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Getting my basement finished, which is where my fermenting space is/was. stayed a perfect 64 all year round. constrcution startes today and with all the dust and light, i have decided to suspend brewing for the summer. i could do a saison upstairs somewhere but the 2 year old and/or dog would...

Kegged my Allagash White clone. First three pints look like this. Help! I've bottled it before and it did not look like this.

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so i made a Bells Two Hearted clone. og 1.058. used White labs California Ale V, with a 1L starter on a stir plate. its been fermenting for 2-1/2 weeks at 64* ambient. i never saw the fermometer go over 70. got a reading of 1.011 which is below the expected FG of 1.017 per beersmith. i use a...

i'm making a brooklyn brown clone today. its freezing. i'm going to tell my friends it was cold brewed. i don't know how you people in the upper midwest do this in the winter. its 29 out and with the wind chill 16. edit: i missed mhy mash temp 148...ok for a brown i would imagine.

Going to enter my Oyster Stout into a competition. Trouble is i don't know what category. its too low of an ABV for American Stout. i wouldn't characetrize it as a dry stout. There is a small amount of flaked oats. There is an even smaller amount of lactose. OG 1.053 FG 1.012 32 IBU's 34...

i have recipes for the following: 1. Pliny the Elder 2. Arrogant Bastard 3.Dogfish Head 90 Minute 4. Bell's Two Hearted 5. Lagunitas IPA 6. Harpoon IPA 7. Rogue Imperial I2PA

wife got me a refractometer and stir plate for xmas. nailed my temps on the mash. beer smith puts my efficiency at 80%. i'm feeling great. my starter looks awesome. i pitch. as i'm washing out the flask i realize i dumped the magnet that stirs the starter. its a stout and tghere is no way im...

i brewed an sam smith oatmeal stout clone from ahs 3 months ago. it was an extract batch with steeping grains. it has a very strange aftertaste. the initial taste is good, but the back end is terrible and i can't determine the off flavor. my fermentation temps have always been good and i've...

i'm currently aging what i thought was going to be a belgian dark strong. it looked a little light when i was transferring to my carboy so i started looking at the recipe, which i received help from Brooklyn Brewery as i am trying to clone their Local 2. Not only did i not use enough dark...

this picture was taken of 2 beers from the same batch poured less than 5 minutes apart at the same temperature. no taste difference could be detected by anyone that tried both, and it was genrally well received. what gives? it is a Hoegaarden extract clone from AHS.

backstory: first all grain batch. dark belgian strong. mashed too high. pre boil sg was low. added dme to compensate. pre pitch sg was too high 1.09. double pitched belgian strong ale yeast. pictures are 24 hours after pitching. offgassing is very vigorous. i didn't have any hose that fit over...

mashed too high. efficiency was terrible. gravity was only 1.024 preboil was supposed to be 1.046. added 2 lbs of dme late in the boil. good thing the recipe called for 2 lbs of candi sugar and 1 lb of honey. (belgian dark strong) i will also be adding champagne yeast in the secondary 3 days or...

i took a trip to Brooklyn Brewery and fell in love with their Local 2. sent them an email with my guess at their recipe. didn't hear from them for a while. yesterday one of their asst brewmasters got back to me. i plugged his changes into beersmith, and beersmith tells me that its way too dark...

i learned something new so i'd thought i would share. Yards makes a terrific oyster stout. harpoon made a limited batch oyster stout a while back and i also enjoyed it. now that i brew, i was looking to make one. There didn't seem to be much help on the subject on here. mostly people saying how...

i know there are a lot of people on here that don't do secondaries for one reason or another. their points are valid. however, i just peaked in on a hoegaarden white that has been fermenting for 2 weeks. i am 1 point past the target fg. there is a huge head on this beer. should i rack between...

Things were going swimmingly. I split 2 22oz IPA's from my second batch with my neighbor. They were delicious. He insisted on the 2nd one. my first batch, a sweet stout, still wasn't quite ready (i checked on tuesday) so since i'm a stout man, i was brewing a sam smith oatmeal clone as batch 6...

my LHBS stocks the true brew 6.5 gallon buckets. i now have 3 of them, and 6.5 gallon glass carboy. after my pumpkin ale, in what was a brand new bucket it has a yellowish hue. i have washed it twice with c-brite, and have made a point to use it twice as my sanitation bucket with star san. bad...

so i was having a problem losing too much beer on my 2 previous batches. it was suggested that i was maybe losing so much because i was not straining my wort from boil to fermentation bucket. i brewed AHS pumpkin ale which has gotten rave reviews. this time i strained the wort. it tasted...

i have bottled 2 batches(an IPA and a stout). both times i have had a low yield. i am only bottling @ 4 gallons per batch. between the gravity readings, dry hopping, and transferring to a secondary, i am getting a lot of waste. both beers had an OG over 1.065, as well as late additions like...