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I'm working my way into building a water profile for a pale ale using distilled water. I'm wondering if 4% of the grain bill is to much for acid malt. Is there another way to get my ph lower? What kind of tastes and such would you get from using to much? I'm finding it hard to find much info in...

I've come to the conclusion that my thermometer reads 10-12 deg. high. I bought a new digital to compare and when I get up to 153 my old thermometer is reading around 140 - 142. The new thermometer also reads dead on with the stick-ons on my carboys full of sanitizer. So, i'm wondering. I'm...

I have a scottish ale that started fermenting yesterday morning. Temp in my house is about 68 so I use a swamp cooler to get the temp down a few more degrees. what happened was I had the carboy oriented the wrong way so I moved it so that I could see the thermometer on the side. There was a big...

Looking for some guidance on my tap water. I'm currently using bottled water using the primer located in a sticky here (adding cal. chloride and acid. malt) however being the cheapskate I am I'd really like to use my tap water for cost savings. Here is what the water department emailed me...

I'm looking for opinions on a method I use. I've been doing BIAB for the last year or so, an expert by no means. Reading alot about efficiency and people missing their numbers, mashing for 15 minutes, so on so forth... So I had an idea awhile back to pull a sample every 15 minutes when I would...

I'm getting close to bottling an imperial stout, thing i'm concerned about is it was supposed to finish at 1.030 and it ended up at 1.015 . Can I add lactose or some such thing when I bottle to bring the desired sweetness back or should I leave it alone? Recipe was called double W imp. stout...

Looking for local brewers or a club in the area. I live in juneau, haven't found much other than a dead link to a club in watertown. Oshkosh/Fdl/madison is a little far for me, and I'm usually only home on the weekend. I've only been brewing for a year so, If your a master brewer or haven't...

I'm wondering if I can add a 1500w heat stick to my boil kettle to compliment my boil. Problem i'm having is boiling on our fancy energy efficient glasstop stove. I can't get a decent boil with even 2.5 gallons of wort. this is what I'm looking at ...

I'd like to start kegging in the near future and am looking at my options. I brew 2.5gal batches so I'm wondering if there may be any downside to putting 2.5 in 5gal kegs? I guess 3 gallon would be more ideal for me but the price of 5 gallon kegs are definately more appealing. Any thoughts?

SNPA Clone. I did a few things different this time, for one Late addition of the extract. The other I just added the hops straight to the boil rather than containing them in a hops ball. When I dumped the wort into the carboy I did not strain it but, I didn't dump the hops in that were the...

I have a northern recipe for Surley's Bitter Brewer I'd like to tweak, here's my story : 2.5 gallons fermented ready to bottle today. I have half the supplies left for another batch. Now, I was fortunate in that my brother brought me some home the otherday as I live 150mi from the twin...

Its a whitish colored haze, Im on day 8 of fermentation. I didn't notice this until this morning. The top side is just fine, some yeast or what not floating. Everyones in fection pictures always seem to be suff floating on top, does't seem like that. I've had a bubble every minute for the last...

So I'm wondering... Is it always normal for a beer to taste 'green' a week or so after bottling? If I let the bottles sit another week or month whats going on in there that will change the taste so dramatically? I took a sip when I tested gravity on my last batch, when bottling. It seems like...

Hello all, first post... I learned with a Mr. beer, now I have some new equipment! So I made my first half batch yesterday, an extract. After about 4 hours the airlock was going crazy, at 6hrs there was a 1/2" of krausen on top, I went to bed. This morning, airlock is still going mad, lots of...