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Is there a simple way to correct hop additions if the pre boil wort is at a lower gravity than anticipated by the recipe? Ran a quick search couldnt find anything and am wondering for next time I come up way under :) Thanks

I have done about 10 AG batches now and my efficiencies are all over the place... sort of, all of my pales, IPA's and even hefs have been in the 75-78% range and all my stouts, browns and porters have been from 82-87% any ideas why these two groupings of numbers? Are stouts easier than pales to...

I have a pale ale I am working on, first time using dry yeast, I re hydrated it and pitched it into vigously aerated wort yesterday evening. It looked like it started to go a few hours later (just barley started to bubble) but I had to move it to another room overnight and in the morning its...

I cant believe I cant find anything on this in a search, but want to confirm I can use tums antacid's (crushed up) as a substitute for chalk/calcium carbonate, since that's what they are. OK to use? Thanks

Put this together after getting frustrated with slowly sparging using a pitcher of hot water and an upside down plate :) Worked great, have 3 bricks and a hotplate on top of the fridge and a sparge arm I got from Midwest Brew Supplies that worked great, put in an inline valve for adjustments :)

Have this in the fermenter as we speak, came up with it dinking around in beersmith and thinking about flavors I wanted. Was going for a spin off of a mix between Alaskan Oatmeal Stout and Pipeline Porter (flavor/mouthfeel wise). Will let you know how it turns out, right now just looking for...

I would like to know how long its ok to store bottled beer at room temp. We just bottled some Cream Stout about a month ago and for the first 2 or 3 weeks of it being ready it tasted great, now its lost most of its flavors, and tastes weird. The other (older) beers seem to be ok so far but...

Want to do one, anyone played with this / have a recipe?

SO we brewed this beer we call Magnum, done with 7.5 lbs of pale malt and nothing but Magnum hops (we really liked the way they smell when we used them for an Irish red) Anyways when we took it out of the fermenter for bottling, we tasted it and it was great, tasted wonderful warm and flat...

Just had to share a pic of the clearest beer we have ever made, we always save the first bottle from every batch, and this time we chose to put it in a clear bottle so we could see just how clear it was. I was pretty impressed, no additives (except a wirlfloc at brew time) and no filtering...

So we just brewed up a batch of Hefeweizen and IPA, the hef was a kit from austinhomebrew, the IPA was a homemade recipe... We accidentally swapped the yeasts on the things, yeah I know, we have been beating ourselves up for it all day, but what do you think they will come out like. The...

So I ran a quick search, but having the word bottles in the search kinda makes it hard to find what I was looking for lol. These Bud pop top aluminum 16 oz bottles, is there any reason why they couldn't be used? They seem pretty stout.

Man I just got my second case of this stuff, gotta find a clone recipe for it because it is amazing. Just thought I would share, see if anyone else loves it and if anyone has any idea on a recipe.

Yeah, i know its late, but I really like SA winter lager, so I wanted to make something like it since they dont sell it anymore... Just bottled it up today, I have posted the recipe before but let me know if you would like it, heres a color sample. Tastes wonderful already, full of lots of...

I was just reading through the winter warmers thread and one post i read inspired me... I read one that called for adding some lactose at bottling time, can someone explain what this would add to the beer taste and mouth feel wise? Here is the ingredients, would it work well with my...

Heres a pic of our second and third brews, an American pale ale and a Irish Red. This is after 3 weeks in the fermenter, and about 12 days in the bottle. They taste AWESOME! Let me know what you think

I just wanted to extend a thanks, to everyone that has offered advice to me thusfar, just tasted my 2nd and 3rd brews after a little over a week of conditioning, O MAN THEY ARE SOOOOOOOOO GOOD. They only seem to get better with each day. Its day 10 in the bottle and i just swapped them from a...

I am trying to think of a way to carbonate my lemonaid that wont involve letting it ferment all the way out, because if I do it will be VERY dry, I hear that usual FG's are in the 0.9xx-1.005 range... I want to bottle it at about 1.020 FG, which will leave the yeast with to much food to eat...

I just need this cleared up because I dont know for sure what I am supposed to be doing. Once you bottle, can someone give me a schedule for how long you are supposed to age ales and at what temps? I have sofar been puttin mine in a box and keeping them about 70-75 Can someone just lay...