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I'm a bit pressed for time and want to force carb while dry hopping so that I can get some more contact time with the hops. The keg is going to be poured at a large event, and I wanted a 5 day dry hop. Is there a problem with leaving the hops bag in the keg during carbing and serving? Right...

Made the 2XIPA from Brewing Classic Styles and loved the smell and taste of this batch, but after two weeks in the bottle, this thing is a notch above still. I've never had this happen before and I'm a little perplexed. The only difference from my usual procedure is that rather than bottling...

I was intrigued by talk of newer IPAs focusing on aroma over a bracing bitterness. However, a lot of the ones I have sampled recently have been distinctly sweet with an aroma I can only define as "Jolly Rancher" candy. The smells were over-the-top fruity and lacked any real bitter backbone- is...

Hi All, I'm about to bottle my first batches of 1gal mead (wildflower and a cranberry mead) and would like to carbonate them, but don't know if there are special considerations. Do I approach this just like bottle conditioning a beer? Does the yeast I used (EC-1118) call for any special...

This is a bit of early planning, but I'm thinking about brewing saisons when it gets warm enough. My first meads have just moved to secondary and the yeast, Lalvin EC-1118, cut through some very high gravity environments to ferment down to 1.000 and below. Now I'm wondering if I can use a...

A friend donated much of his brewing equipment because he was moving, including a fermentation bucket. I was excited to use the bucket (only have carboys) to try out the open fermentation hefe from a BrewingTV episode, skimming and saving yeast from the krausen, etc. My concern is that he has...

I'm in love with the idea of a wooden mash paddle, but do you guys find it really useful? Right now, I'm doing a lot of 3gal batches so it's not likely that I'll be stirring 20lb+ of grain any time soon, so my metal spoon has felt more than adequate. However, now that I've switched from BIAB...

Hi All I just got a kit as a gift which included Windsor dry yeast. I've only ever used Wyeast/White Labs yeast before and used a starter each time. I read somewhere starters are actually not advised for dry yeast- is that right? Has anyone ran into a problem or big success with this yeast?

Hi All, I received a NB White House kit as a gift and in looking over the recipe, there's a lot of descriptions about how sweet this beer is. I'm not a fan of very sweet things, so I'm wondering if any of you had experience with this kit? Also, any ideas about ways to change this up a little...

Hi All, I recently made the oatmeal stout from Brewing Classic Styles as a 3gal BIAB. OG was 1.056, pitched a Wyeast 1098 with no starter (eh?) and it went to sit in my 62º basement. Tested it at 5 days, and gravity read 1.024. It was 1.024 again at 1 week, and then 1.024 after it sat for...