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Making Ed-Wort's IPA which was my favorite extract brew so I figured it would be a good comparison. Here's my planned procedure. I know the timeline might get off but how does it look otherwise? Am I forgetting anything? And here's my Recipe. And then there's the water. My tap water looks...

This would be my first DIY recipe. I was inspired by the Pliny grain bill and threw together a hop schedule for lots of flavor and aroma. I want to take advantage of the insane hop prices at Rebel Brewer right now and get this sucker ordered tomorrow. How does it look? I'm not too sure about...

Any have a reason why this would be a bad idea? Most recipes simply state boil sucrose with a little water and a splash of lemon juice as an acid. Well my spray bottle of Starsan is closer than the lemon juice :) What about amount? Is "a couple of squirts" accurate? From what I gather it...

Just finished the boil for a last min brew day Hefeweizen. I only made the starter 8 hours ago and it hasn't done much yet. Would you go ahead a pitch the unfermented starter, or sanitize really really well, wait another 12 to 24 hours, then pitch?

Just brewed a batch last night that calls for dry hopping with 1oz of Centennial (10.0%) and 1oz of Crystal (3.5%). I couldn't get crystal at the LHBS so I'm substituting with Mt. Hood (5.5%). I plan on just tossing the whole ounce in, but I was wondering if anyone ever adjusts for alpha acid...

A home brewing buddy of mine recently moved out of state and gave me a crap load of hops he harvested from his well established bines last year. I'm guessing they're close to a year old at this point and have been stored in cheap freezer bags in his freezer. All the bags have lots of loose...

First off, I've realized that your first brew is very much a learning experience. I'm really looking forward to my second batch so I can avoid some of these issues and have a little more fun. Bottling batch #1 last night and everything was going fairly smoothly until racking time. I hadn't...

Alright, I'm still fairly new to all this (about to bottle my first batch and brew my 2nd and 3rd :mug: ) I'm planing a Stone IPA clone next and all the partial boil hop utilization issues between the increased gravity and dilution from top off is driving me nuts. What about attempting a 5...

Alright, just finished my first boil yesterday and its bubbling away now. I made a ginger ale following the recipe in this thread (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/ginger-ale-24326/), with a few changes. I only used 1.5 lbs. of ginger. 1/3 at 30 min, 1/3 at 15 min, and saving 1/3 for the...