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Hey guys, brewing my first sour (berliner weisse-ish brew) and have a question on the lacto. (Opted for short boil and hop, then lacto afterwards because I didn't want to chance contamination with unboiled wort.) On Monday, I went through my mash and did a 20 minute boil, adding my 5 IBU of...

So my idea was to brew these beers for my old man (who's a hophead in the worst way) and give them to him as a gift. I've brewed the daydream IPA before and I love it, so I wanted to make a black imperial version of it for contrast. So I took this recipe: Recipe: Daydream IPA Brewer...

Looking for some feedback on this IPA recipe. I based it on a variety of 60 minute IPA, with some tweaks to add some body and a little more depth to the recipe. Looking for just a hint of roast and backbone with a good dose of aromatic hop. I was thinking of upping the amarillo/simcoe...

So today I brewed a pretty simple Wit, using 10.5 pounds of grain in my recipe. I have a 10 gallon MLT with a bazooka screen (which I think may be the problem) and I'm fly sparging (albeit with a crappy home made sparge arm.) My recipe calls for a 6.5 gallon preboil volume. I reached the...

It's entwined around my deck, and I'm curious if the hops are going to be something I'll be able to use.

I've got a 5 gallon batch of belgian pale ale that I brewed about 3 weeks ago. OG was 1.046, now sitting at 1.010. It's sitting on oak chips right now, and I was considering bottling half the batch and dumping the dregs from a couple of Petrus bottles that I've cultured. The starter from the...

So question on cold crashing my lastest batch. I don't have a fridge that I can put the entire 6gal bucket into, I was curious if there's a way to cold crash it by filling my brew kettle with ice water and just letting the bucket sit in it for a while, topping up the ice as necessary? Would...

Looking to do a nice, drinkable beer for summer, and thinking about the following recipe: OG: 1.053 IBU: 25.1 SRM: 9.5 ABV: 5.5% Mash in 3 gal at 150 for 90 min: 8.5lb UK pale 2 row 12oz rye malt 12oz crystal 60L 6oz flaked wheat Sparge with 4.25 gal @ 168 90 minute boil 1 oz...

Anyone have any leads on valve hardware for a 2 gallon cooler? I'm having a tough time finding something that will fit the bung in the cooler as it seems to be smaller than the fitting in my 5 gal.

Hey everyone, looking to try my hand at brewing a belgian blackberry brew, preferably with a bit of sour/acid in it as well. I was thinking of a petrus oak aged pale type beer with some blackberry flavor added at bottling, but I'm wondering if I'll need to get into lacto and other bugs or if...