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To all... My friend and I finished building our brew stand today made out of aluminum Rexroth extruded pieces and ran a first initial test on about 10 gallons of water. I noticed after 10-15 minutes of burning, the stand was extremely hot due to the burners being recessed. We decided to move...

Can anyone help me with this water profile? Just looking to get some information and how to improve it: 80 ppm - Calcium 70 ppm - Magnesium 20 ppm - Sulfate 40 ppm - Alkalinity pH - 8.4 Any help would be rocking.

Hi all, Just poking around to see what everyone does to anchor the hop twine to the bed/dirt/ground? Currently, I have the twine dangling freely on the ground and letting the hop vine climb up it, but i'd like something a little more taut for the summer... Cheers.

Hi All, I hounded the forums here and really couldn't fine an answer that sounded too definite (although I think there isn't one), but I would like to get a best practice most use on here... The gory details: Brewed an Imperial Red yesterday... going to ferment it and then keg it. I won't...

Hello world, I plan on brewing a Kolsch this weekend.. I was going to let it ferment at lower ale temps and then lager it for some time (not truly necessary but was going to anyway).. I read around and I see it isn't good to lager in the primary. So I was wondering, after fermentation is...

Random question for y'all. I'm thinking on going to a HERMS / RIMS down the road. Currently when doing AG, after mash, I collect the first runnings until the wort is clear (free of sediment, grain, etc) before I let it drain into my brew kettle. How is this process accomplished with a HERMS /...

Hi everyone, I picked up one of these "Pro-lab water quality" test kits on a whim from True Value yesterday. I was going to try it out today. Are they any good or would it be more accurate to send off a water sample to a lab? Anyone used these before? Thanks all!

Hi all, I have a porter frrmentating in my basement for 4 days now. The temp is currently holding at 58F. The optimum yeast range (east coast yeast - old newark beer) is between 58-68F. I'm wondering if I should move it to a warmer area since it's going to snow on Friday in Philadelphia or...

Hi all, I have never made an IPA recipe and was going to be brewing this as my next AG batch... Do the hops seem like a nice mixture?? I'm going kind of the floral/hoppy route with this batch. Any advice would be appreciated! I was also thinking about subbing in 3.5 lbs of Maris Otter and...

I completed my first all-grain brew yesterday. It was for a Ordinary Bitter recipe I created with BeerTools. As expected, it didn't go as smoothly as I have planned it. I think I know why and learned from my mistakes..maybe some of the seasoned all-grain brewers can chime in.. I couldn't...

Hello all, I am doing my first all-grain batch on Saturday and I'm trying to be as prepared as possible.. I've been reading 2 ways of mashing and was wondering which is perferred.. Do you add the grain to the mash water or add the water to the grain? I read one method was better for...

Hi all, I am going to be brewing my first All-Grain batch this weekend, pretty stoked... I created a nice recipe for an ordinary bitter. I am going to be using 3 oz of Goldings during the 90min boil (60/30/1min).. I was wondering if anyone has dry hopped a bitter and how it turned out? I...

Hi All, this is my first Extract recipe I decided to concoct after downloading BeerTools.. however, being new to recipe formulation, I could use some tips... Porter ---------------- 5.5lb Dark DME .75lb Crystal malt 120L .5 lb Belgian Biscuit .25lb Belgian Chocolate Malt .25lb Victory Malt...

Hello everyone, I have a quick question that hopefully brings an answer that won't upset me... Background: I brewed a Oatmeal Stout on Sunday (2/7) and on Thursday morning (2/11) I did not see any movement in the carboy. In a semi-drunken, pissed off state of mind, I decided to shake a...

I just got done brewing an English IPA.. I dipped my vial of liquid Wyeast (London Ale Yeast) into my star-san bucket and began opening the cap when yeast started fizzing out like a shaken soda.. I tried as best as I could to have the foamy yeast drip into the carboy. I would say I lost about...

Just thinking back on my IPA I made on Sunday, I realized I never put the hop pellets for dry hopping in the refridgerator. They are still sealed. If I put them in the refridgerator today are they still OK to be used? or should I buy some fresh ones for when the time comes.. They have been...

Sorry, I do not have the recipie on me... But I made this clone this weekend and the yeast I was given was a Wyeast Belgian Wit... I thought saison's use saison yeast??? Also, since it is a Belgian Wit yeast I used, should I still ramp up the temperatures to 80-85 degrees during...

First of all: :mad: Yesterday I finished brewing an IPA... had the the floating thermometer in the brew kettle while it was chilling down in an ice bath. I hit the 85-90 degrees mark, and poured the wort in the carboy and topped it off to 5 gallons with cold water. When I was cleaning up...

I am going to bottle my Belgian Dubbel this weekend.. It has been sitting in the primary fermenter for about 3 weeks now. There seem to be some particles suspended in the carboy.. They are neither sinking nor floating, but just kind of sitting there... I would of thought that this would...

I have a question regarding priming sugar. I have some batches fermenting now and I don't think any of them are exactly 5 gallons. I'd say most are around 4.5 Gallons or a little less.. I am assuming the ratio is 1 oz. of sugar per gallon of beer, is that correct? When I am going to prime...