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Hi, So I purchased the new Stone brewery book. It's great! But there seems to be a mistake in the recipe for their 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. The beer was 9.2% ABV (stated in the book, and on their website http://www.stonebrew.com/12th/ale/) but the recipe says OG...

So I was all excited for the first brew with my new 9 gallon brew pot, and had the mash water at strike temp in it, when I noticed it's leaking from the spigot. It's coming from the threaded "close nipple", at the threaded joint on the brewpot (not at the point where the threading joins with the...

I'm thinking of upgrading from my 5g brew pot to a 9g one. Like this one: http://www.homebrewing.org/ONE-WELD-9-Gallon-Stainless-Steel-pot-_p_1683.html I've brewed 50+ batches, but I'm not really into the whole equipment obsession thing. I try to only buy stuff if I think it's going to...

I've been reading up on whirlpooling and have done a number of searches on HBT... but none of the threads have seemed to answer the question of why I would want to whirlpool, as a homebrewer? For a microbrewery doing 15-barrel batches I can see them not wanting a couple dozen pounds of trub...

Check out this awesome shelving I built in my broom closet a couple weeks ago. For background, I live in a small city studio (~450 sq ft) so I have to use the space very efficiently. With my first 10 batches under my belt, I’m now building up my pipeline to about 5 to 6 batches bottle...

Ok, so I know there have been several other threads on Pliny the Elder, but the one thing I haven't been able to figure out after reading them all is - how does Vinnie (Russian River brewer) get his FG so low? How do you get a super low FG with a high OG recipe? I know adjuncts / corn sugar...

First, a warning this has a fair amount of math geekery. So stop reading if you don't like that. I just finished my 4th partial mash using the BIAB technique. After the 1st one I started taking pre-boil gravities (PBG) so I could see how effective the mash was and be able to adjust the...

Thank you Michelob! (Never thought I'd say that...!) The Michelob area at Fremont Oktoberfest last night had chests full of 0.5oz bags of Hallertau hops (nitrogen packed I assume). I got about 6-8 bags, so now I have 3 or 4 oz of free Hallertau. I doubt there were many other...

So I was at my work's annual company meeting today where we had free beer at the end of it. I got a cup (it was at the baseball stadium, so the beer comes in plastic cups) of Redhook ESB and immediately noticed it tasted odd. The taste was slightly sour, and slightly lighter in body and less...

This is not a big deal, but just wondering if anyone knows if light/UV can affect the color of beer, particularly the krausen. I noticed this weird pattern on my stout which is at hour 36 of fermentation. Half of the krausen has big brown bubbles, like the surface of the moon, and the other...

How is this even possible? Just finished a 4 hour brew session and took my gravity, and I'm stunned. I totally expected bad efficiency on my first partial mash using the brew in the bag technique -- but not this bad. I was hoping for 70% efficiency, but according to BeerSmith I got 35%...

Seattle is going through a heat wave, and my top-floor, sunny apartment is hitting 100 F during the day and 94 F at night. I expect it to stay at 100 F for about 6 days. I have about 2 1/2 batches of beer in my closet (12.5 gallons). One batch I just started bottled conditioning 2 days ago, and...