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Well, Live & learn. My 10%abv IIPA has been in the bottle for 4 weeks @ 72F. Still flat. Got 80% attenuation out of the American Ale II. I think they're spent. In hindsight, I should have pitched a little fresh yeast. A couple weeks ago I got a kegging setup. In an effort to save...

Anyone tried brewing this recipe from BYO 2003? Ingredients * 6 lbs. (2.7 kg) Briess light extract syrup * 1 lb. (0.45 kg) dextrin malt * 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) Carastan malt * 6 oz. (168 g) brown malt * 4 oz. (112 g) crystal malt (120 °L) * 2 oz. (56 g) black...

So I had a very active primary (see below) pic taken about 18 hours after pitching. I'm coming up on 12 days in the primary and the yeast are starting to fall out and the top 4-5 inches of the beer are looking pretty clear...but there is still a 1 inch head of foam on the beer. I have never...

I'm looking to brew quite a bit this summer. Exclusively ales, most likely be using yeast that thrives in the 60-72 degree range. I keep my condo at a steady 75 in the summer. So, after a little research, I've decided that I'll use the "swamp cooler" method to keep my primary ferms <65 (wort...

So my first IIPA is about 5 days into the primary. OG was 1.093 ... down to 1.030 as of last night. Took a taste after taking the gravity reading. Whoa! I feel like I've brewed a "fruit" beer. Seriously, it's pretty overwhelming with grapefruit. I'm gonna let it sit in the primary for...

I'm getting ready to rack a pretty big beer to the secondary but I want to check the sg before I commit to the transfer. It's in a 6.5 gallon carboy now. I don't think my turkey baster is long enough to get a sample and I would rather not bust out the auto siphon to collect a 4 oz sample...

I took copious notes throughout the process. Many thanks to those who offered their advice here. Here is my recipe and my brew day notes: (criticisms, comments welcome) My equipment- 2 x 17.5 gallon igloo cubes. MT has a sparge sprinkler and ss hose grain filter. 8 gallon brew pot (keggle...

geez, lotta cherries gonna be popped this weekend :) Some advice is needed: I have a recipe that I'm committed to at this point, for better or worse. It is for an IIPA with an OG of 1.090 and an 18lb grain bill. I have huge mash/hlt coolers (70qt) and a 8 gallon boil kettle. Am I...

I used mrmalty to calculate that I needed a 2.5 l starter w/ 2 wyeast packets to get about 320 Billion cells. So...I got 2.5 liters (.6 gallons) of water to a boil and stirred in about 8 oz of DME. Boiled for 15 minutes in a small ss stockpot and then chilled in an ice bath for about 15...

For now I've just been doing 5 gal partial mashes. The next batch I plan on doing the same but I'm going to try to dial things in a bit. I'm brewing a big IIPA and I want to try to hit an OG of ~1.040 for the boil so I can get the most out of my hops. Then do a late boil extract add to hit...

I'm looking for an economical 5-6 gal. brewpot that I can pick up this weekend? Anyone have any suggestions on where to buy one? I would like to stay under $30 since this is only a temporary solution.