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I'm brewing with gas currently and was considering going electric. If I had the money, I might jump in a buy a complete system but I don't, so..............I need to start piecing things together. To start, I thought I might try using a Gigawort electric kettle as the HLT and add a Blichmann...

I'm making a trip to northwest Arkansas early next week and I'm hoping someone can help me with a craft beer recommendation. I fly into Branson, MO and then will stay in Harrison, AR. It doesn't look like "big city", which I like but it may limit the local craft beer scene. Any tips would...

So I brewed up a Bee Cave Porter today and did not have any Crystal 40. I substitued a 1/2 lb of Crystal 80 and 1/2 lb of Pale Ale malt to make up for my inventory gaff. I was not about to stop this morning and I am sure the end product will be very drinkable. I just flat screwed up, I...

I made a 1 liter starter for a WLP550, Belgium Pale Ale yeast. I got the yeast on sale for $2.00 because it is 2 months past the good date. I thought what the heck, let's try BPA. Well, the beer is chilled and being aerated right now and the starter does not look good. I've made about a...

I made a bulk purchase of Pale Ale malt and would like to brew up an ordinary bitter. Most recipes trying to replicate a genuine English bitter use Maris Otter I am wondering if I would notice a significant difference by using Pale Ale malt? I'm probably going to use the Pale Ale malt that I...

So I brewed up a batch of EdWort's Robust Porter according to his recipe. I used my Beer Smith program to calculate all the process parameters for my equipment. Beer Smith predicted a SG = 1.062 and the actual SG was 1.072, which doen't really sound right. I guess my question is, how...

I screwed up and bought the wrong yeast.:mad: I had planned to buy pack of S-04 and fat fingered a packet of S-05. I have ingredients for an English bitter. I also have Nottingham, Windsor and Munich packets that I could use. If I go with the S-05 is this going to be dramatically different...

So I brewed up a batch of hefe and it was a triple decoction recipe. I just bottled the beer and it already tastes fantastic. It takes me right back to the Chinese Beer Garden in Munich or any of the beer tents from the Oktoberfest. My question is this, will a double or single decoction get...

I have a wheat beer recipe that consists of 6lbs of Wheat Malt and 5lbs of Munich malt. The recipe calls for a 3 step decoction and I am sure this is in keeping with the spirit of German brewing methods. I have never performed a decoction and do not have a graduated ladle or the desire to...

I am now the proud owner of a Polarware 10 gal. kettle. I am primed to make my first 5.5 gal AG batch, just need to order the recipe. I am thinking of BierMunchers Cream of Three Crops ale. It looks simple enough and it will allow me the chance to have it ready for the July fourth weekend...

I cannot believe this, my wife is pissed and I feel like the A$$ of the month. I have 13 batches under my belt and to date, no boil over problems. Tonight, I make my first yeast starter and the damn thing boils over on the stove. Wife is livid and now I need to figure out how to make starters...

I'm going to make the jump to AG and I already have a 5 gal. drink cooler with a SS braid. I have been playing with AG techniques with cooler to see how my temperatures react, how to vorlauf, etc... while brewing Partial Mash recipes. The braid seems to work well enough but, again, I don't...

Okay, I am a noob, that's a good start. I started with extract brewing, I've now completed about 5 or 6 PM and I am very happy with the finished beer thus far. After my second PM, I decided to try AG mashing for the grain portion of the PM recipe. Things are going fine and I make beer...

I have never tried my hand at yeast washing and I am considering trying, given the cost of liquid yeast. Are there certain types of yeast that lend themselves to washing better than others? I have a Bavarian Hefe to bottle, it's on a Wyeast W3068 cake and I would like to collect some for...

Having made 5 PM brews, I think I am ready to make an All Grain batch. My problem in that my boil kettle is only 5.5 gallons. I have a 5 gal MT (drink cooler conversion) and I was thinking of making an English bitter, OG around 1.040. Here's the plan, I will use a single infusion mash and...

I have a standard bottle bucket spiggot that came with a kit from Midwest. I am wondering if I need to tear this thing apart to clean it? I take it out of the bucket and clean the nut, washer and valve separatly. I generally soak the thing in oxiclean with all of my brew gear overnigt, rinse...

I cracked the end of the raking cane on my autosiphon and now I am wondering if I need to buy a new autosiphon or can I simply replace the racking cane? I haven't really pulled to much on the rubber tip that fits onto the raking cane and seals with the siphon outer tube but it appears to be...

I have a Scotch Ale that will have been on the yeast cake for three weeks soon, the OG was 1.088. I had planned to rack to a secondary carboy and bulk age the brew. I plan on aging it for 3 months at 68 degrees prior to bottling. I will then rack to bottles and age another 4 to 6 months at 56...

My first Partial Mash was a Scotch Ale kit from AHS. I tried to mash my grains in my 5 gal MLT and it was not as difficult as I thought to get the wort out without alot of grist. When I scrape enough money together for a bigger boil pot, I may give all grain a go. I used an air stone for 20...

I brewed an AHS Classic Amber Ale today and was a little surprised by the OG. It was supposed to be 1.045 but my reading was 1.078. The recipe consisted of the following: Boil for 60 min. 1 lb. Dextrose 1 lb. Light DME .25 lb Malto Dextrose .75 oz. Cluster Hops 6.4 AA .25...