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I have done a partial mash extract IPA and have fermented it successfully. OG was 1.070 and FG was 1.010. Somewhere around a 7.8% ABV. I tasted the beer after it reached FG and it does not have any hop flavor or aroma! The hop bill was 2oz centennial at 40 min, 1.5 oz at 20 min and 2oz of Kent...

I have about 5lbs of blackberries and want to make a blackberry wheat beer. How do you make sure that the berries are sanitary prior to using them. I know I could steep them in my wort, however, I know that would release pectins into my beer that would cloud up the beer and would also change the...

I recently made a batch of wit beer and everything went great with the brew. I added a vial of white labs yeast to the fermenter and within hours had one of the most vigorous fermentations that I have ever had, which lasted all through the next day and overnight. When I woke up in the morning, I...

I have drank two batches of brew so far and both times I have had extreme diarrhea. Is it the yeast? Do I need to filter the beer before kegging it? Anyone else have this happen to them?

I just took my first drink of my second batch, a raspberry wheat beer, and it is great! It has a great smell with a faint raspberry nose to it. The taste has slight notes of banana and clove with a slight berry taste. The hops are there, but not overpowering and it has a little bit of bitterness...

Anyone brewing locally that I could bounce ideas off of? I just got started brewing and in fact will be doing my first batch in about a week. I am working on making my wort chiller right now. Also I still need to wire up my temp regulator to my kegerator. I am using a keggle that i made for a...

I am starting to brew for the first time and would like to do a Hefe. Does anyone have a good Hefe kit that they would recommend?