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This is probably the third recipe I've done all on my own and I'm having some problems. I would like to make an American IPA, and I feel I've got a pretty good recipe going, but Beersmith says that my OG and ABV will be low for the style. Here's what I've plugged in so far: Pale malt (2 row)...

Still fairly new to making my own recipes but here's what I have for a red ale I'd like to make. Let me know what you think: Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.047 Final Gravity: 1.010 IBU: 19 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60...

This is literally the first recipe I've ever created all on my own and I'm interested in some feedback. 17 lbs Maris otter 1 lb Pale Malt - 2 row UK .5 lb caramel/crystal 1 oz admiral (90 min) 1 oz East Kent Goldings (45 min) .5 oz fuggle (30 min) .5 oz Fuggle (10 min) Wyeast 1318 -...

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I have a fermentation chamber that I built at the end of the fall and it has worked great. Being in the winter, and being that I keep it in my brew room located in my garage, I did not really have a need to have anything to cool down the cooler, and the fermwrap I have in there worked great. Now...

I brewed a Scottish wee heavy extract in January and bottled it about two and a half weeks ago. Poured one last night and it was carbonated reasonably well and tasted good, but had zero head. Ferm temp was between 65 and 68 degrees in my basement, did not rack to secondary. same temp after...

I'm doing my first all-grain batch RIGHT NOW. I'm at the re-circulating stage and my false bottom is clogged with grain and no wort is coming out of the mash tun. suggestions???

Hey there! Headin west from Indiana to Montana this summer and SWMBO asked if there were any breweries I'd like to stop at on the way. Any suggestions? Three Floyd's is always at the top of my list.

I play in a rockabilly/psychobilly band called Sour Mash Kats in Midwest Americaland and was curious if that kind of music was still popular at all over there. We sound a little like The Meteors, the Ramones, and Carl Perkins. If you're interested in checkin us out, head over to...

Just moved to a new house and a small chest freezer was left behind. Decided to turn it into a fermentation chamber to free up room in the house. Got the STC-1000, wired it up, tested it, works fine. I didn't have anything fermenting, but did have some hard coder to bottle. So after bottling, I...

I just brewed 10 gallons of pumpkin ale for our housewarming party on October 19. We are moving to the new house the week of September 20. I am packing all my beer stuff up now but am debating whether I need to leave it out to bottle at the old house, or risk traveling with 2 fermenters full of...

I brewed a Scotch ale extract kit from northern brewer last night. Got out the yeast pack about 12 hours before brew time, smacked it a few times and let it sit. This is the first time I'd ever used a smack pack and was unaware that there was a pouch that was supposed to break (not the best at...

I've been doing some research and i'm still really confused how some of these temperature controllers work. What I want to do is use an old fridge as a fermentation chamber and keep it at a steady temperature. I've checked out the Elitech STC-1000, the Johnson Controls digital thermostat...

Found this recipe somewhere a while ago. Thinking about trying it out, but want some advice on it. I'm still an extract brewer, and have only ever done kits so this would be my first recipe that I've tried. Thanks for any advice. Recipe (word for word) after next line...

If my plastic fermenting buckets smell like beer, will that affect the taste/smell of future beers that get fermented in that bucket?

Here's A picture of 4 different beers that I have brewed. An amber ale, a scotch ale, a cherry wheat, and a spiced amber. They all look the same to me. Anyone else find that as a common thing? They all tasted different, it just bothers me (for no particular reason) that they all look the same.

So I've been making beer for almost a year now and my wife wants me to make some mead. Is there anything I wouldn't already have that I would need (besides ingredients) to make this happen?

So I've been watching the show Brewmasters for the past couple days and I've noticed that, in almost all their beers, Dogfish Head puts either extra honey or extra sugar in their boils. Is this just for a higher ABV? And I'd so, is it something you can do with just about any beer? How much will...

Hey guys. Doing a cherry wheat using a brewer's best weizenbier and 3 pounds of cherry purée. Brew day went well. OG and FG were right where they needed to be. Took a sample today to see if alcohol content had changed at all and took a taste. Could've been cause it was warm and flat, but it...

Hey all. Got a Brewer's Best PSA IPA kit for xmas that I brewed a couple days after xmas day (don't remember when exactly). Seems like it might have been doomed from the get-go, but I'm lettin it ride to see if it's ok. First problem I encountered was with my boil; I thought I'd have enough...