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I built a rectangle cooler mash tun a while ago. Did the toilet hose braid thing. It always seemed to work fine but I am trying to dial in my effeciency. Maybe I am sparging with too much water, maybe I have a lot of dead space I am not accounting for (usually plug in .5 gallon into my...

Couldn't find pumpkin at the time of brewing this so I used sweet potatoes!!! This will be my fall ale! It looks awesome in a glass and the taste is very balanced I thought. Can't taste the sweet potato just like the pumpkin in pumpkin ales but it's the thought that counts. I wouldn't add...

I am going to brew a wee heavy for my holiday ale...maybe put it on some oak...I am going to use the Scottish ale yeast with a starter. Anyway, I have come across two different types of recipes: either a recipe with small amounts of a few specialty grains with normal amount of base grain and...

My second year Centennial plant putting out some shoots!

I wanted a 'nicer' way of serving my keg instead of the keg/bucket with ice/picnic tap combo. Nothing too ground breaking here but I think it is awesome! I don't keep my kegs on tap in a fridge or anything so this is just a one night use application but it allows me to chill my keg for a...

I am building a "keg box" that will better insulate my corney keg during serving times. I don't use my keg for extended periods of time so I am just using wood and insulated foam for some insulation with a bucket inside of that. I have seen the PVC DIY towers and I am prepared to do that but...

Just got done posting in another thread about how fermcap has reduced my karausen levels and then I walk in to the room that I am fermenting my american wheat with s-04.... And the ceiling shot...

I brewed up a 2 hearted type ale and let it ferment with nottingham around 65*F for two weeks then threw in one ounce of homegrown centennial hops for a dry hop this past week. The beer tasted fine just before I threw the hops in a week ago, during the week when I whiffed it and theifed some for...

Looking at JZ's Classic Styles for this idea: for 70% efficiency 11lbs belgian pils 2lbs cane sugar ** 1lb wheat malt 1oz First Gold 8% 60 mins 1oz Fuggle 4% 30mins Wyeast 1388 will make a starter out of some DME a few days before. This will get me about 7% abv which I am fine...

I know yeast is everything to some beers but there is no way I can lager a beer and really want to make an amber bock. Any other cheater types of ale yeast I could use? Maybe US-05?

I sent in an american pale ale to a local competition in ann arbor. I got a 33.5 (one judge gave me a 32, the other a 36). Of course it was my first gusher!!! Damnit. And sure enough my ones at home here are gushers as well... I'll ave to drink them up pretty fast I suppose. So the judges...

I am just about to finish my cooler to MLT conversion and I am doing the SS braid setup. On flyguy's tutorial he mentions some vinyl tubing to place in for support. I think I found it at my local ACO. It says vinyl (PVC) tubing safe for potable water but not ice machines. The packaging also...

Disclaimer: I'm an idiot. I don't know anything about regulators and should have asked first. So yesterday I kegged my first beer and had just enough CO2 in a paintball tank to set the lid of the keg. No problem. I go and get the CO2 tank refilled today and wanted to purge the keg and hit it...

2lbs American Two-Row 2lbs Pils Two-Row 1lbs Flaked Oats 2.5lbs Soft White Wheat 1lbs Torrified Wheat .25lbs Acid Malt 1oz. Strisselspalt Pellet Hops (2.5%) at 60 minutes .5oz Crushed Corriander .5oz bitter orange peel .5oz sweet orange peel zest from 2 navel oranges 2...

A well balanced beer, I think, with the sweet malt and the spice from the rye and hops. Dark copper color. Again just a nice American ale. Something when I say "I would like a beer" this beer now comes to mind. 5 gallons boil for 4 gallons fermentation Not the usual 6 gallon boil with 5 gallon...

I based this recipe off of the pumpkin ale recipe in Zymurgy. I added some victory, changed some of the percentages of the grains, and changed the spices a little bit. It happened to turn out as a very close clone of a pumpkin ale by Buffalo Bill's Brewery. It is a little less spicy than that...

Can't seem to find any information on pH levels effecting activity of yeast. I pitched some wlp011 into a few gallons of cider yesterday. Basic science knowledge suggests that apple cider is acidic and I am hoping that using a regular beer yeast that the cider environment isn't too much for the...

So I jumped shipped and did a small all grain batch today via brew in a bag style. I put together a 2.5 gallon american wheat beer. Recipe: 2.5 lbs American 2 row 2.5 lbs white wheat .5 lbs light munich wyeast 1010 60 minute boil .5 oz saaz (5.8%) 45 mins .25 oz saaz 25...

Ok be easy...instead of me flipping through the pages on here, my brewing book, podcasts etc. (which I did for this recipe as well) and doing 5 gallons of a recipe that may work, I figured I'll post my recipe before I brew it and only brew a half batch. I like "putting together" my own recipes...

My second batch of brew in a few months and I decided to do an amber ale. 5gallons 6lbs amber DME .75lbs crystal 80 teaspoon irish moss at 15 minutes .5oz simcoe 10% aa at 45 mins 1 oz sterling 6% aa at 10 mins late addition of 5lbs of the extract at 10 mins california ale yeast...