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Lately I've changed my IBU calculations to include Gravity Factor (Beer Bigness) and utilization. I got my information from John Palmer's How to Brew web page chapter 5.5 ( http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter5-5.html ) . In his test case a beer with an OG of 1.080 has a total of 31...

I have Mt. Hood growing in the backyard on a trellis system and I've noticed that some of the hop cones never get bigger than a marble size before they begin to dry up and turn brown, while other cones become nice and plump. With the hop shortage and all, I really want to try for a good harvest...

I've noticed that when my hops begin to bud that the leaves always seem to suffer a little. The ends dry up and they don't look very healthy. Is this normal? has anyone else noticed this or do I have a problem. I live in the Chicago area and it gets pretty hot in the summer. The variety is Mt...

I've been brewing for a few years now and have never had any problems with cloudy beer. Now all of my beers are cloudy and so I'm going through some of the changes that I've made lately, and I'm wondering if it is the decoction process that I'm now using. At the end of the mash I trake %50 of...

My local brewer once told me that because of the caramel malts that are available today, there is no need to do decoction mashes any more. My question is, if you are doing a decoction mash, is there any need to use caramel malt in the grain bill?

I like the hop flavors found in American Pale Ales like Sierra Nevada and lighter pale ales like Point Pale Ale. They say that they use Cascade hops to get this hop flavor but I cannot seem to be able to reproduce this in my pale ales. Instead I get a beer that tastes like someone threw some...