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I live in San Diego and I am planning on brewing a Dry Irish Stout this weekend (in time for St. Patrick's day), and I have been messing around with the various water chemistry sheets and I believe I have a decent recipe. First off here are the SD and Dublin Profiles: (ppm) San Diego (Otay)...

Hey everyone - So my employer is in all likelyhood relocating to a horrible state which I have no desire to move to. I will not mention where because I wouldn't want those of you living there to be offended. That being said I knew I didn't want to do accounting the rest of my life and...

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out this thread. I picked up a Bourbon Barrel Porter Kit from Northern Brewer which includes some oak cubes which will be soaked in bourbon and then added to the secondary. I am thinking of charring the oak cubes prior to the soaking (think Jack Daniel's...

I have an Double IPA kit that has been sitting in my closet since probably April or May... How long are these good for? It's the syrup type with some specialty grains as well... Thanks,

Hey everyone - So I'm anticipating a jump to All-Grain Brewing in the next few months and I decided to start doing research on water chemistry in light of the recent water discussion on extract brewing. For the record I use bottled water, partial boil, and bottled water (unboiled) to top...

Anyone ever tried using one of these while brewing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_watcher

The other day I was on HBT and found a link to a website where you could put a recipe together and it would calculate everything... ABV... IBU... etc. It even had a little carboy on the side that would slide up and down a malty-bitterness scale and change colors depending on the ingredients...

I'm going to be out in Springs for a few days... Any beer-related establishments that I should hit up while I'm in town?

Saturday I brewed Northern Brewer's Petite Saison d'ETE. The ingredients and brief recipe is as follows: .5lb Belgian Caravienne (Steep in bag to 170 degrees) 3.15lb Pilsen Malt Syrup 1lb Pilsen Dry Malt Extract 1lb Wheat Dry Malt Extract 1oz Kent Goldings (60min) .25oz Styrian...

Haven't brewed in a few weeks, and my latest is in secondary...

I'll be bottling a batch of NB's Black IPA :rolleyes: soon. I was just reviewing the recipe and noticed that it said to add the hops 5 days prior to bottling during the 2-4 week secondary. I put them in at the same time I trasferred to the secondary (about 12 days ago), am I going to lose...

Last night I needed to take a gravity reading and had to sanitize my beer theif (read: auto siphon outer tube). I'm currently using BTF Idophor which I mix at 1/2 tsp per 3/4 Gal. I really didn't need 3/4 of a gallon of sanitizer, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to measure...

So I'm a new brewer (batch 4 will be brewed in the near future) and I'm looking to invest into some new equipment... The two areas I'm looking at are either a chest freezer and temp controller to better control fermentation temps or equip to start brewing all grain. My current fermentation...

I picked up Northern Brewer's Black IPA kit and decided I would buy the yeast locally here instead of getting it from them. The recipe calls for Wyeast 1272 (American Ale II), but the local shop only had Wyeast 1056 (American Ale). I'm not necessarily concerned with flavor differences, but...

Hey everyone - So I browsed through the stickies and looked for a previous answer, but as they say there is more than one way to skin a cat... Well there is more than one way to screw up a homebrew... I bought a starter kit from a local brewmart and it came with an extract kit...