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Whats up guys, I plan on doing a first running's Double mash Imperial stout in the next few weeks and was wondering if a few on here have done this before and could help with some advice. My plan is to dough in on around 25lbs of grain at 1.5 qts per lb mash for 60 min then run all that wort...

So I've been having a issue brewing beers with a light SRM. So the last beer I brewed was a Whie IPA. All through fermentation it had a nice bright straw yellow color to it. It was a little cloudy but that's to be expected usin Wheat malt and a Belgian yeats that doesn't floc well. After I...

Have a brand new plate chiller that's never been used. It's from Duda Diesel I'm pretty sure it's 1/2 inch mpt but I'd have to check. 80$ plus shipping.

Help!!! my 5 gal keg of beer from my local brewery leaked out of my kegerator and it's all over the floor! what could have caused this? and does anyone have a solution to keep this from happening again. my kegerator I built myself out of a chest freezer with a wooden collar and ss shanks...

I have a Johnson analog controller that I have been using for a couple months and when I open the freezer this morning I found the probe and wire were rusted. I have this same type of controller set up on another freezer and have never had a problem with this before. Has anyone else ever had...

I'm going to do my first mead tomottor it going to be a sweet mead . I'm going to use 12 lbs honey for 5 gallons and a sweet mead yeast. I brew beer all the time but have never tried a mead. Any input or tips I should know about?

Does anybody in here have pro experince on carbonating bright tanks with carb stone

Hey guys quick question. I kegged my first beer yesterday . The style called for carbonating with 20lns of pressure so that's what I set it to. When I git the tank it read 1000lb in the tank but this morning it reads 600 and is in the buy gas zone almost . This seems like a lot if co2 to lose...

I have a Belgian that was in primary for two weeks then racked to secondary for another two. I need to free up my carboy but I want to age the Belgian for a little while longer . So my question when you condition in a keg do you rack it and just let it sit till your ready and then prime or do...

Looking at making a diffrent type of red. Want a sweet malty red about 6.5% with a slightly dry finish . It's going to be a Hoppy beer as well. Here's what I got so far. 5 gallons spring water 5lb dme 3.3lb munich malt 1.50lb crystal 60 8oz victory malt toasted at 350 for 10 min 5 oz roasted...

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I have seen that some people are adding some sugar to the boil to give their ipa that nice dry finish thst you find in ipa's so I was wondering what type of sugar and when to add . I have seen their adding about 5- 10% of the grain bill and was wondering if that seems about right. Have a good...

Have a quick question. On beer smith 2 when I plug in my recipe using the white labs London ale yeast wich shows it has 100 billion cells when I go to the yeast starter section it shows yeast cells needed 221.2 billion and then shows yeast cells without starter 11.8 billion viable cells with...

Brewing a Irish red soon will be my third one wanted to do something a little diffrent this time so here's the list tell me what you think (going for a malty Hoppy red) 6lb Munich malt syrup (my first time using it ,heard it provides a chewy malty flavor) 1lb amber DME .25 aromatic malt .50lb...

Thinking of doing a sirachi ipa and was going to add the a little bit of the sauce to secondary ferm. Had a jalapeno ipa not to long ago that was great, not overbearing and didn't blow out your pallet. What I was wondering is if some of the ingredients in sirachi would mess the fermentation...

I see a lot of people using coolers for mlt/hlt and was thinking of making one myself but I was wondering is it safe (to drink) putting 170 degree water into a plastic vessel or will that heat extract some of the chemicals out of the plastic ?

Anybody know a good gravity calculator?

On brew smith checking out my recipe and noticed something I was wondering if anyone could help me with. My batch size is 5 gallon and I do a 2 gallon BIAB (steeping grains) then when done steeping I bring those 2 gallons to a boil and that 2 gallons is my boil volume . Whats weird is that on...

Does anybody know a site or app that will help you determine how much priming sugar to use when bottling? I have been getting mixed results lattley and mist of my beer has been over carbonated

I saved some yeast that I used in my pumpkin ale. Saved (washed I heard was what the method I used is called)it in a mason jar and let the trub settle and am going to drain off the clear layer and thin milky layer and leave the trub behind. When I re use it I am going to dump it in with some...