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I have had a similar struggle. Here is my method which has helped me greatly. I live in St. Louis and our water here is very good but it is treated with chloramine. I filter my water very slowly (~1gpm) through an RV filter and add a crushed Camden tablet to my HLT and let it sit for a few...

Thanks, I appreciate that! Good luck on your brew day and let me know how it turns out! I should mention that after I shared this with more people I decided to leave the recipe as is. I found that it appeals to people who don't particularly care for "dark ales" (you know the type, the...

If they're unwilling or unable to send you beer due to shipping costs, distribution, etc. maybe they'll be open to sending you some smoked malt and various swag? I think it'd be cool to brew some beer with their smoked malt.

So, I had been trying to save this for our anniversary on the 16th but I just found out I'm losing my job in a couple of weeks. What a kick to the teeth! We've been drinking this beer now since I'm trying to avoid spending any money on anything (including store bought beer), and my other two...

Could be, but I only get it on light beers and I reuse the kegs batch after batch without issue. Frustrating to try and pin down.

I think the wireless speeds would depend on your router and wireless clients. I do not have gigabit fiber but you can review the speeds of other users on the ISP on ookla.com and dslreports.com. FWIW, if you have a router capable of 40mhz wide wireless N or A and you have clients that match...

My notes from the Pilsner shows that I added 1.6mg of calcium chloride and 2.5ml of lactic acid to my strike water for a chloride:sulfate ratio of just under 1.0. With regard to the off taste, it isn't that nobody else tastes it, it's just the beers I send to competition don't have it (which...

Well, my wife wanted to start drinking the keg, and I can't say I blame her, but it's about half full and I figured I'd better snag a pic since it cleared. I had to move the keg last night to swap out an empty from the back of the fridge so some crap got stirred up, but it's still pouring...

Thank you everyone for your feedback. I think I'll brew another light ale and just use RO water from the store. I think they post their chemistry on their website so I can just make additions as needed to get to the right ratios. If that doesn't work I guess I'll get new buckets and plastic...

Doh. Yeah, I got it backwards. I forgot darker grains are more acidic. I just had my water tested again and it only changed slightly so I believe it to be pretty stable, but I'm sure it fluctuates since our primary water source is the Mississippi River. I don't aerate with oxygen but I...

The only other thing I can think of is that the absence of dark grains is leading to a lower mash pH that I'm calculating I should be at, and somehow that is stressing the yeast. I don't have a working pH meter any longer and so I've been using these crappy strips that are impossible to read...

I brew 5 gallon batches. I use Mr. Malty to be sure I pitch sufficient yeast. I keep my yeast in the fridge, including dry yeast. I rehydrate when I use dry yeast. My fermentation schedule and temp depends on the yeast. For example, with US-05/1056 I've found that it's best to pitch around...

I'm an all grain brewer. I typically brew ales that are 10+ SRM. I filter my water slowly (about 1 gpm) through a KDF filter using a potable water hose from my sink and I add camden to my water to remove chloramines. I know my water chemistry and I use Kai's EZ Water spreadsheet to determine...

I think maybe we need Marshal and the Brulosophy guys to do an exbeeriment comparing a high mash pH brew with a normal mash pH. I'd be curious to see if using the same yeast strain with the same alcohol tolerance would result in a more attenuated beer.

I'd say you can call yourself an intermediate brewer when you can make consistently good beer and get your process down. Whether you brew all grain or not you're going to find that there are a lot of variables involved (i.e. temp control, pitching rates, water chemistry, sanitization, etc.) As...

I was in Trader Joe's the other day to pickup a bottle of their Golden Ale (which is brewed and bottled by Unibroue and very much worth the $5!) and look their other selection of beer. I noticed the little description written underneath it had a very brief note, "Very hoppy!". :confused: I...

I have a Kegco 542 (Beverage Factory) chrome dual-gauge regulator I'm looking to sell. I bought a new regulator b/c I kept getting a slow leak I couldn't pin down but it turned out it wasn't the regulator at all and it was this stupid leak stopper thing that the place I get my tank filled...

Been in the keg for a week now at 10psi at 37*F and it's pretty close to carbonated and starting to clear. I've pulled a few pints over the last couple of days to share with my neighbor, strictly for scientific purposes :D. I did not fine this or cold crash it prior to kegging, I wanted to see...

Oh, James Spencer from Basic Brewing Radio has a good pale ale extract recipe that is good. He calls it 15 Minute Pale Ale. http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=november-23-2015-15-minute-cascade-pale-ale

I'm an AG brewer as well, but I've been so busy with work and kids that I just don't have time to do AG brews very often. I've had good luck with Midwest's Liberty Cream Ale extract kit and I had decent luck with Brewer's Best kits if you can find some that haven't been sitting for a long time...