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Tonight I'm fermenting my first batch of cider. Doing a 1-gallon batch using juice I bought from the Hudson Valley. I'm going to ferment using Nottingham dry yeast and split between 2 growlers. I took a gravity reading, and it's only 1042, which seems to be pretty low based on what I've read. Is...

So I've perused the boards, and googled the subject but I'm left with more questions than answers. I'm carbonating a pale ale in a corny keg right now. This is the set-up. 5-gallon Cornelius keg 4' of 3/16" beverage tube connected to plastic picnic tap 2.5 lb CO2 cannister My fridge is...

Brewed 5.25 gallons of a pale ale on 12/15 that looked like this: 8.5# 2-row 0.5# Caramel 60 All galaxy hops, 1.5 ounces in total. BIAB, Aimed for a mash temp of 149/150. Temperature did seem to drop more than usual over the hour. Usually I don't lose more than a degree or 2, but with...

I want to dry hop a keg with a pale ale I recently brewed. The beer was brewed on 12/15, is currently in my primary, and is done fermenting. It will be served starting Thursday 1/22, and I absolutely expect it to be gone before the weekend is out. I have 2.5 ounces of Galaxy hops for the job...

I just kegged my first batch today, and I'm having a bit of trouble. After filling the keg, turning the gas on to 30 PSI, purging the headspace, and shaking it for a few minutes, I left it in my chest freezer set to 38 degrees. I checked on it a few hours later and heard a faint hissing, and...

A little over a week ago I brewed a low gravity, all-grain saison. It was my first all-grain batch, and I specifically chose it since I was getting ambient temps in my apartment in the 80s, which I thought would be great saison "weather." Over the last few days airlock activity slowed down...

I only have room for one carboy in my converted chest freezer, and ambient temps in my apartment are generally in the mid-high 80s at this time of year. I'd love to take advantage of that, and brew something funky and estery by just leaving it in my kitchen. Would Wyeast 3724 (Belgian Saison) be...

Anyone brewing in the BK? After 4 years of brewing on my own, I have still never brewed with another person. I was supposed to be brewing tomorrow with a MUCH more experienced brewer on a bigger, better setup than I have at home, but he was actually just hired by Kelso Brewery, and has his first...

Brewed this today, and even right after transferring to carboy and shaking the heck out of it, it looks like this. I'm not really that worried, because I've had wort look like this before, and the beer turned out fine, but I'm worried this messes with me hydrometer readings. Doing BIAB, I...

I'm brewing an IPA for a wedding, and I thought it might be an interesting idea to do a cross between an American an English IPA. I'm thinking of doing a grain bill of maybe half 2-row and half Maris Otter with some Crystal malts, using EKG for bittering, adding some brewing salts to get a...

I live in the New York City area (Brooklyn specifically) and I'm looking to keg my first beer next month. Morebeer.com sells everything you need for $229, but I'm looking to see if I could get it a little cheaper if I went pre-owned. I checked classifieds, but there doesn't seem to be much...

For those of you doing BIAB consistently, what kind of efficiency are you getting? I've been doing mostly BIAB PM brews (with a sparge) for almost 3 years now, and I seem to get crazy high efficiency. The default setting on my software is 75%, and I generally surpass the OG by quite a bit. For...

I'm a partial mash brewer, so I've come to accept that getting accurate OG readings with a hydrometer is a crap shoot. It seems regardless of what the estimated gravity will be, I'm always much higher. I doubt it's because I'm somehow insanely efficient, seeing as the default efficiency for...

So I guess you can't really call this a "problem" per se, but I brewed a winter warmer style beer today that should have come in around 1060 (according to Brewtoad,) but actually measured at about 1071. The 1060 reading was assuming an efficiency of 75%, and even if I bump the software to 100%...

For my dad this Christmas, I'm brewing a winter warmer that's highly spiced (a la Harpoon's Winter Warmer.) I've researched some recipes here as well as on BrewToad, and this is what I came up with: Uncle Al's Fireside Warmer (partial mash) OG: 1062 FG: 1019 ABV: 5.6 IBU: 28 6 lbs. Amber malt...

I've been brewing for about 3 years now, mostly extract and partial mashes, and I have never messed with water chemistry. I was thinking for my most recent brew to perhaps delve SLIGHTLY into new territory. I've read the primer sticky, I've checked out the Bru'n Water chart, I've read my local...

Here's my dilemma. I live in a hot, third floor New York City apartment. I own a 5 cf chest freezer that I use for fermenting/aging. It doesn't hold an awful lot. Right now, I have 40 12-oz bottles that are carbing (about 1.5 weeks in, another 1.5 to go.) I would like to brew tomorrow, but...

My girlfriend and I are taking an impromptu trip to Atlantic City tomorrow, and since we're renting a car it would be a nice opportunity to get some beers we can't find in New York State and bring them home. Does anyone know of a good beer store to hit up in the AC area, or anywhere on the...

Recently I was lucky enough to inherit some brand new homebrew equipment from a friend. It was a starter kit from Midwest brewing, and as I've been brewing for over 2 years now, most of it is stuff I don't need. Rather than try to sell it, which would be tricky and probably not yield much...

I've been tapped by a friend to create a raspberry wheat to be served at his wedding reception this summer, and I've been researching for a while. The recipe for the beer isn't the hard part, it's the adding the fruit part. Several avid brewers I have spoken to both recommended using frozen...