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I've been dry hopping in the keg my last few IPA's. I have been pressuring the keg right after transferring and hopping. It seems I get a great hop aroma with the first dozen pints or so, but then it fades quickly. I'm wondering if I should be letting the dry hops sit for 5 days or so before...

Completed my first AG yesterday, an IPA with ~14 lbs grain. A lot of changes to my setup since the last partial batch, but I think I can correct by next brew day. Biggest issue was missing my strike temp. Recipe called for about ~152-154 mash, even after preheating my cooler MLT my final mash...

Anyone tried to use a counter-flow chiller with just gravity feeding out of the brew kettle valve? I have a typical coiled wort chiller that I would like to convert to a CF but I don't have a pump (nor do I intend to invest in one anytime soon).

Simple 5 gal extract brew with speciatly grains, English Light Ale. Starting gravity 1.042. Pitched around 74 F and had normal activity for 24 hours, but temp in fermenter was not coming down despite being in ~70 F ambient. I let the room temp fall back to ~64 F over night and the next...

Need some help with a few oatmeal stout recipes I'm looking at. Doing extract and steeping the specialty grains/oats, but I have no directions or experience with the oats. Are these flaked oats ready to go into the mash/steep or do they need to be milled/ground like grains? I don't recall...

Brewed my first full boil extract batch using a wort chiller a few weeks back. When I racked to secondary I was shocked at the amount of trub in the primary. Can some of this be from the cold break that occurs more effectively with the use of the wort chiller? I dropped 5 gal in the brew pot...

Call me an idiot if you must... but after years of doing partial boil extracts and always wonder "what would happen if I boiled all 5 gallons?"... I finally found a great thread on this site relating to this topic. Now with my recently purchased wort chiller I'm ready to give it a shot. I...

So I first brewed about 15 years ago, and recall that dry yeast was all that was available. I started using liquid yeast (vials not the smack pack) sometime in 2000 timeframe. Now I live in Maine and I cannot buy the liquid yeast anywhere, only a few brew shops around and they carry dry only...

So I need to buy a wort chiller... need = want. Been looking at immersion chillers, copper coil. I could get all technical and do some calculations to determine the best size to buy, but experience beats effort in my book, so looking for some feedback. I currently do extract and partial...

Just brewed my first batch after a 4 year intermission... Started back of slow, an extract brew with some specialty grains, Bass Ale recipe. Can't wait, to brew the next one and taste this one! Planning to get some more equipment for all grain brews but will be looking here for some advice.