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Brewed a blonde ale yesterday and batch sparged for the first time. Needless to say I sparged way to fast and had terrible efficiency. 55% terrible in fact. If this fully fermented, which it should it would leave me with a 3.76 abv Blonde ale. This would be one of the styles I could get away...

Not sure if what I did was right, but this is what I did and got things going again. Batch Sparging for the first time and got a stuck sparge with about 2 gallons run-off. Tried stirring grain and vorlaufing a few times and didn't get much run off before it stopped again. So, I removed...

Racking my Robust Porter over to the secondary today on top of 1oz of lightly ground coffee. Should I add this straight to the secondary, or should I put it in a hop bag, then add it? What have you guys done in the past? Does it even matter?

Just bought a new bottle of Iodophor at the LHBS. When I got home, I noticed it had a date near the top of the bottle that read 4/20/11. I'm not sure if this is an expiration date, or a production date. I have another bottle here thats the same size, thats almost empty, but that one has no...

Plan on winging a Porter next week. This will be my last extract brew before flipping over to AG (yay!) I'm pretty sure I'm going to add some ground coffee beans to the secondary. Not sure how much yet, but after doing some reading about 2oz seems right. The hops I have in this recipe are...

I don't drink these often, and have yet to brew one, but I had a nice one at a brew fest a few weeks back and decided this would be my next home brew. I went through a few books of mine to come up with this. Im not really sure with the specialty grains, so if anyone has advice on that...

In the spirit of the largest looking moon in 18 years, ive dedicated the title of my beer to the super moon. This is an american pale ale. I've based this recipe off of one of my favorite pale ales from a local brewpub in Albany, NY. Says on their site they use Horizon hops to bitter, crystal...

Well after watching a few vids on youtube and reading through some threads on this website I decided to wash some yeast from my last IPA. I believe i used too much water (3/4 pints) when washing which left me with a ton of liquid of my growler. Im also not sure if I got a lot of good yeast or if...

Hey guys. Washed my yeast for the first time tonight. I thought I would be able to do it in a brown growler and be able to see the layers, so I'd know what to decant but I really can't see them that well. I probably should have used a clear growler but I don't have one. My LHBS isn't open until...

So Im preparing to wash yeast for the first time tomorrow. Ive watched a few videos on youtube and it seems simple enough. The issue i run into is the jar/container to store my yeast in the fridge. In the videos I've watched it looks like the man in the video stores them in canning jars. I...

I've made yeast starters before with vials of White Labs yeast. They instruct you for small/mid strength beers to make a starter with a pint of water, 1/2 cup of DME. I made a starter last night with a wyeast 1056 smack pack, using the same formula. I looked on their site and they recommend...

Thinking about brewing up an IPA in the next few weeks. Have never used Citra hops but have heard good things. Have also never used Palisade hops and don't know anyone who has. Figured I'd wing this, lemme know what you think! Type: Extract Date: 11/20/2010 Batch Size: 5.00 gal...

Hey guys. Brewed up AHS pumpkin ale kit last week. Everything went smooth during the brewing process. I pitched some windsor dry yeast and let ferment in the primary for a week before racking to the secondary for another week. My original gravity according to the kit should have been 1.052...

Have been fermenting an IPA for a little over a week now at around 68 degrees. Its been hot lately so I've been using a spare fridge to regulate the temperature of the beer in the fermenter. Some how i didn't turn my fridge all the way down last night and it turned on overnight and cooled my...

Brewed up an IPA the other day at the rents house. Should be a semi strong beer with an OG starting at 1.070. Im hoping to ferment down to around 1.017. Usually fermenting in my rents basement is fine. 1- because its usually cool, and 2- none of the beer I've made has been this strong. The...

Haven't made a yeast starter for a brew in about 6 months or so. I still have the DME from the last one I made in a zip lock bag. If I wanted to use this to make a starter tomorrow would it still be good to go or should I buy some more DME to make my starter? I'm not really sure of the shelf life.

Hey guys, Still somewhat of a noob with 5 beers under of my belt. With that being said I'm still an extract brewer. All the recipes that I find on this site and most places that are meant for extract brewing are generated through beersmith. Using these recipes assumes that you start with 4...

I brewed an IPA on Wednesday (all extract) and pitched Wyeast Ringwood Yeast. The brewing process went all according to plan. I pitched my yeast Wednesday evening. When I woke up Thursday morning my airlock was not bubbling. I found this weird, because in my past 4 brews ( Still a noobie )...

I have a question about how much water I should use when I boil. I've done one extract recipe and one mini mash recipe thus far and both have called for about 2.5 gallons of water to boil with my LME, grains and hops. After everything was done and cooled both recipes called to add my wort to 2...

Hey guys. Sorta new to home brewing as this will only be my 3rd batch. Next brew I'm wanting to brew is an American Brown Ale. The past 2 brews were kits I bought from AHS. I have the Complete Joy of Home Brewing and I found a recipe that fits what I'm going for(Atleast I think). I'm wanting...