing after recently moving over the pond. It was a no brainer to start brewing, a life without IPA...I don't think so. I had to go straight to all grain as well because of the availability of ingredients to make 'American Ale' style. 3 brews in (2IPA and 1 ESB), this...

I have a great IPA recipe I like and was thinking to make a rye version. Is it really so simple as replacing 15% of my Pale 2row with rye and add a bit of barley flakes? Also, if using roasted barley flakes should I keep the cara-pils or would the two create for over the top head retention...