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I'll have to agree with many others, 1318 is great. I use it in 50% of my beers. I find that it's especially good with my stouts personally.

I'm sure there are many issues with what I'm going to propose but.... What if you took a refractometer reading and a hydrometer reading. With these two measures I have calculated OG fairly accurately a number of times. Based on this observation I would guess that the concentrated beer would...

Hey hbt folks. Me and my wife are planning to go to the New England area (Mass. , Rhode island, dc, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire primarily). So we were wondering if there are any breweries up that way that we should not miss. We were thinking of Sam Adams, but some smaller ones would be...

So the reason that I went with the 2-row is that I have read that others have used MO in their RIS and they do not notice the MO since it gets blended into the other flavors of the beer (since there is so much else going on in there). Especially with the Munich supporting the malty portion of...

So I switched around the recipe and I think I'm going to pick up the ingredients tonight. I changed out one of the magnum hops for 2oz for glacier since that seems to do well in stouts and has high beta acids. I'm getting pretty excited for this one. Thanks for all of the feedback it's always...

Hey all, Thanks for the feedback. I think the only reason that I put in Chinook was because it was one that came to mind. I think Magnum will likely be a better choice. To explain some of my thoughts, first the yeast choice was because that's what I have on hand, plus it has pretty much become...

Hi all, I've been off HBT for a little bit but I'm glad to be back at it. I've got an RIS that I've been thinking if making but I wanted to run it past some other eyes to get a gut check from others. I'm not sure if the hips are the right choice but I think they might work well together...

Jeremy, that Saison looks AMAZING!!! ... Dont suppose you'd be willing to share the recipe would you? :-)

Hey bug. Since it has only been a day I would clean and replace the airlock. Chances are it might continue to do the same thing and if it tries to come out again it might clog the airlock. That would potentially be a bad situation. (Aka blowing the top off). Cleaning it and replacing it is...

Well it sounds almost like a FWH but did you put the hops in the bag with the grains? Then remove after the steep? If you did then it's more like a hop stand before the boil. ... don't know for sure but that's what it sounds like. What was the hop schedule anyways? Sent from my SCH-I535 using...

I'd call it beer.

I'd imagine that you could replace the 2-row to 5lb of light dme and steep the caramel. Probably would work.

Good to hear. One quick question, was it a pack of sugar that you used? Like a whole one provided by the kit? Or did you weigh it out? I've seen a lot of kits come with 5oz of corn sugar. Fairly common. That info with the volume of beer can let you know if it will be overcarbonated. Just an FYI.

Welcome to the forum and to the hobby!

Yeah if it is heavy with the carbonation now it will either stay the game or get more carbonated. In all seriousness how much sugar was it?. If it was more than 5 or 6 oz you could have exploding bottles. Plus 1.018 for a fg might be too high depending on the grain bill (ie if it has lots of...

You keep your house/apartment at 54deg? That's rather cold. If you have a warmer area put it there for a week then back into the cold room. 56 ain't to bad. Fermentation will be a bit slower but it will produce less of flavors. I wouldn't do 72 deg unless you were found a Belgian beer. Low...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/how-big-your-mash-tun-needs-123585/ This is THE thread for you. :-)

What I've read suggests that of it stays above 140 you will be fine. How many degrees do you lose per hour? That might give you your answer. If I did it I'd be worried if it got too 135. But above that I wouldn't fret much. It will likely be fine.

So as usual, life gut ahead of me and I just got around to bottling this beer. As it stands, hop character is almost unnoticeable. Balance is more on the malty side but altogether this beer is going to be great. I can already tell. If I would do this again I would not change the hop...

+1 for cheap vodka.