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i've been trying to find an answer to this and can't figure it out. so, i used to purchase all of my grain from brewmasters warehouse because i was getting great efficiency with their crush. since they are no longer in business i recently went to northern brewer. i brewed a wit last weekend...

hello all, i've been playing around with the ez water calculator and i have a question that has stumped me. listening to the brewstrong episode on water, palmer stresses the importance of RA and even guives guidelines based on the srm of the beer. i can find no way of having an RA in his...

well, i live outside of philly and we managed to get 12 inches of snow in october. our power was out for 4 days and i'm worried about my frozen yeast bank that took 2 years to build up. i burried all of the vials outside in a pile of snow and dug them up as soon as the power came back on and...

i guess this belongs in general techniques, if not my bad. i was just wandering if brewers with larger brew kettles (think 3bbl) do their boil with the lid on. how could they get away with all the steam if you operating in, say, a brewpub?

alright, i finally decided to do my first partigyle brew day. an american barley wine/whatever comes out of the second runnings. i am going to mash low (around 149) to add to the fermentability for the barley wine. i don't want my lighter brew from the second runnings to turn out to dry due...

i am planning on brewing a sierra nevada/dogfish head life and limb barley wine clone that i came up with. they carbonate with birch syrup and i'm having trouble finding out how much of this to use. i can't find a potential SG for the syrup or anything. any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

i hope someone can help me with this. i started cold crashing my ales and like the idea of bottling them cold so the chill haze protiens don't return. i've heard you can do this with no problem. the thing is i don't know how much priming sugar to use. i am using beersmith and there is, of...

i was wondering if there was any way to succsefully rig up a hopback if i don't use a counterflow chiller. i love my immersion chiller, but also love the idea of using a hopback to filter and flavor the wort. anybody ever played around with this?

i have recently started cold crashing all of my ales to try to clear them up. my understanding is that you can get the chill haze inducing protiens to form and after a while they will settle to the bottom leaving a clear brew. my question is, can i just take the carboy out of the fridge and...

i just have to give props to brewmasters warehouse. i quit my local homebrew store in PA because i can order from these guys. if you are looking for a great crush on your grains, reasonable prices, and availability for anything brewing, give these guys a try. delivery is cheap and fast. they...

question...i have tried gelatin and cold crashing. i get a rigourous boil and use a wort chiller to cool the wort. i am still getting a haze in my beer. don't get me wrong, they taste great. i just want to spruce up the looks a little bit. the only thing that i can think of is my sparging...

if anyone could help me figure this out i would be thrilled. I added gelatin to my secondary to clear a tripel. this is the first time i've tried this, but i did my homework and read up on it and followed the procedure that most people here say works. after 5 days in secondary i still have...

i doubt anyone is going to have a clone recipe for this one yet (if you do please post it...), but if you have a chance, grab a bottle or two of this. one of the best brews i have had in a long time. HAPPY NEW YEAR...

i have had problems with efficiency for my last 3 batches (all 60%). i know it has to be my sparging. i'm doing brews with fairly big O.G.s (shooting for 1.07-1.09 on most) and the strike water isn't leaving much room in my 6 gallon boil pot for sparge water. should i get a bigger pot and...

i have a few batches under my belt, and recently ran into some cash. my question to you seasoned brewers is whether or not i should buy a kegerator. bottling for me is easy enough, but i am ambitious and constantly want to move forward in this hobby. i have no understanding of a kegerator...

i have had good success (or dumb luck) using a sanitizing option on my dishwasher for sanitizing a bunch of bottles at one time. just pop them in and walk away for 45 minutes and i'm ready for bottling. the dishwasher heats up high enough to kill bacteria. what i'm wondering is if anybody...

i just brewed a delirium tremons clone. the original poster of ter recipe said to let it sit in primary for at least a month and secondary for about 6. i've never heard of any brew that needed so long in the primary. i was really planning on going in the secondary for a couple of weeks for...

hey everyone, just finished brewing a delerium tremons clone today and i'm trying to work out my efficiency. problem is, this is my first recipe where i have added sugar (candi) to the boil. how do i take that into account when doing the calculations by hand? the hydrometer measurement is...

hey everyone, i've been asking quite a bit of questions lately, but i'm new at this and hope you guys can get me pointed in the right direction. i want to make a barley wine, but don't have a boil pot large enough to hold the volume of mash water and sparge water required. is it normal...

hey everyone, i'm fairly new at this all grain thing. i just made an ipa batch and while mashing, seriously screwed up the water temperature that i added to mash in. i was trying to get the temp to about 154, but got nowhere near that. i ended up having to add quite a bit more hot water to...