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It seems nothing can go right with this brew. http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/HopeandKing_Pro_TH.pdf I was supposed to have an OG of 1.060, but I only hot 1.050. I'm not totally sure what the problem was, but I suspect either my thermometer was giving me an off...

Hey gang, I recently purchased Northern Brewer's American Wheat AG kit: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-AmericanWheat.pdf I was thinking about racking off two gallons to add fruit to in secondary, but I was worried the higher hop character of an American Wheat...

Hey all. I'm planning to brew Northern Brewers Hope and King Scotch Ale tomorrow: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-HopeandKing_Pro_TH.pdf Coincidentally, my girlfriend bought a case of her favorite beer, which is Innis and Gunn Rum cask aged scotch ale. We were...

I haven't brewed anything since this past fall. I just ordered some ingredients, and it seemed more expensive than I remember. Have prices been going up on grains and/or hops, or am I imagining things (which highly possible)?

I'm looking for some help tweaking this English Barleywine recipe: 15 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 73.2 % 3 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 2 14.6 % 2 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 3 9.8 % 8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 4 2.4 % 2.00 oz Northdown...

Hey all, I have a buy one get one subscription card for BYO magazine that I'm looking to split with someone. $16.50 to paypal will get you a year's subscription. Post here to claim it, and if you're the first one to post, then you can PM me to request my paypal address for payment. Also...

Hey all, I'm looking for a bit of info. I did my first yeast starter today. Pitched it around 70 degrees, put it on my stir plate and left it alone. A few hours later I took a look and there were a whole lot of nice little bubbles rising up, and I was pretty happy to see it was all...

Hey all, So I didn't think my beer was fermenting, and I bought a new smack pack, smacked it, and went to use it, but of course (after nearly 72 hours) the beer is fermenting. :drunk: Now I have this smacked, swelled wyeast pack. What should I do with it to store? Can I just put it as is in...

I've read a few posts about this, but wanted to ask a specific question. First, the details: It's a Wyeast 3068 pack. It was a new package, only a few weeks old. I had it in the fridge the whole time. I smacked it the night before I was going to brew. The next morning it hadn't swelled...

I have 2 cases of 24 vintage Yuengling bottles (16 oz, pop top) that I found at a yardsale. I bought these basically to delabel and use for my homebrew, but when I told the guy I bought them from, he seemed upset and told me they're collectable. (He claimed to only be selling because his...

This recipe is the all grain version of last year's Partial Mash Moon Hill Pumpkin Ale: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/moon-hill-pumpkin-ale-260064/ Great thanks to NordeastBrewer77 for helping with tasting notes and tweaking the recipe. We stayed true to last years PM recipe, while...

As you might have noticed from my other thread, I'm contemplating my first decoction mash. In preparation, I'm wondering when I should add rice hulls... Should they be in the mash from the very beginning (and therefore are being boiled with the grist), or stir them in after decoction...or at...

SO I've done a bit of reading about Dunkelweizens and I'm wondering whether or not to do a decoction mash. The main reason I'm hesitant to do it is because this is only my second all grain batch. The main reason I'm thinking I should is because from what I've read, that's the correct way and...

I've been meaning to post some pictures of my hop garden, so I finally just made a video of it for my youtube channel. I have a first year hop garden. I got 3 cascade rhizomes from Hilifax Hops, and they're doing awesome! Take a look. The question posed in the video: I have a lot of...

I've been doing a lot of reading recently about the different types of yeast and bacteria in the SCOBY coupled with the reformulation of the SCOBY in recent years. I got to thinking about how I used to "catch" wild yeast to make sourdough bread. From what I've read, it'd be nearly impossible...

Over the course of this spring and summer I've found plenty of things eating my hops leaves. Slugs, fuzzy white bugs (aphids?), etc. Today I found what looks like little baby fireflies/lightning bugs on the undersides of my hop leaves. There was only one per leaf, but they were on like...

I just finished brewing my first all grain, and of course, some questions have come up. Everything went really well, but I want to try and tweak my process. First off, my kettle has nearly 1 gallon of dead space at the bottom. I don't have a dip tube, so I tried to calculate for that loss...

Silly question time. I've only tasted one bottle of Kombucha from the store before I started to brew it, and that bottle was the gingerade flavor. When I was tasting my "starter liquid" bottle (basically the kombucha that was left over after growing my first SCOBY), it tasted pretty good...

I'm having a bit of trouble setting up the mash in Brew Target. I think I'm doing everything correctly, but it keeps giving me a strike water temp of 177 degrees, which seems way off to me. I tried following the "how to" manual, but I still get that 177 strike temp for mash. I click on the...

The lack of definitive bottling information worries me. With beer, I never worry about bottle bombs because everything is calculated out, I know how much sugar is in the beer, etc. With Kombucha, it seems all of the bottling info says something like, "Bottle it, leave it out for a couple...