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So I have been looking for a good way to dry hop. Want something stainless, doesn't cost a fortune, can be used in the keg or fermenter. I have seen a lot of people use the tea balls/herb balls, but they are usually really small or if bigger wont fit in a corny. Enter the Kitchenaid herb/spice...

Got a wild hair today, couldn't brew, so let's make something.... 3 gallons of cider (used musselmans) 2 gallons great value Apple juice 1 lb dextrose 2 lb cover honey 2 1/2 lb red wheat It got weird, didn't think everything through. I mashed the wheat in a bag on stove top in juice. It came...

A friend gave me some hopped lme he had lying around. One was a Thomas cooper ipa, added to it a lb of amber dme and another lb of dextrose. Pitched it onto a cake of 1272 from beer I kegged today. The other was a John Bull American beer, I popped it open and saw it had crystalized, I got it...

So I have been all grain brewing for about 6 months, doing 11 batches. In not one of those have I even been close to target on gravity. I always hit my gravity when I was using extracts. Im pretty sure the issue is in my sparging. My setup is simple, heat water on burner, hand move the water...

I am a newb to water chemistry. I just got my water report from the city water plant. And I have read the primer stickied at top several times. But I'm not sure I'm reading the report accuratly. I'm not really looking for any style specific suggestions at this point, but more like anything in...

I have on tap a Dunkelweissen, a hoppy amber, and a porter. All three are fine beers. Ok but not spectacular. I just poured a bit of each in a glass and it is aaaaamazing! I want this beer are the time!!

This recipe is my leaning towards my idea of a my favorite beers, a nice west coast style Amber Ale. I love Fat Tire, but wish it had more hop on the pallet and nose. I made Revys Amber Ale, and loved it, just wish it had a little more mouth feel and was heavier on the aroma hops and not quite...

I want to clone Schmaltz brewing, Genesis dry hopped session ale. This beer is amazing. From their site, Malts: Specialty 2 Row, Munich, CaraMunich 40, Wheat and Dark Crystal Hops: Warrior, Centenial, Cascade Dry Hops: Centenial, Cascade, Simcoe Balanced between a west coast pale ale and an...

I want to combine Thunderstruck pumpkin ale with the Samhain Pumpkin ale. I came up with this.. 5 gallon recipe 1.064 OG, 1.016 FG, 6.4% ABV Pale 2 row - 7Lb Caramel/Crystal 60L - 2Lb Biscuit Malt - 1Lb Flaked Wheat - 1Lb Rice Hulls - 1 Lb 60oz of Canned Pumpkin, carmelized 1/4Lb Molasses 2...

So we did BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde as our first all grain brew. It went really well. I was freaking out a little because I thought I had to mash at 155 but could only get the temp to 150. But that is exactly where I needed to be lol. It was the first time using our Keggle we built. It...

So my brewing buddy's uncle gave us this tank. It's stainless, conical, appears to be around 7-10 gallons. I guess it was a sprayer of some sort. It was in an old abandoned building and very dusty. The inside is bone dry and has no smell. It has a long dip tube in the center and a port on the...

You can call me a wuss or what ever, I don't care. I just can't get over the real hoppiness of IPAs. Anything past like a 55-60 IBU rating and I just can't do it. I pucker up like the old bitter beer face.. The problem is I really want to like IPAs. I get one all the time to see if I will like...

It's huge, it's cold, and it was $200. I want to put 5 cornys of beer and another of carb'd water, but don't want to pay north of 600 bucks for a 6 tap tower. So I got the idea of building a box out of walnut and mounting the 6 taps inside the box. I was talking about this to my brewing buddy...