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I got it into my head somehow that my dunkel would be tastier if I fermented it at 72F. Then I went and read around, and most folks seem to agree that it should be in the low 60s. So, the swamp cooler fan's going, but I'm not sure there's much I can do--I pitched it this afternoon, so we're well...

Anyone else brewing today? I'm whipping up a hefeweizen for a spring cleaning party in a few weeks.

So I've been brewing for over a year now but I worry that I went and made a n00b mistake, so I'm posting it here. I brewed up an all-extract IPA, and because I racked it onto an already established yeast cake, it chugged like crazy, and the krausen was gone by day 2. I let it sit for another...

A guy came up to my apartment door today, and he had a clipboard in hand. He was asking about my cable bill--I sniffed out that he was from AT&T. But when he asked about DVR, I judo'd him into how I could build one myself, which led into how I brew beer. So we spent 5 minutes chatting about...

So GLBC is now distributing in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Thrill area. Are you all coming out to any of the tastings? I'll be at the Flying Saucer on Thursday! The locations throughout the next week are listed here: https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/raleigh-durham-chapelhill

OK, so I have been reading about pH, and I thought I had a handle on it. My understanding was that when you checked the pH of your mash, it should be near 5.2. I use colorpHast type strips, that go from 4.8 to 6.4 or so, and dunk 'em in the mash after mixing my brewing salts. Then I got wind...

I have a friend who has some alehoof growing in his yard, and I am curious about brewing up something with it. Probably an IPA, given that all the (few) descriptions I've read of its impact are as a bittering agent. Radical Brewing has but the briefest of notes on it. Anyone ever mess with this...

I helped a friend brew an Arrogant Bastard clone kit (Brewer's Best Imperial IPA) today. The instructions said it would be OG 1.081-86, but when I punched the ingredients into brewtarget, the calculated OG was more like 1.065. Also, the amount of hopping they recommended was insane, something...

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120125/NEWS01/301250072/Cheers-Sierra-Nevada-Brewing-is-welcomed-to-Henderson-County Time to pack up everything and apply for a job in Asheville!

It's back. I walked right past it in the Whole Foods, because it was placed by the deli counter... Picked up a 6-pack to enjoy over the next 12 months :D It's like drinking distilled chocolate.

I Just finished whirlpooling my first sorghum LME wort. Will be pitching yeast, but while I have some down time I'll throw up what I did here for y'all to look at. I used the Gluten Free McGee recipe as a base, but since I brew on my stove in a 3-gallon kettle, I had to tweak it some. Here's my...

What a blessing! ...or what a curse. ;-) It's a full half-barrel, and we are only equipped for 5-gallon batches right now. So, time to spend money on the free keg! We use a 7.5 gal kettle, a 5 gal mash tun, and a few 6-gallon Better Bottles. From what I can determine, we'll need a 12-15...

So I made a special bitter on my stovetop in June with Fuggles and Kent Goldings at 15 minutes, and when I redid the recipe, I changed it up and did the EKG at 20 and the Fuggles at 7. What a mistake! That delicious hop spiciness is gone, gone, gone. This is not to say that the EKG doesn't taste...

Greetings, The giant sack thread over in AG got me thinking. (Dangerous stuff, I know.) Is there much of a difference between these recipes? 8lbs 2row 1lb crystal 40 8.5lbs 2row 0.5lbs crystal 80 If so, seems like it would make $ sense to buy a 50lber of 40 or 60, and just...

I'm not one to diss New Belgium; they're pretty reliably yummy. But wow, Frambozen should never have made it out of the testing phase. It tastes like raspberry juice that several smokers have dropped their cigarette butts into. Do people enjoy this stuff? What beer better represents the style...

I don't know if I really have a point to this, but I'm scratching my head over water chemistry. I finally got the numbers from the public utilities people, so now I'm looking at all the chemistry info from HTB and it all just swims together. I'll get it one of these days. Maybe with some...

So I'm finally wending my way through the style guide, and I have a question for the tasters among you. I'm putting together an English IPA. The grain bill is pretty straightforward: 8lbs 2-row 1lb Biscuit 8oz Crystal 20L 1.25lbs DME at boil There's something like 3 or 4 oz of hops in...

Greetings, So my crew and I've been brewing all year, and we have never had a problem with bottle conditioning to date. We pitch priming sugar boiled in water into bottling bucket while racking. Viola! Carbonation after a week, and good conditioning thereafter. So naturally for a batch of...

Greetings, I've been using hbt since about January (me & my buds have been brewing since late October), but it's been relatively smooth sailing. And I still think it is, but I have encountered something in my saison that I have never seen before. I was wondering if any of you could ID what is...