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I've come upon a first world home brewer problem and could use some help. I have a friend of a friend that runs an organic hop farm out here in Oregon and just received about 6ozs of experimental hops. I'm thinking its time to brew an IPA or IIPA. With that in mind I could use some help...

Took the plunge and am in the middle of my first mash, using a 10 gal igloo cooler for a mash tun. Based on the online calc I used heated strike water to 167 to hit a mash temp of 155. I put some water (didn't measure the volume) to pre heat my tun. When I finally had all of my strike water...

So I was going to make a white IPA (think chain breaker from deschutes) but I accidentally grabbed wyeasts 3191. I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on trying to use a sour yeast on this. Should I just go and get a wit yeast which is what I meant to grab, or see what happens? If this isn't...

Hey Guys (and Gals) I'm looking for a little feed back on an IPA recipe I'm putting together. I'm mostly wondering if its simply too many hops for the grain bill (and I'm born and raised in Oregon, so hops are my friend). 7# Light LME 1# Briess light DME .5# Cara-Pils .5# Crystal 10L Add 1...

Ok so I took a stab at putting together my first recipe after looking at a few online that sounded interesting. Would love some feedback as I kind of just winged it. Its an partial boil extract w/ specialty grains. #5 DME #1.33 American 2-row 8 oz Crystal 40L 4 oz special B 4 oz Honey...

I was raised on hoppy west cost apa and ipas in the pacific northwest. That being said I've never really been a fan of stouts and porters. But since I've gotten into home brewing I'm thinking I should give them another shot. at some point I would like to brew my own, but before that, I need to...

I know its the best way to confirm if something is done fermenting is to take gravity samples on consecutive days. That being said I've got an extract iipa that has been fermenting for about two weeks now and I'm still getting sporadic (a few bubbles maybe once an hour, if that often) activity...

So I was bottling my second batch last night and I'm concerned that I might have introduced oxygen into my bottles. The last time I bottled (AKA my first time) even thing came out very smoothly from my auto siphon. This time however, no matter what I seemed to do I was getting at least some if...

I've got a wit that based on the advice of my lhbs I put a blow off tube on. I'm a week and a half into fermentation and I'm wondering if there is any need or reason to switch to an air lock?

So my first beer (simple APA) has been in my secondary fermentator based on the directions I got from the brew shop that I got my supplies from. I've got some spare time this weekend and I'm getting an itchy trigger finger and want to get my second batch going. That being said I'm looking for...