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About 10-11 months ago I made an 8 litre batch of barley wine that I sorta just left hanging around in the apartment. What can I say, I'm lazy. Anyways, I bottled a pale ale that I used WLP001 in today and left about 1-2 litres of beer on top of the yeast cake. Can I scoop up some of that...

I brewed a barleywine about a month ago. Things went a bit tits up, and I got an OG of 1.121 (supposed to be 1.083). Took a reading 2 weeks ago, and the beer had fermented down to 1.042. Measured again today, and it hasn't moved. I swirled the bucket a few times to try to rouse any yeast, but it...

So I've got some spare time on my hands, and I think "I'm going to brew a small 10l batch of something." How about a barleywine? Had a recipe that had 1.087 og, 9.2% abv, etc. Standard stuff, I guess. Now, I know my equipment setup in Beersmith 2 isn't exactly spot on, but this little bastard...

Just got two Wyeast 1056 smack packs in the mail, bloated. I'm brewing today, but I wasn't planning on using these two packs, but rather use US-05. Can I open the packs, make a "starter" (won't be getting much time to rev up) and pitch it, or should I just forget about them and use the Safale...

For my last two batches I've crushed them with a rolling pin. Two turns over with pretty much weight on the roller. Color and sugar definately have been extracted during steeping, but maybe I should be getting more? Should it look like this picture...

I'm brewing a "regular" IPA and a double IPA this weekend as my 2nd and 3rd brews. As I'm pretty darn new at this, I hoped some of ye olde brewers would have a look at my recipes and comment on anything that might be "off" with them. :) NB! Everything is listed in metrics Green Bastard...

Classic question here.. My APA is stuck at 1.023 after 10 days in the primary (measured after 7 days and after 10 days). Estimated FG in Beersmith is 1.012. I used 2,6kg Amber DME and 0,5kg CaraMalt 25l in an 18 litre batch. After cooling the wort, I pitched 2 packs of rehydrated US-05...

I'm a noob in all aspects when it comes to brewing beer. I've read quite a bit about it before I set into this, but for some reason I boiled the entire 20 (actually 24) litres of water I used for the boil. First warmed it to 70 deg.cel. to steep the cara malt, then boiled it all for 60 mins with...

Me and a pal recently (3 weeks ago) brewed a 5gal batch of Cooper's IPA. Foolish as we were, we followed the recipe on the can. In addition, we did a bunch of other rookie mistakes. It's still in the bottle, so we haven't had the chance to try it yet, but I suspect it's less than perfect... :P...