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I'm going to be making a starter for a bells two hearted clone soon. I'm harvesting the yeast from bottles of Bells amber ale. My calculated OG is 1.062 and a batch size of 5.5g. Using mr.malty it looks like i'll need around 1.5L of starter to get my yeast numbers up to a sufficient...

I've mostly stuck with AHS kits, but want to try my own recipe now and need some help. I've tried to model this from eschatz's all grain recipe. Let me know what you think before I order and start brewing, thank you! I plan on mashing the grains at 154 for 60 minutes (1.5q/#), batch...

Hey guys, I'm trying to get my hydrometer (calibrated at 60F) dialed in here. At 70F with distilled water, it reads 0.096. I put this into beersmith's calibration tool and it says the gravity is truly 0.096. The beer I just brewed had an OG of 1.064 @ 80F. Corrected using beersmith, this...

Ok, so i was pretty excited to get my mozz cheese kit in the mail today from AHS (Austin Homebrew Supply). Since Kroger's milk is not labeled as being pasteruized or ultrapasteurized, i decided to go with some info from a link I found on here. I made 112 oz of milk from dry non-fat milk...

Hey guys, I've made about 5 batches of beer so far, and they've all turned out really good. I wanted to make sure my technique was good though, as I'm still confused I'f im doing the sparge step correctly. I'm not at home, so I can't comment on the grain:water ratio for the sparge. I'll...

Hi guys, I have a hefeweizen from AHS 1 day in the primary and was starting to think about how much priming sugar I would need. I have about 5.5G so after we siphon off the top, I'll have around 5-5.25G to bottle. The kit came with 4.5oz of priming sugar (corn sugar). I've checked out the...

Hi guys, The last batch I brewed was a little short of the calculated OG. It was a kit from AHS and should have been about 1.050 but mine was 1.045. I'm wondering how to correct this. I'm still a noob (brewed 3 batches). Can I add concentrated DME w/ water to bring up my overall OG before...

Hey guys, Quick question. Does anyone try to remove any of the trub from the boil when transferring the wort to your fermenter? I use pelleted hops so by the end of the boil they're pretty much everywhere in the wort. I never worry too much about it and just poor the entire wort after being...

I brewed my first batch of beer over this past weekend. Right now I'm organizing my notes. I just realized I really don't know the definition of steep vs mash or which I did. I thought I was mashing, but correct me if I'm wrong. I brewed BM's blue balls belgian wheat. I loosely followed a...