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The San Diego Homebrew Festival and Competition is next weekend, March 18th. http://www.sdhomebrewfest.com I have entered my Pale Ale which will be served at the event. Looking forward to trying lots of great Homebrew.

Playing with a recipe on my phone. what do you think? Batch Size (fermenter): 10.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.065 SG Estimated Color: 4.4 SRM Estimated IBU: 63.5 IBUs Boil Time: 60 Minutes Mash 152 1 lbs Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) 12 lbs White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) 12 lbs...

Hello, I have ordered a 5g whiskey barrel from a distillery and plan on brewing a big stout to put in it. Need some help with a recipe. Looking to make something over 10% and counting on efficiency in the mid 60s. I figure no reason to go crazy with the grain bill or yeast as the whiskey will...

TL;DR Enjoyable brew day with back to back batches as my wife demanded I brew her favorite but had something else I wanted to brew. Found batch sparging with equal batch volumes and a thinner mash helps my efficiency. Oh and a Hot Toddy made with Altbier wort is amazeballs. Brewed two 5...

Hello, I bought my single tier, 3 burner rig on craigslist and have been super happy with it. I am now trying to convert my setup to natural gas, but after hooking everything up I am not very happy result, and looking for advice on what to do next. When I fired her up (after what I describe...

I brewed a 10 gallon batch last Saturday. My second time trying this volume. Last time I dry hopped 5 gallons and left the other 5 alone to make two distinct beers. This time it is just 10 gallon of the same beer (Belgian Wit). I split the beer into two separate 6 gallon plastic carboys. Should...

I have been getting pretty clear beer, but my last batch came out quite cloudy. It was a golden promise Galaxy SMaSH. OG around 1.068, with 6oz of hop in the boil and two more ounces for dry hops. I vorlauf by recirculating through my false bottom for about 10min and I used Irish moss in the...

Wanting to brew a Galaxy Golden Promise SMaSH IPA this weekend. Looking for some feedback on the hopping schedule. 14lbs Golden Promise -> 1.074 OG making something around 7.5% ABV Hops (all are Galaxy) 1oz First Wort Addition (40 IBUs) 2oz@15min (36 IBUs) 4oz@ flameout 5oz Dryhop for 5 days I...

Today it has been one year since I brewed my first batch. Started with a starter kit from Northren Brewer and a couple of extract kits. Kegged my first batch. After I made the first extract kits that came with my kit I moved to all grain and have brewed m any good beers. I am always looking at...

Last weekend my brother was over as my assistant Brewer (meaning he drinks while I brew, occasionally stirs the wort and turns the hose on when I am not ready, soaking me). My keg of APA kicked on him and the last pint was full of yeast, though the rest of the keg had been super clear beer. This...

SWMBO says I have a problem.... Every time I go to home depot I buy a bucket, brewing has made this problem worse. I have a bucket for storing sanitizer, one for PBW and another to hold ice water for my chiller. I need a bucket to collect water and of course my bottling bucket (even though I...

I have now done 6 all grain 5gallon batches with my three vessel single tier setup, going to try something different and do a 1 gallon biab on my stove top. I have my grains, a 24 qt pot and a 5g paint strainer bag from home depot. Anything I should look out for? (My first brew was a 5g extract...

Brewed a Dunkleweizen over the weekend and thought I would do a decotion mash. This was my 6th all grain batch. I did a very quick google search and set up a single decotion mash in beersmith with a protein rest at 122 and then up to 154. Away I went. Now... I didn't really understand that...

Been using a blowoff tube since I got my chest freezer fermentation chamber (airlock wont fit) and finally had it pay off. Still bubbling like mad. What do I do now? Let it be? Clean out the tube once fermentation slowed down? Clean it now?

I have done 4 brews with my keggle mash tun (acquired on Craig's list) and I feel I am always fighting a stuck sparge resulting in missed numbers. I am brewing on a single tier rig with dual pumps. I find that a lot of grain is getting underneath my false bottom and clogging my dip tube or my...

Both show 1.000 with the same tap water (don't have distilled water handy), but wildly different readings for my wort. My last batch they both agreed. I was shooting for 1.062, but had a stuck sparge from hell. Now I am worried I really messed up my efficiency and the hydrometer is the real...

I had a bottle of Homework Series #5 (Hoppy Belgian-Style Pale Ale) from Ballast Point and they post the recipe http://www.ballastpoint.com/beer-recipes/... Sweet. They actually had the recipe on a tag around the bottle of the neck as well. Beer was great and I am planning it for my brew this...

I was in Prague a couple years back and had this beer... I remember it being amazing but haven't found it since. Not sure if I was just in a good mood from the wine I had earlier or is it really awesome. Has anyone here tried it? Available in the US? I made it back to Prague last year and...

I brewed a saison the weekend before last and by this last weekend the air lock died down. Took a gravity sample yesterday and found it at 1.003, sample taste dry (very tasty)... Figured I would let it sit the rest of the week and keg this weekend. I put the air lock back on... And the thing...

Looking at putting together an IPA as my first shot a trying my hand a putting together something from scratch and looking for feedback. I am looking for a good clean IPA with lots of good citrus taste (so my wife will like it) but not over the top might as well be drinking juice. 12 lbs...