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BJCP Scoresheet Question Im looking to start to study for the BJCP and one way I want to do this, other than the study material, is to sample plenty of commercial beers and fill out the BJCP Scoresheet. Does anyone know where I could find an archive of commercial examples to see if I am picking...

My buddy is having a bachelor party in the next few weeks and he asked me to bring a keg of home-brew for him. So a few weeks ago I brewed up a fat tire clone, his favorite beer, and now it is time to keg it. I plan to bring a jockey box to the bachelor party to leave set up in the house that we...

This will be my first time trying a parti-gyle style brew. I plan to make a Barley Wine with the first runnings then I am note sure what to make with the rest. Below is my Barley Wine recipe that I came up with. My plan is to mash in and let it sit for an hour, then fly sparge with a few...

Here is my first shot at making up my own recipe. Any feedback would be great. I am going to try to brew this next weekend. BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: House IPA Brewer: GREG Asst Brewer: Style: American IPA TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0) Recipe...

I currently keg all my beer and I recently got a counter pressure bottle filler for when I want to fill up a few bottle or growlers to take over to some friends. Does anyone see any problems with filling bottles up, out of my kegs at 42F, and then storing/aging going them for an extended period...

I got a Captain Crush a few weeks ago and I am now just trying it out. I have the gap set to the recommended settings, but I am wondering if my crush looks good or do I need to adjust my gap width. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I brewed up a Vienna Lager on Sunday using Wyeast Munich Lager yeast. I made up a 2L starter on Friday morning cold crashed it Saturday night and took it out of the fridge after my mash was complete and decanted. It was a 90 minute boil and it took me about 15 minutes to get it down to 70F I...

I'm brewing up a Vienna Lager on Sunday and just starting my 2L yeast starter. I'll be using Wyeast 2308 Munich Lager yeast. For this yeast starter, should I do it at 52F, which i will primary at, or can I just leave it at room temperature? This will be for a 5 gallon batch. Any help would be...

I brewed a Bavarian Dunkel today and put it in my keezer to ferment, it's my first lager. The only problem is that I already have 2 kegs in my keezer and my stout is due to go into a keg today. Am I going to run into any problems of I keg the stout and just let it sit out of the keezer? If I do...

I recently converted a GE 7.0cf chest freezer into a keezer with 3 taps. So far so good other than the fact that I don't have a drip tray mounted yet. I thought about tutting 2 small screws into the front of the freezer to hang my drip tray on but I'm afraid of hitting a coolant line. Does...

I recently kegged a NB Honey Ale, it's been in a keg for about a week and a half at around 10psi and 36F. I have not seen much carbonation. I've been pouring a half a glass every few days and it doesn't look much different from day to day. Here is what it looks like today? Do I have any reason...

So I build a keezer the other week and I went to make some adjustments to my beer lines last night and didn't notice that my temperature sensor fell out of my keezer, and it ran all day at freezer temps thus freezing the beer that I had in my kegs and lines. Am I going to be ok if if just let...

Hey everyone, I started brewing a little over a year ago and was a primarily an extract brewer and finally made the leap to AG. I've had few issues with my 1st 2 AG batches, but I love it so far. My question is that if I made a bigger yeast starter, decant after a day or 2 and build up 1, 2 or...

I recently made an electric heat stick following these instructions: http://lovebrewingcompany.com/brewing/diy/heatstick/ The only thing that I did differently is to use JB Weld Kwik because I has some lying around. I built it a few days ago and today I went to test it out to see how much...

I recently made an electric heat stick following these instructions: http://lovebrewingcompany.com/brewing/diy/heatstick/ The only thing that I did differently is to use JB Weld Kwik because I has some lying around. I built it a few days ago and today I went to test it out to see how much...

I have been brewing for a few months now and have a question about adding hops to my boils. Currently I am an extract brewer so I get my hops in pellet form. How do other people add their hops. By that I mean, I've added the pellets right to the wort and I've put them in a small mesh bag Is...

So I brewed a Northern Brewer Irish Red Ale a few weeks back and I just transferred to a keg last week Sunday. (it was my first time kegging.) I transferred right to the keg with no priming sugar and hooked my CO2 tank right up to it at 17psi. I then rolled the keg for a few minutes and have...

First off, I love this forum. I am on it daily and learning tons. I have 4 brews under my belt, 3 extract and 1 partial mash. I am planning in brewing up 2 more extracts this weekend, a red ale and a spiced winter ale. My question comes with the winter ale. I was thinking of adding some cinnamon...

I am fermenting a Maibock right now and the primary fermentation is almost done and I am going to transfer soon to my secondary fermentor. I was reading the instructions again and I noticed that to Lager, I have to allow my batch to ferment between 35 and 40 degrees. I really do not have a way...

I am going to bottle my first batch of beer tomorrow morning so I decided to get a head start on cleaning and sanitizing my bottles. I clean/de-labeled them in b-brite and I am running them in the dishwasher right now. I heard that if you are not going to use the bottle right away that you...