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Messed up my brew routine today and added my LME to the pot immediately after steeping my specialty grains. Took 20 minutes to achieve a rolling boil. Anyone know what the affect would be of adding the LME before boiling instead of adding upon boiling?

I have a Midwest liberty cream ale kit ready to brew tomorrow. It is extract and I am going to use the late addition method with my LME so I can get the right color. The original hop schedual is 1 oz 7.3AA Cascade @ 60min 1 oz 7.3AA Cascade @ 5 min I am fairly new at using the late extract...

So I had recently bought the liberty cream ale kit from Midwest and my friends loved it and I want more. I'm not trying to pay for all the shipping charges for the ingredients. I have everything I need to know for the recipe except what grains they gave me. They came in an unlabeled bag. Anyone...

So far I have made an English pale ale, IPA, 2xIPA, APA, and a bells Oberon clone. All of these have turned out fantastic. The problem is many of my friends are sheep and mainly drink piss-like commercial beers. I have grown tired or watching their facial reactions when thy take their first...

Looked through previous threads and couldn't find a real answer for my question... I pitched 1 vial of WL 001 into my 1.064 OG IPA 2 batches ago. I did not make a started (changed my ways) so I know it was under pitched. It took about 36 hours for fermentation to start, which I understand...

So I decided to brew a 1.068 SG IPA this week and I aerated and cooled my wort correctly so I know that this is not the problem. This is my first time using White labs yeast. When I opened the vial after shaking I receive as nice yeast burst from the top and a small amount of yeast was not...

I plan on starting an IPA this week and I have 3 oz of cascade hops I am trying to get my best use out of them. My question is: should I use 2 oz in the last 5 min of the boil and 1 oz for dry hopping..... or 1 oz in the last 5 minutes of boiling and 2 oz for the dry hop? Here is what I have...

IPA's are by far my favorite beer and really excited to get cooking on this one. My first attempt creating a recipe from scratch is as follows: Rebuttal IPA Method: Extract Style: American IPA Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons Boil Size: 3 gallons Efficiency: 70% Original...

IPA's are by far my favorite beer and really excited to get cooking on this one. My first attempt creating a recipe from scratch is as follows: Rebuttal IPA Method: Extract Style: American IPA Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons Boil Size: 3 gallons Efficiency: 70% Original Gravity...

I am currently a home brew noob in training. I am getting my kit and ingredients tomorrow for Christmas and breaking it out ASAP. I have probably over researched the entire process and was wondering if the extra work it takes to use a glass carboy as my primary would be worth the effort. Keep in...