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so i've been brewing biab for quite a few batches now with the mash/boil being done in my converted keg and plate chiller. great brews so far, but have an engineering issue i'm trying to work around. i have been using a bazooka filter in the bottom of the keg screwed into my 1/2" ball...

so i've been brewing biab for some time now and have pretty much figured out how to nail my mash temps and volume (boil volume too) while doing full volume boils in my converted keg (on a killer bayou burner). so my quandry lies in trying to figure out how much i might expect to lose to trub...

hey all: got a stuck fermentation and YES i HAVE read all of the awesome input that has been posted here prior to posting this. just a last ditch attempt and would appreciate any help. anyhow, it was a a light belgian apricot wheat that was intended for friends and family so as not to...

hey all: recently brewed a belgian strong and everything pretty much went as planned. however, after three weeks in the bottle the beer is crystal clear and yet pours very cloudy. so any inisght on this? when i say 'cloudy' i'm not talking about a little bit of crap floating around in...

hey all: got a question about an amber i brewed about a week ago and hope somebody here can help. i do biab brewing and over my last few batches have been getting lousy efficiency. tried a number of things to correct the situation but still no dice. and yes, my grain is EXTREMELLY fine...

sorry if this has been asked before; did a search and couldn't really find what i was looking for. so just got done making my first ag belgian golden strong and will be looking at bottling soon. beersmith has got the style at 2.3-2.9 volumes, yet i believe that i've seen some posts...

well, not really IN the snow... kidding. after extensive brewing in southern california i am now doing my brewing in massachusetts. i know, i know, why did i move :( anyhow, i have previously, for 5 gallon batches, usually used a boil volume of about 3.5 gallons as this is about as much...

was looking for recipes for this and haven't had a lot of luck. the commercially available stuff i really like and would be stoked to make at home. anybody got a recipe for this? thanks. erik

been brewing a few beers that utilized a bunch of hops the latest of which is a sculpin clone (7 or 8 types i think). my issue is that i'm losing a ton of beer to the hops, especially with this brew. how to fix? do i need to make a bigger batch and just increase ingredients? or is there...

hey guys and gals: apologies if this is a duplicate of other messages but searched and wasn't able to find quite what i was looking for. am making an extract version of this beeer and had a concern about my FG: it's been in primary for 5 days now, airlock bubbling is about once per 70-80...

hey guys, first post here and hope i'm doing it in the right forum. i've done a few rounds now and things have turned out alright. however, on this last batch, i made a steam beer that, when running it through beersmith i should have had an OG of about 1.071. i ended up with 1.047...