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Howdy folks, I used to post here like 10 years ago, fell out of the hobby for a while, and am now in the Applied Craft Brewing program at Regis University. I'm working on a final project for one of my classes, and I had a disastrous brew day. Long story short, I had a boilover right after I...

So I bottled an extract IPA kit I won in the Dominion Cup today. Since it was a free kit, I fooled around with it a little. I threw some oak cubes in the secondary about 10 days ago, and then I split 2 oz of Willamette hops pellets, threw half of them in a week ago and made a hop tea out of the...

I'm getting ready to do an imperial stout that I'm planning to oak age. I've read a handful of threads here about oaking, but I'd really like to get some input on how long I should let the beer sit on the cubes. My impression is that short term is a "taste it and see when it's done" kind of...

I brewed an English Strong Ale back in December that took me a long time to finish up. I had some stuck fermentation problems and went through several steps, including pitching more yeast two times, before it finally finished up. After about 2 weeks in the bottle, I popped one out of curiosity...

So I've got an English Strong Ale that I brewed back in december. It spent 3.5 weeks in the primary, and then I racked to the secondary long after evidence of fermentation had stopped. I then tasted a sample and of course it's super sweet. The hydrometer reading showed me that the gravity was...

I just finished up brewing what was supposed to be an English strong ale or old ale. I followed the recipe pretty closely, but my OG reading is way lower than the recipe states. It lists 1.093, and mine was like 1.030. First of all, what's the cause of this? Secondly, does this mean my English...

When it comes to extract brewing, is the basic procedure the same for everything, or does it vary greatly depending on the brew? I've done an extra pale ale and a stout, and I'm about to start a english strong ale. The first two were similar procedures, but not identical. I steeped the pale...

Well I may've just avoided a disaster. I opened the closet my carboy is stashed in to check on the stout I've got in there, and I noticed an ant crawling across the top of the bottle. Sure enough, there was a cluster of them in the back corner and a trail going across the wall. I moved the...