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I'm planning on brewing a porter which will only use dehusked carafa as far as roasted grains go. My goal there is to get as much coffee flavor (and maybe some chocoaltey flavor too) as possible out of the grain with as little dryness/astringency/acrid flavors as possible. Roast is ok, but...

Hey there. I'm about to brew an Ordinary Bitter and wanted to try making water adjustments. I read a lot and used TH's spreadsheet to bring down my RA to lighter beer range while lowering a bit my Cl:SO4 ratio which is already at 0.66. Here's my tap water profile: Starting Water...

Alright... So I built this awesome Keezer... As you may notice, I have a stout faucet in the middle. I do not have a nitrogen tank though. I read that you can still use it by removing the restriction disc, which I did, and it dispensed ale without any problems. Fast forward a...

Hi, I'm brewing a Kölsch next monday using White Labs' WLP029 German Ale/ Kölsch Yeast. Thing is, it will be a 11 gallons batch and, around all 3 homebrew shops nearby, I could only find one vial. Therefore, I bought some DME and I'm going to do my first starter ever. I won't have...

Hi, I'm looking forward to moving my brewing setup outdoors and it's now time to buy a good burner. The Bayou Classic's KAB-6 seems to be a good choice... thing is, I cannot find any Bayou Classic product in Canada at all, at least on the east coast. Does anyone know of a canadian web...

Hi, I want to change my brewing setup from a stove-top to an outodoor propane gaz burner with keggle. I've been on the lookout for used kegs for a while, and I just got the opportunity to buy this used keggle. The keggle has two drilled ports for electrical elements as well as a...

Hi, I'm kegging for the first time (and brewing for the first time as a matter of fact) and couldn't find a clear answer to my newbie question. My witbeir is currently sitting in my keg. I ran 20 PSI into it and purged a couple of times to remove the most o2 I could. Now I set the keg...

Hi, I have a wooden arch in my backyard unto which I might want to grow hops on. It's your typical 7 to 8 feet high, by about 3-4 feet wide wooden arch that you sometime see in parks. Kind of like this one. I plan on using two of the same variety of hops, one per side of the...

Hi, Thanks in great part to this forum, I brewed my first batch ever yesterday. The goal of this thread is two-fold. First, I wanted to share a journal-like report of my first brew day so that other people about to start brewing can better grasp how it goes. Secondly, I simply...

Hi, I'm new to these forums and to home brewing. I spent the last week reading from beginning to end Palmer's HowToBrew website, and spent some more time around here. So I'm about to be as confident as I can be before starting my first batch. However, I am somewhat unclear about the...