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I recently moved into a new house where the water was extremely hard. To combat this problem, I installed a water softener. I have since conducted a Ward Laboratories water report and the Na ppm is 219. In trying to do a little initial research, I have found that this water is not conducive at...

I have begun split batching some of my beer as my wife has stopped drinking alcohol. I will split the batch into two separate 6 gal ss brew buckets and ferment completely. One I will keg as I normally would but the other I try to do low/no alcohol for her. My first attempt with a wheat beer was...

I currently use a single tier 20 gal, three vessel stainless brewing set up. I do not have a HERMS coil but I do a recirculating mash for 60 min keeping a very small flame under the mash tun in order to keep the correct mash temperature. In recirculating, I use a piece of silicone tubing. I also...

I’ve brewed a number of NEIPAs over the past years and have good results initially. The beers are great for the first two weeks. However after that they tend to clear up and have a more standard IPA mouthfeel. My typical grist is: 75% rahr 2-row 12.5% flaked oats 12.5% flaked wheat Mash at 156...

I have a barley Crusher Grain mill and use a cordless dewalt drill to power it. The issue I am running into is that the spindle for the mill is smooth and the drill tends to slip during the milking process even though the drill is is fully locked. Just seeing if anyone has a remedy for this. I...

I typically order liquid yeast online since my LBS doesn’t carrier imperial yeast. I always purchase the optional ice packs when ordering liquid yeast but they don’t seem to keep the yeast cold enough when shipping in 90 degree heat. I’m sure this kind of heat does severe damage to the health of...

I am planning on using a fruit purée for an upcoming recipe during secondary but haven’t used this type of ingredient before. My fermenter is a bucket with a spigot and I perform a closed transfer to a keg where I dry hop. I was thinking about adding the purée in a mesh bag and suspend it from...

Is there anyway to slow the rate at which the gravity drops during sparging? What has been happening is that I do not achieve my pre boil volume before the runoff gravity reaches 1.010. My sparge rate is right at 1 gal per 5 min and am not sure how to slow the rate down to achieve my pre boil...

I am using Bru n Water and have been adding the sparse additions into the boil kettle including the lactic acid if needed. When creating my recipe I have simply been using the pre boil volume as the “sparge” volume to treat. Is this an accurate way of adding the water additions? Also, is adding...

Every NEIPA that I have either brewed, tasted, or heard about always focus of the fruitiest hops available. I am absolutely a fan of this new style of beer but was wondering if anyone has heard of or done themselves a NEIPA style substituting the fruit hops for the traditional C hops that are...

I have tried a few attempts at making a DIPA with not all that great of results. What I have found is that they have a very sweet taste, most likely due to the higher FG. I have come up with the following recipe for a very piney, dry DIPA. Please take a look at this and let me know your opinions...

I am looking to expand from my current refrigerator kegerator to a keezer in which I plan to store and serve 4 kegs plus the co2 tank. Does anyone have experience as to what cubic footage is needed to achieve this, i.e. 6.9, 7.7, etc? I realize every manufacturer will have a slightly different...

I use BeerSmith to formulate all of my recipes and typically load the water profile for the beer style I am brewing from Bru n' Water into the water profile tool in BeerSmith and have the software calculate the adjustments for me. This works great, however there are a few limitations I am seeing...

I recently brewed a NEIPA that turned out very good. I used a vast amount of oats and 2 row malt but was wondering if using 6 row instead would be a better option since that style of malt is more appropriate for higher adjunct brewing. I have looked at many different NEIPA recipes and no one is...

Yes, it is almost getting to be that time of year again when pumpkin is in almost every beer we hear about. Last year I brewed Northern Brewer's Smashing Pumpkin Kit which was very good but they only add spices and no actual pumpkin in the recipe. I am looking to use either canned or real...

Does anyone have any experience with brewing water profile calculators? I have used three different calculators and came up with three completely different water additions. I first used the desktop version of BeerSmith 2, then used Bru n' Water (which I ultimately used) and finally used the...

I am getting ready to brew a white stout for the first time next weekend and have my recipe formulated but have not settled on a water profile yet. I have seen profiles for oatmeal stouts, sweet stouts, and even balanced profiles and light colored malt forward beers but do not know which profile...