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Hi there - after a couple years of gentle cleaning, decided to give my trusty 10 gal aluminum kettle a good cleaning and re-passivate. Used a small amount of oxiclean free and some scrubbing (didn't soak). Looked good, so rinsed well, filled with 8 gals of water and boiled for 30 minutes...

Was grateful to receive my first medal (silver) recently for a Helles, based on Jamil's Brewing Classic Styles recipe. Pilsners and other lagers have also come out very tasty. Low-hopped beers in general? Fine. IPA's? Harsh and astringent. I generally brew all grain, batch or no-sparse...

Added Fermcap S to my 6 gal better bottle last night to control foaming during oxygenation with an air pump. Probably second guessing myself, but I may have added 16-17 drops instead of 11-12 (suspicious I doubled one dropper accidentally). Given the FDA guidance on this stuff, would you: 1)...

Friends - I have about 1/2 keg of a blonde ale - basically a low gravity MO-syrup test beer I made to see how our extremely hard tap water in the new house performed in the brewery. It's fine, just boring and a bit on the bitter side because what little late Citra I had in there has long since...

Distinguished brewers: Been brewing for a couple years now, have fairly good processes (sanitation, temperature-controlled fermentation chamber, air pump for aeration, utilize starters, full-volume boil, etc). In general, I much prefer to drink the beers that result from using an all-grain...

My Cousin in Law is looking for something amber colored, relatively clean yeast profile, and balanced between hoppy and malty. A nice Vienna lager came to mind, but my chest freezer is doing full-time keezer duty these days, so I don't have the ability to hold temps in the low to mid 50's...

Question for this awesome community: brewed a relatively simple, all-grain APA based on my house IPA with lower gravity, lower hop load, etc. Decided to make it a bit more exciting with some dry hopping. It's been on the hops (~72F, 1 oz each of simcoe, citra, and cascade) for about 4 days...

Edit - tasting notes were cut off. Should say "Lots of 'warm bread crust', a little bit of toffee and a clean, pleasantly-bitter finish." Also - "Biiter"? Yikes...can't type. Fermentables: 9.50 lb Warminster Floor-Malted Maris Otter (95%) 0.50 lb English Extra Dark Crystal (5%) Hops: 1.25...