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I tried making one of my favorite IPAs from Foothills Brewing in North Carolina. Hoppyum IPA I created this recipe first off by using the stats on the Foothills Brewing website and from talking with a brewer. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the actual hop schedule and grain ratios directly...

I brewed my first two beers today with my new Barley Crusher instead of the LHBS crush and saw a drop in efficiency. Everything else being equal I went from 74-75% efficiency with multiple LHBS batches to 70-71% on the default factory settings for Barley Crusher. The dial settings for my crusher...

I just took final gravity readings on two batches of beer made with my first attempts at liquid yeast. I have made dozens of brews before, all similar recipes, using dry yeast packets. For comparison, my S-05 Dry yeast packs resulted in final gravity readings of about 1.013, roughly 79-80%...

I tapped my first ever all-grain brew a couple of days ago and it is noticeably less-hoppy than the extract version of the same beer that I brewed several months ago. The extract was a full boil and my beer program (Beer Alchemy) showed equal IBU ABV etc. I only switched out enough DME for 2-row...

Batch spargers - do you get better efficiency if you stir during a 60 minute mash or if you just close the lid and let it sit for 60? I just tried stirring during a 90 minute mash, stirred twicemduring 90 minutes and I went from a 75% efficiency with no stirring on a 60 minute mash to 71%...

Has anyone seen any real advantage of using a stirplate for yeast starters vs intermittent shaking when it comes to < 1.070 5 gallon batches? I made my first liquid starter this week, and after being a little underwhelmed with the yeast in the flask, pitching into fermenter, and seeing...

I've done all of the reading that I can stand. I've seen too many YouTube videos to count. I'm going all grain this weekend, not once, but twice and my biggest fear isn't about my grain thickness. It isn't about my strike temp. It isn't about my Sparge. I don't know what to do with all of the...

I have been using Beer Advocate for about a year for extract brewing but just built a Mash Tun this weekend and plan to do some all-grain brewing over Thanksgiving. I plan on batch sparging I was really expecting Beer Alchemy to tell me the specific details of the Mash and Sparge in the...

Does anyone know if there is a setting in Beer Alchemy to adjust the potency of Extracts that you are using in recipes? Maybe a PPG setting? I can't find anything of the sort. My Original Gravity is always significantly lower than what the BA program calculates for Extract bewing. I spoke to...

I am using Beer Alchemy and I am currently an Extract brewer. Whenever I enter a recipe in Beer Alchemy I am never able to hit the projected gravity from the recipe. Not even close. My boil volumes are spot-on. What could be causing me to miss the gravity marks. I brewed this weekend and...

So when a recipe calls for a hop addition at flame-out, do you just drop it in and start your chill? Or do you stir it? Wait any amount of time? Seems like the hops just kind of float around if you aren't boiling or give it a stir.

When I bought my immersion copper wort chiller the coils were all compacted down so that the stack of copper coils were all touching each other. In this state, the chiller only covered about half of the wort in my 40 quart brew pot. Ever since the first time I used it, I have expanded, or...

Completed my first brew session today. Two brews. A Belgian Wit - Left and IPA - Right. This pic was taken a few hours ago. Now the krausen in the Wit has already started moving into the blow off tube at the time of this post. Oh the agony of waiting on the beer now, lol. Can't wait to get...

Really looking forward to my first brew! I plan to start tomorrow morning. I am doing a full boil extract into a 6 gallon glass primary. I have supplies to create a blow off for the primary but I hear a lot of conflicting advice. What is the general preference on this board? Blow off? or go...