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6 Gallons 8.25lbs English Pale Malt (3.5L) 8.25lbs 2-row 1lb Dextrose Mash at 147* for 75min Stone gives the exact hops they use. I substituted a few based on what I have, what I want to use up, and what I feel won't make a difference. You'll see the hop Stone uses in parenthesis. 2oz Belma...

This question may sound silly, but humor me. I've been using growlers to make starters since, well, forever. I boil in a pot, chill said pot, then pour and pitch my yeast. I recently bought a 5L borosillicate flask needing more headroom for bigger starters. I know many folks boil directly in...

Background: I moved, previous house had a 4wire dryer outlet, new house has 3 wire. I have 240v system, I don't have anything inside the control box powered via 120v. I'm using a 10/4 30a power cable with an inline GFCI (same one Kal has on the electric brewery). Please tell me if my...

Ok, after a number of batches on my 8gal 5500w kettle, I'm switching back to propane. My high gravity beers have slightly more kettle caramelization flavor than they should. -Under 1.060, and it's unnoticeable. -From 1.060 to 1.070, it's barely there, and I genuinely mean barely. -1.070...

When your power goes out during the middle of the brew day, you're completely at the mercy of your power company. 45 minutes into the mash, whooooom. Power goes out. Thankfully my sparge water was already hot, so I fly sparged with gravity, collected all the wort in the kettle and waited. Took...

I pulled the trigger on a new 15 gallon stainless Spike Kettle last week, and it arrived today. I have to admit, it's much nicer than I thought $135 shipped would buy. The walls are plenty thick, the handles are study, and the lid seems nice. This one is going to be my new mash tun, but i'll...

http://www.hopsteiner.com/html/marketletter.php Interesting data. This is the 2012 USDA report that shows how many acres of each hop were planted compared to last year. Now remember, these are potential yields, and they don't account for what the growing conditions will be like this summer...

**See Post 42 for the results** After lots of research, listening to interviews, and emailing the man himself, I'm brewing a PTY clone this weekend. I'm pretty confident my recipe is close. High level overview is: First I took the PTE recipe, and multiplied each hop addtion (90, 45, 30, 0) by...

I couldn't find the answer to this anywhere, and I wanted to double check. I'm planning an electric system right now. I'm going to be running off of a 50a Range circuit. I have a 4500w 240v element, which I know will draw a max of 18.75a. I also have a 1500w 120v element I use in my HERMS HEX...

Dogfish posted this today. They made a mini Randall; pretty cool looking. I looked at it, thought for a moment, and realized it's basically a self-contained french press. Then I realized, they have a 'prototype' in the video, and that 'prototype' was probably just something they bought. And...

I posted this on my blog, but I felt it was definitely worth re-posting here as well: http://bertusbrewery.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-take-better-photos-of-your-beer.html These are some good tips to help people take better photos of their beer. If anyone else has any tips they'd like to add to...

So today I was listening to the Matt Brylindson interview on Can You Brew It, and jotted down the numbers they use for hopping on Union Jack. They have a 50BBL brew house, and use: 14.5lbs Warrior @ 90min 20lbs 50/50 blend Cascade/Centennial @ 30 60lbs 50/50 blend Cascade/Centennial @ Flameout...

Last week I saw that Farmhouse Brewing supply had some experimental hops for sale -- HBC 342. The wheels in my head started churning, so I bought 12oz. They arrived yesterday, so I drew up a quick pale ale recipe that I'll be brewing here soon: 9lbs 2-row 1lb Munich 12oz C40 .6oz HBC 342 @ 60...

Just a drunk rambling -- I love Torpedo. Especially when it's fresh. Like this pint I'm drinking that was bottled 11-29. Who would have thought, dry hopping with Magnum, Crystal, and Citra?

I just had a beer score a 43 in one competition and a 18 in another. Obviously something is wrong (the beer tastes fantastic, so there's no way it warrants an 18). I might have been careless when bottling off the keg or possibly they switched my beer with someone else's. That's all, I'm...

Bagged up my bulk hops into 4oz bags. I couldn't resist posting this

Has anyone been down this road before? I brewed a Dogfish 120min clone a few months ago. Tonight I was struggling to get through 12oz of it, so I blended it 50/50 with a super hoppy, super dry DIPA (think: pliny) that I have on tap right now :o. Wow. You get the heavy malt and candied...

ABV: 8.0% Recipe is calculated for 6 gallons due to wort loss from the hops (72% eff) 13.5lbs 2-row 8oz Victory 8oz Crystal 40L 1lb Dextrose Mash @ 148-149* F 3.25oz Warrior(17.1%) @ 90 1oz Citra @ 30 2oz Simcoe/Centennial @ 15 (1oz each) 4oz Simcoe/Citra/Amarillo @ 0 (2oz Simcoe, 1oz ea...

My last few fermentations with US05 have been off. They've had long lag times, and slow ferments. I know this yeast very well, and I've probably fermented 20+ batches with it, so I know this isn't quite normal. My brew process hasn't changed, and I've had typical quick ferments with WLP007 in a...

It's experiment time. Common convention is that the alcohol in beer acts as a solvent and helps dissolve the hop oils and resins into the beer giving more hop aroma. I've found the opposite. My pale ales take on these wonderfully strong, perfume-like aromas from dry hops (5.0% ABV beers). I...