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When is the "best" time to dry hop? I generally do it about 7-10 days before I bottle or keg. Most of the time I cool the carboy to get my yeast to drop out as much as possible. Take it out - let it warm up to 65 or so again and then insert hops. (i prefer to do everything in one carboy...

I have an 8 gallon pot. At this point I'm just doing full boils and doing a single carboy. If I wanted to boil 7 gallons or so and split into two carboys (adding water), should I just double up the recipe? I do both extract and partial at this point, but for the first try would prefer to...

Recipe My Rye IPA (light) 7.00# LME 1.00# Crystal 40 0.50# Caramunich I 1.00# Crystal Rye 0.25 Flaked Rye 1tsp Gypsum Pre LME Boil Schedule Boil 5.5 Gallons 1 oz Chinook @60 min .5 Chinook @40 .5 Willamette @40 .5 Chinook @20 .5 Willamette @20 1.0 Centennial @5 Whirlfloc @ 15 Yeast...

Just to check my sanity. I have a 5 gallon Pale in my primary right now. I plan on dry hopping. Can I split that into two 2.5 gallon batches (in 3 gallon carboys) to experiment with two different types of hops? -- also -- I do a full boil when I brew. Can I split the...

I want to give up the glass carboys and move use my corny kegs to be my "secondary" vessels. I primary for a month or more generally. my secondary process is generally for clearing the beer and aging. plan: cold crash the primary. Transfer the beer. Once I transfer the beer from my...

I just kegged my first batch last night. I cooled the secondary and the keg itself to 40 before I transfered. Set my PSI to 30 and put it all in the fridge. Was planning on doing this for 48 hours. I want the beer to be around 2.5 (Kolsch). So I know my pressure should be 12 PSI or...

I generally go from primary (14 days or so) to a secondary (14 days or so) to bottle (3 weeks or so) and notice that when I open it - it seems to get better about 2 weeks after opening the first bottle. If I were to start kegging (with a force carb) - should I just keep it in the secondary...

Im looking for a nice light color with a hoppy hit. Worried it might end up too bitter... Steeping grains (155 degrees - 1 gallon) Pale Malt (Crisp) 1 lb. 12oz caramel 10L 8oz Cara 20L (Castle) add to --- Briess Pilsen Unhopped Liquid Malt Extract 6 lb. Munton & Fison (UK) Light...

standard recipes etc call for a 2 gallon boil for a 5 gallon batch. I have head that boiling more is better if you can do it. Is that true? If so why? I know - a dumb question, but I have room in my kettle and it would seem a shame to waste it. My kettle can easily handle 3.5 to 4...

Put a trappist in primary yesterday with wlp-500 yeast. Started getting airlock activity after 30 hours. Question Im in no rush. How long to primary a trappist? should I even bother with a secondary? and bottle condition etc - no idea how long to keep something like this on the shelf...

I was wondering if it would be a bad idea to brew an american pale ale with a wpl500 or wpl530 or even a dry packet of safbrew t-58 I was planning to use mt hood hops (60min, 15 min, and 3 min) 1lb munich 1/2 lb crystal 20l light liquid malt (7 lbs) at 10 minutes to go add 1/4 lb of...

Is it a bad idea to "convert" a bottling bucket into a primary? Seems like a nice easy way to grab samples. I figure as long as the bucket is sanitized its really the same thing, no? If I racked to a secondary or at bottling I'd still use the siphon and not the spigot.

I just finished my first 5 gallons. I did a reading last night and i am at 1.07 and am ready to bottle. The top of the beer still has some of the Krausen. Not a lot mind you, but enough that it does not seem to be interested in falling to the bottom. Fermentation is pretty much done...