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Thank you very much for the responses! I knew I could count on this community for help. I'm not familiar with the DuPont strain, but store owner basically said other customers had achieved almost 100% attenuation. We'll see. No worries!

Hello All, I'm brewing today (hooray!) and am trying a yeast I've never used before. Its a blended saison yeast. Information below: ---- Old World Saison Blend A characterful blend of two classic Saison strains. Produces complex fruit and black pepper notes along with a reliable, fast and...

Yes, that is the correct yeast. Thank you for the advice. My concern isn't really with the yeast, rather with other particles floating around in the beer. My concern was that, if the yeast aren't flocculating, it may leave a lot of this other material in the beer, and yield something that may...

Hello, So, it haaaas been a while since I've been active on this site. Had to step away from brewing due to some serious adulting. At any rate, I think I might finally be able to start brewing again, and just did that today. Yeah! I'm using (Lallemand) Danstar's Munich Beer Yeast and it's a...

For hops, I liked Perle for bittering or Chinook. For yeast, I'd suggest White Labs California Ale Yeast. For the one West Coast Style IPA I made, I used that yeast and combination of Chinook (bittering) and Ahtanum (aroma). Hope that helps you.

It's a pretty wild first recipe, but hey, go with it. My only piece of advice is to be prepared to take a lot of notes (especially given the recipe you're brewing), and take some time to reflect on the whole process to see what worked and what could have worked better. My first recipe was a...

Where has this post been all my brewing life? Thank you for putting this up.

Interesting...wonder how long before commercial labs get a hold of it?

I would say partial mash brewing and/or extract is maybe the best way to start. Porters are extremely forgiving styles and fairly versatile, so you inadvertently chosen a great style of beer to start with! You'll need some kind of fermentation vessel, a kettle of sorts to cook everything, and...

What kind of brewing are you looking to do? Extract? All-grain? Do you have equipment?

Thank you for writing this. People really don't take the effects alcohol seriously enough. Booze is fun and enjoyable, but definitely not a toy. With the explosion of the brewing culture in the USA, people rarely talk about the impacts of trying to keep up with the innovative new brews. As...

I'd just give it a try. If it doesn't work out the way you'd like, just a make a note of that and try again.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I'm off to the lab now to plot the next brew.

Good suggestion all around, and much appreciated. I will dissent from the hoppy beers view partially, because I think that hoppy beers lose "hoppy flavor" but still age differently from less hoppy beers. I agree with you, and I have a book that compiles a lot of old out-of-fashion recipes...

I could leave it in a carboy, but I'd more likely be bottling first if possible. I don't want to have to worry too much about the beer once things are hectic.

Hello, About 5-6 months from now I'm going to be entering a period where I'll simply be too busy to brew. Probably until next spring. Brutal, I know. Knowing this though, I'd like to brew a few batches in advance of this maelstrom and I'm looking for suggestions for beer styles (ales only...

Thanks for this post. I've definitely had trouble with mash efficiency when brewing bigger beers, and appreciate the tips!

Columbus would probably work, but if you wanted to be daring you could try Ahtanum.

I'll probably be (lovingly) criticized for this, but I don't really pay much attention to ambient temperature. I simply stick my primary/secondary in a closet/corner, where it's out of the way, and leave it be until it is ready to be bottled. I brew according to what the seasonal ambient temps...

I come on here all the time. HBT is one of my top sources to help learn about brewing, and thanks you for helping add some information to make it a bit more user friendly. There's an extraordinary amount of information on here, and this article does help get through it all.