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Have the ingredients for a Pale Ale, but was thinking about doing a small batch of something stronger tomorrow night. Any thoughts on this recipe for a 3-3.5 gallon batch? 11 lb 2-Row 0.5 lb Caramel 60L 1oz Columbus FWH 1oz Cascade 30min 4oz Cascade Flame-Out Safale US-05 152 Mash...

Hey folks! I have some leftovers from some brews last weekend and would like to make a simple but strong IPA. Any suggestions for a small batch (3-4 gallons)? Here is what I have on hand: 8lbs 2-row 1lb of Munich 0.5lb Crystal 60L 1oz Warrior pellets (15%aa) Lots of Cascades...

Brewed up a recipe from the Bell's homebrew website in early November. It's fantastic. I planned out to be 3 weeks conditioned for Thanksgiving, but it wasn't even close to hitting it's stride. 7 weeks in the bottle and its so good. The rye malt really shines with the hops (the Zythos in...

Just a quick question on something I don't undestand: A lot of people I know (and on this forum) rack onto yeast cakes from a recent batch, and I too have done this with success for big beers. Often times this has come from a single 11.5g packet of dried yeast. On the contrary, according to...

So its bottling day, and my capper broke on the first bottle. OH $hi@.... So I quick drove to my LHBS which is fairly close and bought a new one, but, the beer I had just put into bottles was sitting uncapped 1+ hour on my table. Does anyone know if there will be an oxygen effect in this...

Ok...I'm a brewing rookie! (Now that's out the way....) I'm brewing a 5-gallon IPA kit from my local shop. It's already in the primary, but I didn't realize my basement, where its sitting, is averaging 60-62 degrees. The slap-on thermometer is reading 64 pretty steady. Is this too cold? The...