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I just received the results from my first competition - a recently brewed IPA (14B) I (and every civilian who tasted it) absolutely loved and a porter (12B) I brewed a year ago and happened to have some bottles left. Of course, my beloved IPA received a pedestrian 24.5 and the porter I...

I'm trying to decide if I want to jump on a pretty good 10g boil kettle deal on CL (the spike brewing deal being discussed in a couple other threads). My concern is that the kettle is 14" in diameter and my propane burner (turkey fryer) is only 12 3/4". Will the burner work effectively with...

I brewed Jim Baumann's Milk Stout kit from MoreBeer! today. The instructions indicate the OG should be 1.055-1.059. I took a sample before pitching the yeast and got 1.066 at 60 degrees. I followed the instructions mostly to the letter. The only change I made was adding 4 oz of lactose at...

I know there is a bit of debate about whether or not pouring 2 gal of hot wort into 3 gal of cold water causes unwanted aeration and off flavors - going forward I am going to try and cool the wort before combining just to be safe. However, I've seen many references to vigourously aerating...

I started brewing from kits around 6 years ago. I made 5 or 6 batches of decent beer (reading through threads here I realize now I bottled too soon) and one sour batch of Scottish Strong (which taught me not to use my mouth for the siphon). I got away from brewing, however, when my...