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Thanks for your responses. It's a good point. I have made about 50 batches of extract at this point and never not had airlock activity during fermentation. Yesterday, I removed the hop cones with a sanitized spoon and stirred the batch. OG was about 1.050 and it was already to 1.030. There...

Just got the first of 2 pounds of fresh hops from my LHBS and decided to take this pound of Simcoe and make a Steam Beer with whole hops for flavoring and Aroma. I did a full 5 gallon boil. Smack pack was purchased that day and blew up nicely. I may have pitched a little high due to...

I'm not sure if the recipe has changed from the last 2 years, but I have made this beer twice and been really happy both times. I don't think going to a full 5 gallon boil will make a difference. I will say that I have a few left from last year and they taste really great right now!

Thanks for the replies. This is a better bottle, so there are some logistic challenges to cleaning it out (as opposed to a bucket). The reason it spoiled was a good lesson learned for me. I made a harvest ale that I fermented in a glass carboy. Getting 5 gallons of wort in a glass carboy...

I have a better bottle that is about 3 years old and has been used 6 times or so. My last batch was a harvest ale that actually spoiled. Ammonia smell signs of bacterial growth. I cleaned it out and filled with Starsan overnight. I can't smell anything inside. My question is, should I...

I have 1 lb of fresh Chinook and I want to make a harvest ale recipe. I have 8 lbs of Alexanders and some specialty grains. 4 oz caramel malt 4 oz honey malt 8 oz special roast malt 8 oz Victory Malt 8 oz flaked wheat Any tips on a nice pale ale that shows off the hops. I might...

OK folks. Some great advice out there about kegging and traveling. Here is my situation/plan. I have a nice Dead Guy Clone dry hopping now and a Citra Summer Wheat ready in about 4 days. I want to keg one of them and take them for summer vacation. We are traveling about 7 hours, staying...

Thanks for the tips. I was thinking either Pale Ale or Steam. Last summer I made Charlie Papazian's Steam Beer recipe and it was a fave. I like the idea of working in the Chocolate Malts. I wish I was drinking one right now!

I have some ingredients at home leftover from previous batches that I would like to put to good use and use up as much as possible. I have: 2 cans of Alexander's Pale Malt. 1 lb of crushed crystal malt 1/2 lb of pils malt 15 oz chocolate malt 300 g of german malts (bought at a...