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Brewed my first all grain wheat beer last night and my OG came out terribly low at 1.031 4 pounds Malted Wheat 4 pounds Pilsner Malt .5 pounds Aromatic Malt .5 pounds Munich Malt Mashed for an hour at 152 and used all proper volumes. I knew wheat presents an issue with mashes, so I used a...

I just (very eagerly) cracked open the first bottle from a batch of Barley Wine i brewed up. I know this style of beer should be aging for quite some time before drinking - this has only been in bottles about 6 weeks, but nonetheless I wanted to try it relatively young. So I popped one open, and...

I'm entering my first Homebrew competition. A local brewery here did a random drawing of beer styles for the competition and Strong Ale/Barley Wine was selected. They've acknowledged the obvious that these beers prefer aging, but they want it submitted in about 6-7 weeks. In an effort to brew...

Hey all - mind helping a newbie to cider out with a question? if the juice i'm using to make a cider is pasteurized, then isn't the wild yeast killed and therefore there is no need for campden tablets? Or is there still some wild yeast kicking around i should take care of? :mug:

So I picked up a lot of extra Amber DME by mistake. Sitting on about 5 pounds of it. Looking to build a recipe off it and put it to use, but most of the recipes I found use Amber DME as a supplemental malt not the backbone of the recipe. Any suggestions? Extra credit for anybody with a...

As anybody ever brewed with figs?!? I'm OBSESSED with these dried organic figs from Costco, every time I chomp into one I think "Beer, this needs to go in a beer"... So I want to brew with them. I'm thinking a Brown Ale maybe or a Belgian perhaps. Either way my question is: when should I...

K, a tad bit nervous. My IPA was in primary for 2 weeks, racked it to secondary a week ago today, and now it's damn near black. Very dark, still an amber glow of sorts "behind the black" color but it looks nothing like it did a week ago, and most importantly nothin like an IPA. The sample I...

So I'm 5 batches deep in my young homebrew career. I'm doing everything stove top, including full 6+ gallon boils for my LME batches (7 gallon kettle, yup I wait for that ***ch to get boiling) and all grain 3 gallon batches. I'm in a high rise apartment complex so space is at a premium and I'm...

Any suggestions on what to add to a GF recipe that will give it that ink black color of a stout? I'm trying to work up a GF Stout recipe - I plan on toasting my own oats and some buckwheat, also using some buckwheat honey.... I am missing an element in that list of fermentables though...

Hey all, First off the obligatory THANK YOU for all the awesome advice in these forums - I'm a 6+ months lurcher of these forums, 3 (technically 4) batches of my own brew deep, and first time poster. You all rock. My question: brewed up my 3rd batch today, an extract batch IPA with 1.5 pounds...