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Brewed a cream Of 3 crops recently. Used 3 lbs of flaked maze and 1 lb of rice solids dry extract Brew went smoothly. Fermented as planed, kegged at 1.010. BUT it's very sweet tasting. Is this a result of the rice or corn (never used either of them before). The beer is great There are no...

Been kegging for about 6-7 months. Just swapped from picnic taps in a fridge to 525s on a keezer. Everything converted over fine no pressure problems. Last night I swapped an empty keg out. The New keg was cold and under pressure at 12psi in the fridge for about 8 or 10 days (after an initial...

Bewing a black ipa this weekend and i'm wanting a big piney hop flavor. I'm looking at buttering with warrior, flavoringand aroma with chinook and anthanum. Is this gonna get me where I wanna go? Any suggestions are welcome. Got about 25 varieties in the freezer so what ever is piney I wanna...

ok, this will be my first hefeweizen. got a rough idea of ingredients, but would love some tips on mash schedule/temps. 5 lb Belg Pils (belgian because it's what i have available) 4 lb Ger Wheat 1 lb Munich (just because.... bad idea?) hops 1 oz 4%aa whole leaf Tettnang @ 60 min for ~12...

Recently finished my keezer, my temp controller (ranco) is set for 38-42 degrees and workedgreat in the keezer before I added the collar. Now the thing runs nonstop and barely holds 40*. My collar is VERY well insulated so that shouldn't be the problem. I have a woods 10cf freezer. Any chance...

Well, i was planning on taking pics of the process, but i got lazy (and impatient) so i just rolled through and took pics at the end. My goal was to be able to have 4 taps, and have room to "force-carb" 1-2 kegs to have ready cold when another empties, OR to be able to fit a carboy for...

Was going to brew an IPA yesterday and keg 15 gal of various brews..... Grain mill broke, so rather than my usual 80% efficiency I got closer to 50%. Ipa i was kegging had weird bubbles on the surface, smelled and tasted ok, but looked infected as crap. kegging 10 gal of cream of 3 crops...

A few brews recently I've gotten an odd off taste, can't quite place it. And the yeast cakes are lumpy and congealled. Thought it was bad washed S04, but uli just got the same thing with US05 that I know was good. Cause I used it for 2 brews and one was fine. I've been very particular in my...

Looking at assembling my first keg set up. just picked up 2 pin locks, 5lb tank, and reg w/ picnic tap and one gas line. I want to add 6 more kegs, and do 4 taps in the kegerator. I see allthese various sizes of hose 1/4, 5/16, and others... then i see some sites with "universal hose" and...

Stumbled upon these guys via google shopping. Definately don't wanna buy any thing but kegs from them but 4 used, un cleaned pin locks for $65 bucks seems too goo to pass up. Emailed them and saw their guarentee that every keg will function or be refunded cost and shipping. Anyone purchased...

did my first all grain in January, took about 7 hours (from milling grain to closing primary). I expected that the transition to all grain would up my brew day time, but was ok with it. well, i think i may be changing my mind on that... 2 brews in the past 14 days, both 5 gallon batches. I...

ok, so i bottled an amber in April, bottles come back flat after 4 weeks... wated 4 more... still flat. I've gotten a total of 3 carbed bottles... and one of them nearly exploded when i popped it open. Tonight i opend the first bottle of the Triple i brewed in feb, bottled in early...

Gonna do a perle single-hopped RIS next week... had this recipe roughly figured out for a few months, but want to offer it up for criticisms. the only other AG stout i've done came out very astringent and thin-boddied. ( due to too high % of roasted grains, and my mash temp dropping to the...

bottled a batch of centennial blonde last night... The AC went out for a few days while it was in primary, temp upstairs was nearly 100, downstairs (where the fermentation closet is) reached mid 80s. I was affraid i'd get some impact, but this was a killer strong cloud of sulfur stench that...

so SWMBO wanted a honey wheat a couple months back. seeing as I was going to spend about 15ish bucks on wheat malt by the pound, i went ahead and got a whole sack of it for about 30. So now i have a bunch of wheat malt to use up. I was thinking of doing a chocolate wheat and using my...

friday night i racked a scotish 70/- to secondary, leaving the WYeast Scottish Ale Yeast cake in the bottom of the primary, fully intending to brew a Wee Heavy saturday morning and re-use the yeast cake.... well, holiday weekends being what they are, it's sunday afternoon and ive just turned...

20 lb pilsen malt 5 lb munich malt 1 lb cara pils/dextrine 1 lb crystal 15 L 10 oz Crystal 60 L 8 oz Crystal 120L Mash w/ 9 gal @ 152 for 60 min. Collected 7.5 gal of 1.110 wort batch sparge (second runnings, 5.5 gal of 1.030 wort. not sure the quantities (cause i didn't write...

so wednesday i decided to do an impromptu brew session. Had some errands to run and tasks to do around the house, but thought i could squeeze a brew in (had 5 empty fermenters so i had to fill one up). Decided to brew an Rye Pale Ale, put a hopper/feed assembly on my grain mill, then went...

Ok, so i'm just breaking into really, really loving hoppy beers. I've always liked IPA's and IIPA's every now and then with certain foods, but recently i just want to drink them all the time.... it started when i was given the hops for the following brew by a guy who was getting out of brewing...

bottled an amber about 3 or 4 weeks ago (forgot to write the date in my brew log, so i'm guessing a little, but i know it a minimum of 3 weeks). Yesterday, as per usual for a month after bottling, i put 3 bottles in the fridge to check them out. Last night i cracked the first one, poured it...