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I've never posted a recipe I've come up with here before, but I want to make a fantastic Scotch Ale this Saturday. Opinions or criticism? Amount Item Type % or IBU 6 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 50.00 % 4 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 33.33 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal...

I dry hopped an IIPA in the keg over a month ago. I planned on force carbing and left it at 30 psi for 3 days. It seemed way overcarbed, so I took it off the gas and let it sit a week. No big deal, as I wanted it to soak up some of that Citra yumminess. Anyway, after sitting for a week I...

I use a spare boil pot to sanitize most of my equipment. Just now I threw a smack pack of yeast into it to sanitize the packaging before I opened it. What I didn't remember is that the water in the pot was about 110 F. The pouch swelled up to about twice what it was in the 5-10 minutes I left...

to "smack" my smack pack of yeast until I had the wort chiller going. Is it going to be ok to get the wort down to about 90 F or so, then let it sit with the lid on for a few hours while the yeast get's going?

My girlfriend has been growing chocolate mint in the backyard and I'm thinking of throwing some into my stout recipe. Anyone have some idea of how much I should use? Btw, here's the recipe I threw together. I'd take some comments on it as well. Amount Item Type 16.00 oz Carafa II...

Is there a point where you can use to many varieties of hops in a beer? I have five different ones sitting in the freezer right now and I'm thinking of just throwing together a recipe before they go bad. I have 4 oz Willamette 2 oz Amarillo 2 oz Chinook 1 0z Saaz 2 oz Simcoe...

I've been scouring the board for a while to find the info I'm looking for, and I'm sure it's here, but I cannot find it. I've got an orange hef fermenting for 9 days now and I went from an OG of 1.0345 to a day nine gravity of 1.0107. From what I understand, I need to get down to about 35% of...

A few months ago I tried making a raspberrry porter. When it was ready for carbonating and bottling I used 3/4 cup of suger and bottled it up. It's been bottled for almost two months now, and I've popped a few open and found that none of them have any carbonation. Being as this was only my...

Howdy..... I've been at this for about a month now. Went and got myself set up with the beginners equipment, and jumped in headfirst. My first batch was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone that has been sitting in the bottle for about a week now. My second effort was a raspberry porter...