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Greetings all, I stored two fermentation buckets (lids on but the airlock ports were open) worth of grain in my basement for about a week now (was planning on brewing last weekend but ran out of time). It has been pretty humid here and my basement has held around 75-80% humidity. I was thinking...

Greetings all, I have been toying with the idea of getting a hopback, perhaps the Blichman Hop Rocket. When discussing with a fellow homebrewer we got onto the topic of using it like a Randalizer during bottling. The idea being that one could pump fermented, un-carbonated beer from a keg into...

Greetings all, Hope everyone had a great Christmas. I have had about five batches in a row that have failed to reach the target gravity. These have covered the range of styles, starting gravities and yeast strains/forms. Everyone of them stuck at 1.02 to 1.018, and all had a noticeable...

Greetings all, I am planning a New Years Eve party and am trying to figure out my keg situation. I have room for two kegs in my keggerator and think I should have a keg of a robust porter and an IPA at the ready for New Years. As back up I have a Lefe style Belgian Blonde (oddly enough I have...

Greetings all, I just moved back to Cambridge from DC where I had an inline water filter. What are peoples' thoughts on using Cambridge (Porter Square neighborhood if it matters) water for brewing? The water tastes fine though every now and then I pick up the faintest odor of chlorine. Should I...

Greetings all, I just moved back to Cambridge from DC where I had an inline water filter. What are peoples' thoughts on using Cambridge (Porter Square neighborhood if it matters) water for brewing? The water tastes fine though every now and then I pick up the faintest odor of chlorine. Should I...

Second question, assuming the local shops suck, I was thinking I would pick up a few 55# sacks of grain here and haul them to Cambridge with the rest of my crap. I typically rip through a 55# sack of grain in a matter of a month or so but this is typically because I buy one with several batches...

Greetings all. So I have a couple of questions centering around the recipe below: Francine Style: American IPA Boil Size: 5.65 Gal IBU's: 31.75 Batch Size: 5.50 Gal Color: 5.3 SRM c Boil Time: 20 minutes OG: 1.066 FG: 1.015 ABV: 6.68 % Efficiency:75 % Grains & Adjuncts...

Greetings all, I am planing on making a dunkelweizen this weekend. I was going to use my normal hefeweizen recipe (60% wheat, 20% Pils, 20% Munich) but use a double decoction mash to get the color and caramel flavor needed. I have a couple of questions. Was going to dough in for a protein rest...

Greetings all. I have been thinking about a MO SMaSH lately since I have a bunch of MO in the basement. I have not been able to make up my mind whether to use Fuggles or Cascade... So I decided to do both. Both will be an IPA. I set up the recipes to have matching OG and IBUs with matching late...

So I was planning on making a Russian Imperial Stout this weekend (OG 1.105) and was thinking that I would drop it onto a yeast cake from a previous batch. I currently have a Scottish Ale on 1728 and an ESB on 1429. The question is which one... I am leaning towards 1429 but am concerned it...

Greetings all, As a home brewer in DC and with the summer heat I have had a hard time getting my wort down to pitching temp using my immersion chiller. My tap water is simply too warm. So i was thinking I could use my tap water to star the process and then use a submersible pump to move ice...

Greetings all, I just got my hands on a pound of Amarillo and I have about 20# of Munich in the basement. I was thinking about a Munich/Amarillo SMaSH. Recipe looks something like this: Fermentation Steps Name Days / Temp Primary 14 days @ 68.0°F Bottle/Keg 14 days @ 74.0°F Grains...

I recently took a shot at making a rye beer. I made only a one gallon batch as I have never brewed with rye before. As it was a one gallon batch I went a little crazy and made the recipe very rye heavy as follows: 2 lbs malted rye 12 oz Maris Otter 10 oz Munich Single step infusion mash...