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Hi, I am brewing more frequently in order to ramp up for some beer competitions this summer. I have 10 gallons of IPA in 2 fermenters that I'm going to keg / bottle (5 gals per) this weekend. I am also planning on brewing some Black Rye IPA this weekend. I am considering racking onto the...

So yesterday I made my first batch of home-made Root Beer, into which I pitched some US05 a couple of hours prior to bottling for carbonation. I read on a soda website (http://www.greydragon.org/library/brewing_root_beer.html) that: "Once the pressure in your bottles gets to a certain point...

Hi there, I was planning on making my "Vienna Steam Lager," which is a CA Common with the addition of a high percentage of Vienna malt (recipe below). My question is this - what would happen if I used Safale US-05 instead of WLP810 / Wyeast 2112? I visited 2 LHBS's in my area and didn't...

Hi there, I opened up a couple bottles of Dark Belgian Ale I brewed to get...gushers. The beer had probably been in the bottle about 3-4 weeks. My question is this - when I bottled, I got a fair amount of trub/sediment/etc in the bottom of the bottling bucket. I bottled as much as I...

I brewed a pumpkin ale loosely patterned after Southern Tier PumKING and plan to enter it into a local charity competition. The question I have is which BJCP category to enter it in? Must it be a 21A Herb/spice/vegetable beer, or could it be a 21B Christmas beer? The reason I ask is that I...

Hi there, I have a dozen or so batches of homebrew under my belt, and am about to try my 1st batch of cider and have a couple of questions for those more accomplished than me. I am considering adding 4 lbs of brown sugar to 5 gallons of cider, but wanted to ask, should I boil the brown sugar...

Hi, I've been brewing since about November, and have just started brewing all-grain. And I've got a problem I'm looking for some help in diagnosing. Recently, I brewed an AG IPA and I'm getting a lot of gushers out of this batch. Beers in this batch fall into 3 categories - 1) those that...

Specialty grain (all 175 deg for 60 min): -- 5 lbs Belgian Pils -- 1/2 lb Belgian Aromatic Malt: -- 4.5 lbs light dry extract (60 min) -- 2.5 lbs cane sugar (60 min) Hops: -- 1 oz Goldings (60 min) -- 1 oz Tettnanger (30 min) -- 1 oz Fuggles (25 min) -- 1 oz Saaz (5 min)...

My last Northern Brewer order included 2 liquid yeast packages - one vial of White Labs and one smack-pack of Wyeast. I had some trouble with both. I pitched the White Labs directly into the fermenter and itl never really got going. I ended up finding another vial at a LHBS and repitching...

Beer: Rye Pale Ale ABV%: 6.4% Specialty grain (all 175 deg for 60 min): - 2 lbs Briess Rye - 2 lbs Rahr 2-Row pale malt - 1 lb Carared Malt extract: - 1 lbs Amber dry extract (60 min) - 6 lbs Amber malt syrup late addition (15 min) Hops: - 2 oz Warrior (60 min) - 1.5 oz...

Hello all, I'm new to brewing (started in October). I've brewed about 8 batches so far and am loving it! I've received a lot of help from this site as I've bumbled my way through the mistakes new brewers make (thank you!), so I figured it is time I join! I'm currently extract brewing...