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I'm having a good day. I used the 'easy partial mash' guide, changed my recipes for a 2-gallon IPA recipe (chinook + cascade + cascade whole hop dry hop), and mashed on my stovetop for 60 minutes at 153. I sparged in another pot at 175f for 10 minutes, and this is a picture from the boil. Ill...

My first PM oatmeal stout (Kenya Gold) turned out to be a pretty big beer (1.075) at 3 gallons. I nailed my temps on this one and used a yeast starter. I have never seen fermentation this vigorous! How do I recover from this? I know this isn't bad at all...its good, in fact, but do I remove the...

For my first two batches I bottle conditioned with prime tab conditioning tabs. I made a mistake with calculation of tabs because I bottled in 1L grolsch bottles, and my beers are coming out flat. Almost undrinkably flat. I fully intend to use priming sugar for my latest brews, and have it...

Just excited. My first batch I didn't measure gravities and I sort of bottled by sight and smell. I forgot to take a FG pic, but it measured right at 1.013. Poured beautifully brown and tasted fantastic. My OG was right around 1.039 (a bit short of the recipe, added too much H20). Cant wait...

Big brew day tomorrow, and the instructions call for steeping the grains in 2.5 gallons of water for 20 minutes, and then boiling with bittering and flavoring hops for ~1 hour. I suspect I will have less than 2 gallons left after an hour of boiling. Do I keep adding water to the boil or is the...