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This might turn into a rant so I apologize in advance. I'm an extract brewer doing partial boils. I've been using the markings on my plastic bucket to add water to reach 5 gallons. However I've always come a little under what I expected for gravity. I've only done 3 brews so far so I just...

Does anyone have any experience using this malt? I've found so much conflicting info on it. Can I steep it (i.e. is it a "Crystal/Carmamel" malt) or does it need a mash? For now I'm stuck doing extract brewing. I wanted to try something new for a Pale Ale / Amber recipe. Any comments on...

I've made my first 2 batches using US-05 (both pale ales). I've been enjoying the first for the past week or so and I'm about to bottle my second. I have a couple of observations and I'd like to hear some your thoughts. Flocculation. When I leave some bottles in the fridge for about a...

I did some searching but I couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for. My first real batch (where I did a boil) came out with a very strong grassy taste. I think it's because I got A LOT of hop material in the fermentor from my kettle. I did do a bit of dryhopping, and from what I've read...

Has anyone tried using flavour and aroma hops additions ONLY? I'd like to get a lot of hop flavour in a pale ale and not an overpowering bitterness. The IBU will still work out to what I want for the style though. So something like: .5 oz @ 40 min 1 oz @ 20 min 1.5 oz @ 10 min 2 oz dry...

I just finished a pre-boiled pre-made kit (Festa Brew Pale Ale) that's currently conditioning in bottles. For my next batch I wanted to do a real boil with an extract recipe. Something similar to Palmer's Cincinnati Pale Ale. Palmer's recipe calls for: 3-4 lbs of Pale LME 3 lbs of Amber...

I bottled my first batch just over a week ago (I did a simple Fest Brew to get used to the process, etc). Long story short: I think my auto-siphon was faulty and had a leak in the gasket (between the inner and outer tubes). I had lots of bubbles in the line while I was racking to my priming...