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Hi all! Brewed an extract (my third ) batch of oatmeal stout. It's OG was 1.067. The recipe suggests (beersmith) that it will finish at 1.016 It has been in primary for almost 30 days and is reading 1.032. sitting at around 68-72 degrees for the entire time. What should i do? (By the...

Hey guys. Brewing my first exract stout and after plugging the numbers into Beersmith i'm only getting 12.8 IBU's. I cam up with the recipe myself (perhaps this is foolish) and im only using 10z of NB bittering hops at 60 min. In all the styles of stouts that Beersmith list none are...

Hey guys. I have had my first two batches (hefe and APA) bottled for 3 weeks now. I used a secondary for the pale but not for the hefe. I also used a whirlfloc in the pale and had it fementing for total of three weeks as opposed to the hefe which i bottled after only 9 days. Here's the...

Paid a visit to my LHBS and picked up a funnel and screen expecting to simplify and shorten the time involved in transferring to primary. Cooled the wort, sanitised the equipment and popped the filter into the bottom of the funnel. What i found was that i constantly had to try and scrape the...

Recently purchased Beersmith and brewed my third (extract ) batch tonight. I decided on an ESB and didn't use a specific recipe. According to Beersmith with the extract and hops and late addition boil i should get an OG of 1.054 My actual OG was 1.057. Is this a normal deviation for...

Bottled my first batch, a hefe, yesterday after 9 days in primary. The recipe was extract and final gravity had been reached before i bottled. I used 3/4 cup of dextrose with 1 1/2 cups of water and boiled for 5 minutes. Then racked the beer into a bottling bucket on top of the sugar. I am...

I have some ancient bottles that needed cleaning so i looked on the search here and found people recommend Oxiclean. The only oxiclean i could find last night was the yellow lidded one (that i believe has fragrance) The stuff works great. I soaked the 25 year old bottles last night in cold...

Hey gang. Getting ready to bottle my first batch and i found on craigslist 8 cases of the old stubby beer bottles from a guy who hasn't brewed in about 5 years. He claims he rinsed them after each use and they have been stored upside down in his basement since his last batch. I currently have...

I have about 3 cases of brown 500ml plastic bottles that i got from a brew on premise before i got into homebrewing. I'm ready soon to bottle my first batch so the question is... How long will the beer keep in thse bottles? I'm told if you store them on their sides they will last longer...

I have reading about grains that must be mashed and cannot be steeped and one of those listed as mashing only (according to an old BYO magazine) is Munich malt. I have just just brewed a Paulaner clone from clone brews which was an extract recipe with steeping grains and it called for 4oz of...

Ok so i'm a bit confused over the bottling situation. I'm lead to believe there are two types of bottles, the twist off and the pry off. Are there two types of caps also? do you need to use the twist caps with the twist bottles and vice versa? Are the pry off bottles superior? You guys...

While boiling the wort does it make sense to add hot water to top off to 2.5 gallons or whatever? It seems to me that adding cold water stops the nice rolling boil i have going and it takes a couple of minutes for the boil to get going again. Some have even suggested that this would adversely...

Was cooling my wort tonight while getting the primary ready and wanted to make sure that the stopper i had would fit nicely in the carboy (not sure why i thought it wouldn't) Anyhow, the damn stopper came loose and fell into the carboy that i had just sanitized. Luckily i had a plastic bucket...

Getting ready to brew my second batch (a hefe) in a few minutes and was getting everything ready when i noticed the only grain bag i have has a good size hole in the bottom of it. Is this an issue and how can i safely remove the grains after the bag is removed if that's what is recommended...

I picked up .5 Lb of munich malt that was graciously cracked for me by the LHBS on Friday. Question. Since i'm now not able to brew this hefe until next weekend would it make sense to pick up another half pound of malt for freshness sake? How long does cracked grain stay fresh?

Planning on brewing a hefe later this evening (extract) with Wyeast 3056. A buddy of mine who quit homebrewing gave me a couple of jars of what were labelled "wheat wort" and a mini-carboy and gave me directions for mixing the liquid yeast and wort in the jug. I'm wondering if there is...

Getting ready to do my second batch on Sunday ( hefe-weizen) For my first, it was recommended by a friend that i add half my LME at the beginning of the boil and the other half of the 7lbs at the 5 minute mark. For my hefe-weizen i have 6 pounds of wheat DME. What difference, if any does it...

Is it possible to not pitch enough yeast? I brewed my first (extract) batch with what i believe to be about 5 grams of safale s-04 . Withing 24 hours it was swirling away like mad and krausen threated to blow out of the airlock. Now 4 days after pitching things have slowed down to almost no air...

First time brewer Here's the recipe 1lb crystal 110 steeped 20 minutes 3.5 kg LME half added at 60 min half added at 5 minutes 1 oz northern brewer at 60 minutes 1 oz cascade at 20 mniutes 1/2 oz hallertauer at 10 minutes whirfloc tablet at 10 minutes 1/2 oz cascade at 5 minutes...