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was thinking of dry hopping my IPA with 1 oz. of chinook and 1 oz. of cascade. thoughts or suggestions. thanks

so this past weekend I transferred my wheat beer to my secondary fermenting vessel. I added the raspberries to it, about 1 lb. (only a 3 gallon bucket) and set in my cooler. the odd thing is I got airlock activity about 5 minutes after transferring but not a dang thing since. This all took place...

So this coming Saturday will be 2 weeks since I brewed my American wheat brew. My plan is to check the gravity today, tomorrow and Friday to make sure fermentation has stopped. Lets assume for a second that I have a steady gravity reading for the next 3 days should I rack it to the secondary and...

to roll out with the celebration ale? man I've been missing it. anyone know? Thanks

Hey everyone. so I have done a few searches on the items in the topic but got no definite answers on a few of them. I understand that when adding frozen raspberries to the secondary for a rasp. wheat it's all about experimentation and individual taste so I can live with that, but I will ask...

so this past weekend I brewed a canned extract kits (muntons wheat beer). this by all accounts should be my last canned extract kit before I move to bigger and badder partial mash or all grain. Saturday I brewed as directed but instead of just adding the 2.2 lbs. of dextrose I also added a...

so if a recipe calls for 3 lbs. of DME can you use 2.2 lbs. of dextrose and 1 lb. of DME instead? reason being is i'm broke. yeah I know, wait till I gots more money...

so after 3 weeks of conditioning my 1st batch of brew I chilled a few last night and sampled them. I would say they were carbonated just right, not to much, not to little. They tasted very good, not great but hey I'm ok with that. However once I poured them in the glass there was very little if...

i've gots a batch of pale ale that has been in the fermenting bucket for a week now and even though I have not taken a hydrometer reading i'm fairly certain fermentation is not complete. That being said should I wait till fermenting has stopped before I dry hop or is it ok to go ahead and do it...

So what is more important (as I know they both are), the fermentation of the beer or the bottling conditioning? I ask because I want to make several batches before Christmas so I can give some to friends and family. I’m trying to work out a time line so nothing turns out not good. I guess what...

Is this possible? anyone ever do it, etc.? I ask because I have decided that instead of sanitizing 60+ bottles the day before or the day of that it would be easier to sanitize and store them as I finish them. I wash them out well with hot water then fill them with pre-mixed sanitizer, let it...

after reading a few discussions about fermenting temps. I decided to try one of those there swamp coolers. I was told that the correct temps to ferment a pale ale is 65-75. Saturday I brewed a batch of pale ale and it has been fermenting in my closet at a consistent 77 degrees. So last night I...

My wife has gone on a red stripe kick lately and seeing they are pop tops I figured what the hey, why not use them. I noticed they seem a bit small an after looking they are 11.5 oz...not that .5 oz. makes a difference I guess. I am curious to see how the 22 oz. bottles work out. anyone have any...

So i'm a confessed hop-head and I will be dry hopping my current fermenting brew in a few weeks. In a 6 gallon batch will 1oz. of cascade hop pellets be to much or not enough? sierra nevada, sweetwater 420 and the IPA are my current favorites. I would rather have to much (within reason) than not...

so I have been seeing some threads about 1 gallon batch sizes. I was thinking about doing a small batch for my wife and her friend (raspberry wheat) rather than do a 5-6 gallon batch. So far I have only done extract (no boil) kits till I get more comfortable. Since the Mr. Beer refills make...

Hey everyone. so I brewed my 1st batch of Pale ale this weekend. Everything turned out well so far. The air lock is bubbling like mad, etc. but I have one concern. My OG seemed a tad low. Recipe said should have been 1.040 and mine was 1.034. Should I be worried? Not sure what the temp was when...

Hi everyone. So i am about to brew my 2nd batch of beer this weekend. This time I am doing a coopers pale ale (my first was the coopers IPA). On my first batch I used 2.2 lbs. of corn sugar in my wort as it called for in the directions. on all accounts everything has gone extremely smooth but on...

Hello everyone. I just bottled my 1st batch of brew on Saturday and i'm ready to start another batch this weekend. I used the Coopers no boil IPA and so far everything seems to be working out great. So now I think I want to try a partial mash brew. I will probably try a pale ale (not sure which...