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I've recently started doing all-grain brews, having just kegged my 3rd. My first 3 AG brews were pretty basic, a Kolsch, an IPA, and an altbier, so on Brew Day this weekend I thought I'd try doing a higher gravity double-IPA. I'm quite fond of Brew Dog's 'Hardcore IPA' so I found a clone recipe...

It's a dark porter-style ale, I used the Wyeast 1098 'British Ale' strain. It's been in the fermenter 3 weeks and the gravity hasn't changed since I checked it last weekend. It's been pretty cold in the house lately. I tried a taste and it seemed pretty mild alcohol-wise. Do you think with...

I recently scored a couple of beer kegs that I plan to convert into keggles and I'm in the market for a propane burner. I'm seeing the Bayou Classic SP10 for sale at Home Depot for $53 including shipping and it looks like a good deal. Is the SP10 sufficient for using with a keggle or do I...

I have some wheat DME left over from my last brew and am considering using it for bottle priming. The guy at my LHBS said to use 8oz DME per 5 gallons but I don't have a scale to measure it. He also didn't recommend using volume measurement and I can understand why but I was curious as to how...

Has anyone ever had problems with Star-san and Corian countertops? On my last bottling session I noticed after cleaning up that there were white splotches where I had some of my equipment sitting that had previously been soaked in sanitizer. A little elbow grease didn't seem to make it go away...

3 weeks ago today I brewed a german hefeweizen, OG: 1.058. There was quite a bit of bubbling in the airlock for the first 3-4 days and it continued to be visibly active for the week following then stopped. Sometime during the second week it started bubbling again (is this normal?) and then...

...or more specifically on the side burner of their grill? Summer is coming soon and I'm thinking about doing my boils outside in the back yard. I'd like to try and do full boils and I'm wondering if the side burner will put out enough BTUs to get 5 gallons boiling. It puts out a flame about...

I've read a enough threads here to get the impression that a full boil is better than a partial boil. I don't think I can do a full boil because I have a glass top electric stove and even if I could I'd be worried about boil-overs in my brewpot. So far on my first two batches I've followed the...

I was excited and nervous about trying my first batch of beer and cracked open a bottle after what I thought had been 3 weeks. It still looked cloudy but was sufficiently carbonated, with bubbles rising from the beer itself. Woohoo! Then I tasted it... Well, it kinda tasted like beer, like...

I've got my first batch in bottles and the second batch in the fermenter, both of which were ingredient kits purchased from the LHBS. For my next batch I'm thinking of trying a clone recipe (extract not FG) that has a list of ingredients and the amounts necessary but I have some questions on...

Hi all, I've read plenty of posts about whether or not to use a secondary and decided for myself that just using a primary is fine for what I want to do. Last weekend I decided to bottle my first batch last weekend and ran into some difficulty racking the beer into the bottling bucket. The...

I'm pretty sure my first batch of beer (an American Cream Ale) is done fermenting and I'm thinking about bottling this weekend. I haven't gone to a secondary, the beer is still in the initial fermenter and I'm on day 15. Here are my hydrometer readings: Day 1 (before adding the yeast): 1.038...

My homebrew kit came with a hydrometer and a hydrometer tube. What's the best way to remove a little bit of the fermented wort out of the fermenter with the least amount of risk of contamination? I suppose I could just pop off the lid and scoop some out but I was curious if there was another...

I brewed my first batch of beer (an 'American Cream Ale) last Saturday and everything went well I think. I made sure to cool the wort down to 75 degrees before adding the yeast, sealing the lid and putting the vapor lock on. According to what I've read, I'm supposed to be seeing 'a lot of...