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Hey everyone, so I've been using Conan in my APAs/IPAs for the past few months and generally I've had great reviews of my beers (I'm still dialing on the recipes so I'm not totally satisfied yet). I love Heady Topper and was stoked to get good Conan from some cans I had. More recently I've been...

Well it seems like an obvious problem and fix (for next time)! I spiked it with a 1/4 cup DME in 1 cup water + tsp of yeast nutrient and got it down to 1.020, and it tastes relatively okay. Certainly a bit "dirtier" but it's not overly sweet or malty - if anything it's a hair too bitter from...

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a possible solution to a FG issue I'm having. OG: 1.060 Malt Bill: 9Lb Pearl Malt 0.5Lb Crystal 40L 0.6Lb Carapils 178F mash in; 158F mash temp for 60 mins -> 157F when the mash was over. Collected around 4 Gallons for boil (60 min boil) I used a yeast started...

It's not sanitation that's the issue, it's the heat. In general heat can influence microbes, and especially in yeast, where their secondary metabolites are what we enjoy tasting, variations in temperature can produce dramatically different flavors. I did a mental facepalm when I read that you...

I just harvested some Sap yeast and picked up some Julius from the same canning day - the Sap has started to ferment the starter so I'm going to do the same with Julius and try to replicate the beer based on the knowledge in this thread. I think a large issue is going to come down to the malts...

For some reason this beer came out very bitter and very herbal. There are undertones of the flavors I was going for with the hops, but overall it's just very, very herbal, bitter, and purely "hoppy". It came out decent if I were to objectively try it. Wouldn't be my favorite beer by a mile but I...

After 5 days dry-hopping I racked to secondary and am dry-hopping again with: 0.8oz Galaxy 0.3oz Motueka (it's what I had left) As well as 1oz of Wai-iti because it was about time I used it haha. The beer is quite good looking, a very rich amber so far. The taste is quite good, slightly heavy...

I added 0.5oz each of Citra, Motueka, Galaxy, and Calypso into the fermenter for dry hopping (it's day 6 - I plan to dry hop for 5-7 days). The yeast are still going crazy and there is a very large foam bubble layer at the top of the wort. I took a small sample to try and so far it's incredibly...

Assuming it's a normal bourbon and therefore relatively high proof, the beans should be preserved well. The flavors will have leeched out (which is fine since you said it's all going in) but in terms of sterility and that type of issue you're fine. Unless something abnormal is growing on it of...

So I brewed this today, and if there's one thing AG has taught me, it's that I'm still so incredibly new to brewing. I mashed: 2-Row Pale 10Lb Crystal 20L 1Lb White Wheat 1Lb Goldpils Vienna 1Lb For 120 minutes at 154F (I had no other choice due to life getting literally in the middle of...

Here's the beer. If I let it sit for a couple hours in the fridge then pour it out, what's left is a white, whispy solution of what honestly looks like cells falling out of suspension. I had no indication of fermentation for 3 days so I think yeast is unlikely, though fermentation seemed to...

I'm not sure what exactly is going on at this point with the beer. Here's the full timeline: Boil: cloudy wort, to which I attributed the lack of Irish moss addition. Primary Fermentation: Allowed to ferment for 5 days (bubbling stopped dramatically) then moved to secondary for dry hopping. At...

So I dryhopped with 2oz of Galaxy for 3 days and just bottled today. The beer is irrationally hopped and as a result is quite bitter and overwhelmingly hoppy so far. Definitely getting a massive tropical fruit smell from it so far, but it's way too early to tell exactly how it came out. All I...

So this is a modified version of my Stardust IPA: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=544255 It'll be 5 gallons or just under, aiming for a 6.5 gallon boil size for 90 mins Malts: 2-Row Pale 10Lb Crystal 20L 1Lb White Wheat 1Lb Goldpils Vienna 1Lb Going to mash at 155F for...

Given the sheer immensity of this thread, does anyone have the current, closest clone to Heady? I'm going to do alot of digging, but if someone can just post the current best clone that'd be fantastic! I'm going to try to synthesize it all together and eventually make my own clone.

So after a whole bunch of research on whirlpooling/hop stands I ended up revamping the entire hop process. Grain bill was the same, hopefully I mashed correctly (first all grain!!). I believe I did - took well over and hour to sparge roughly 6.5 gallons for my 5 gallon batch. My boil was...

My grain percents are: 78.7% Rahr 2-Row 7.1% Vienna 7.1% British Crystal 50/60 7.1% White Wheat I'm strongly leaning towards adding 1oz galaxy at my 5 and 20 min boil each and order 2 more ounces for the dry hopping. I'm hopping that'll really push the hop character. I need to read up more on...

Hey everyone, I've been lurking here awhile and frankly I have yet to be able to not answer a question I've had with a quick search until now. Fantastic wealth of knowledge here! Anyways, as the title says I'm looking for some help with a recipe I'm designing. I'm calling it the Stardust Pale...