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So I wanted to brew a session beer that that had to meet the following criteria: 1 - Quick Turnaround Time 2 - Had enough character to be interesting 3 - Would be appealing to non-craft beer drinkers 4 - Cheap to make 5 - Something I can drink alot of on Sundays So I decided on a...

I'm going to be brewing an imperial stout in the next week or two, and recently stocked up on brewing salts in order to adjust my water from distilled. The problem is i have no idea what I'm doing. So I'm looking for help. The beer is going to be big, OG around 1.100, with an SRM of 53 (1 lb...

The tripel i brewed back in June placed 2nd in the Strong Ale category at the Homebrewers of Philadelphia and suburbs Best of Philadelphia homebrew contest! I'm Excited! I added the recipe to the database and included the judges feedback, heres a link...

Ingredients: ------------ Amount Item 15 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) 1.00 oz Styrian Goldings [7.00 %] (90 min) 1.00 oz Saaz [3.80 %] (15 min) 1.00 oz Saaz [3.20 %]...

So, I brewed up a higher gravity pumpkin ale, and I was wondering what the best category to enter it in would be. Right now i was thinking "21A. Spice, Herb, or Vegetable beer". However, if i use this category I'm not sure what i should pick as the underlying base style. The other category i was...

I've got an upcoming DIPA i want to brew since my 3lbs of hops just arrived and have a question. This is the first beer i plan on doing water adjustments too. I downloaded Brew Water and let it calculate the additions for me (i'm using distilled as my base water). That part I've got under...

I have 2 beers going right now (a belgian and a saison), that i would like to carb to at least 3 volumes of C02. Is this possible in the standard 12oz longnecks? Or will i need to find some champagne bottles? Anyone know the the max. volumes of CO2 a regular bottle can handle before they turn...

So, here's the deal. I have some leftover ingredients and I'm looking to throw them into something. There is a pretty blank canvas, since it only some base grain, hops, and yeast (I have no problem picking up additional ingredients) Grain: 10 lbs of german pils yeast: vial of WLP051 -...

So last night I had a couple friends over to hang out and brew some beer. I brewed up 6 gallons of a golden-monkeyish tripel. Time for photos yay! The grain for this batch was crushed using my newly built pasta crusher: I tried to get a picture of the crush, but they all came out...

I've made this a couple time now and it seems to be a hit with everyone thats had it. I highly recommend it if you a fan of mussels or clams. I'm making it again tonight. I'll try to remember to get a picture. Ingredients: Clams or mussels Shallots Butter 3-4 strips of bacon 1 tbls each...

I'm bored tonight so i figured i'd post up some of the food pics i have laying around. I think my love of cooking is what makes me enjoy brewing so much. We'll start simple. Home-made pizza, Dough and all: In case anyone was wondering, that no-knead bread recipe makes excellent pizza...

So I'm running low on my IPA, so i thought for the next batch I'd make a couple changes and bump it up to a IIPA. Here is the tentative recipe: 5 lbs 2-row 4 lbs Vienna 4 lbs Munich 1 lb Crystal 60 2 oz Chinook @ 60 1 oz Hop Blend @ 20 1 oz Hop Blend @ 10 1 oz Hop Blend @ 5 1 oz...

So i just won my ebay auction for a 50ft roll of 3/8 ID soft copper (winning bid: $18.25, SWEET!). I am planning on building an immersion chiller, and had a question. Would it be more efficient if: 1. I used the full 50 feet for the chiller 2. I used say 25 feet for the chiller...

So today i brewed up my first all grain and first recipe i created myself, a toasted oatmeal stout. I borrowed the girlfriends camera for the day and finally got a chance to snap some photos. First, My newly built MLT The CPVC Manifold. I was worried about possible getting a stuck sparge...

I'm going to be brewing my first all grain batch tomorrow, and this will also be the first recipe i created myself. I'd like to see what some more experienced brewers think: Toasted Oatmeal Stout - 5 gallon Batch 9.5 lbs pale malt 1 lb flaked oats .5 lbs Black Roasted Barley .5 lbs...

I have an IPA that i'm going to be transferring to secondary soon because i plan on dry hopping. This will be my first attempt at it and i have a quick question. I was planning on putting the hops in muslin bags and was wondering what the best way to sanitize them would be? I was planning on...

Came out awesome. This site is great. I read it over and over again before i attempted my first brew. Here's a look (I apologize for the image quality, its a camera phone since my digital is broken) Its an apricot wheat beer. It looks alot lighter in person. But the lighting in my...

So I'm going to start brewing my 5th batch this weekend, and everything up to this point has come out pretty fantastic. I did i couple of hefe's and a stoudt so far. However my favorite style of beer is Belgians. Knowing this, my buddy picked me up a kit of the Dutch castle magic mini-mash kit...