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Now that I am brewing mostly lagers, I have been playing around with decoction methods and feel that a simple single decoction would be less daunting to those wanting to try it out. I use a ten gallon cooler mashtun, with false bottom, and an eight gallon brew kettle for five...

For no sparge, 12 lbs 2row 6 oz wheat malt 1oz Sterling at 60 1oz Saaz at 30 1oz Saax at 5 90 minute boil OG 1.045 I wrote Jamie at Full Sail and he gave me the recipe. use 8.5 to 9 gallons of water. 4.5 for Mash, and 4.5 of 170 degree water, add all water after conversion, stir...

Bought my Holiday 5.0 fermentation "chamber" from Lowes today, 159.00 less 20.00 coupon. I plan on removing nearly two litres of wort after 15 minutes of planned 90 minute boil, chill it quickly and begin my starter with that. I plan on setting the starter and wort into my "chamber" at 50...

I have been battling chill haze. Bought a .5 micron filter and still get haze in filtered beer. I have great hot/cold breaks, chill quickly, etc. The last thing to try was cold crashing. Put the secondary carboy in fridge for a few days, still looked hazy. Put the carboy on the counter...

Also, since I am still fighting chill haze, they look so much more appealling. If I chill them down completely, it seems the malt taste gets masked somehow. Is it just me?

I have a favorite english bitter recipe that uses ten pounds of grain/5gal batch. I have a ten gallon mash tun, so was thinking of mashing double the grain bill, and dividing the wort into two before boiling to make two batces with one mash. I would run off say four gallons, then gently stir...

Trying to finish off a bag of Great western pale ale, and I have 5 one oz bags of Simcoe. Plan on Mashing 8 pounds of grain at 151-152 and plan on using 1/2 oz simcoe pellets at 60 45 30 and flame out Looking for any suggestions before tomorrow morning TY

I am starting to build up some crud in my knurls on my Barley crusher rollers, and tried a brass wire brush. I have been conditioning my grains before crushing, and love the results, but am noticing alot of embedded malt powder in my rollers. I took the hopper off and tried brushing with...

Hi all, just finished my 13th brew and got a chance to use a Refractometer recently purchased on Ebay. I paid 18.00 plus 9 bucks shipping from Korea. I was intimidated by the contraption until I tried it out. Turns out if you buy the one advertised for Beer making, there is a Brix scale and...

I just finished my seventh five gallon batch since resuming my brewing hobby. All my brews so far are all grain kits. None have OG of over 1.065, so this method I am proposing may not work for higher gravity worts. Rather than use a yeast starter, I hydrate and make a quick starter as...