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I love homebrew and I love drinking some while sitting on my patio with a nice warm fire when the weather gets cool. After I had gone through my third metal fireplace (rusting out) in as many years, I knew I wanted a permanent outdoor fireplace. I sketched out some designs and looked over some...

I am trying to put a recipe in beer smith and it calls for briess 2 row brewers malt. I don't have that description in my beer smith list of grains. What are the specs and profile for this malt?

http://trappist-beers.com/monks-decide-to-export-70-000-boxes-with-special-westvleteren-12-version/ This would be awesome to get my hands on this stuff. Probably get hoarded by the friends of whoever is going to be the U.S. distributor.

When I mash, I batch sparge. I add my strike water,mash for an hour then mash out and collect my first runnings then the sparge water to collect my second runnings. Which of the mash profiles on beersmith should I be using? The wording is weird and I may be using the wrong profile.

I have drank in allot of places around the country and some places know how to throw it down and some cities just don't have a clue. To start it all off, I will vote for my hometown of New Orleans. Yeah we have Mardi Gras and Jazzfest and Voodoo fest and some other fest every other weekend, but...

I did a batch of Chocolate coffee stout about 8 or so months ago. I put it in the carboy in my spare bedroom where it has been. I got busy and lazy so I never got around to racking it on top of the coffee and bottling it up. My question is, is that long in the carboy a bad thing or not. I...

I love the Levitation Ale from Stone Brewery. Although it does have a noticeable grapefruit taste, it doesn't seem so overpowering. I have experimented with some clone recipes, (some awful and some decent) and have one that is really like Stone's but the grapefruit taste is too much. I am...

I am on only my 4th all grain brew, so I don't have enough past experiences to answer this question myself. So here it goes out to you experts. I brewed on Wednesday the 24th. I followed the recipe to the T. I monitored my mash temperature as well as my temps once the chiller went in. Before I...

I have a bag of priming sugar at 4.1 ounces. Should this be about right for a 5 gallon batch. How much water do I need to dissolve this in before adding it to the bottling bucket?

Brewed a batch of Christmas Ale yesterday and had what I hope is not a major problem. I used 1 1/2 qts of water for 1 pound of grains (14.5 lbs) for my strike. Using a new boiling pot, my measuring stick would not work, so I had to guess at my volume. When all was said and done after my...

I brewed a 5 gallon batch of amber ale (a stone levitation clone) the other night. I cooled my wort down to just under 80 degrees. I would have liked it a bit cooler, but a time issue was looming, so I pitched it at about 78 or so. I put the airlock in and called it a night. The question and...

Hello everyone. Getting back into brewing and going all grain. I will be shooting out some questions about my current brew and look forward to all the experienced feedback.