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I have been doing some research to so to speak on ipa's. Going through old texts and what not. I come across a type of beer mentioned a lot , and that is the "october beer" apparently is was the predecessor t what we now call ipa's. The thing is I cannot find any in depth info on it. Does...

I use the batch sparge method. I always dump the strike water on the grains, instead of dumping the grains onto the water. Am i doing it wrong?

Recipe Type: All Grain Style: IPA Yeast: WLP041 Yeast Starter: No Batch Size (Gallons): 5.0 Grains 8.00 lb Pale 2 Row 8.00 lb Pilsner 1.00 lb Crystal 80L Hops 2.00 oz Zues 3.00 oz Columbus I don't know if the WLP041 will be strong enough to attenuate properly. I am looking at...

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After transferring my ESB to my secondary today i got a little bleach in the beer. I think i got maybe 2 or 3 eye drops worth in there. How will this affect my beer?

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Well im in the 4th day of a cream ale i brewed on tues. By wednesday night i had a good steady fermentation. I took a hydrometer test right after i pitched the yeast, and it was at about 1.014 i thought crap thats low. I also did a PM and forgot to crush the grains :(. Should i make a small DME...

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Well one of my brews is really astringent and i know i released tannins on one of my grain steeps. I boiled the crystal malt (i know i know). After searching around here i haven't found a definite answer if there is a possible way to reverse this. Does anyone have any ideas?

In total i added about 12oz of cascade hops in the boiling process, and put my left over hops in the primary. My question is this..... I would like to float some centennial or more cascade in the secondary. Will this effect the taste in anyway? E.g. More hoppy flavour or not, and will it rot...

Ok i just started an IPA today, and i have a few questions. I did not wash the yeast. I put the yeast straight into the primary at about 65-70 degrees. Is that ok? This was done at 8:30pm i got home at 3:00am The blow off tube was out of the top of the primary. Will this ruin the chance...