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Hi folks, happy brew day! I'm doing my first IPA and I'm half way through mash and my ph is holding at 5.52 should I lower it for an IPA ? If yes use some buffer or lactic acid? Thank you!

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Was wondering about this and would be grateful for weigh in. I was discussing via email using a stone with 02 after cooling the wort but before pitching for aerating. What about this ( I'm sure this is not a new idea but didn't easily find anything searching) drop in your o2 stone right after...

Hello all, I'm getting ready to send my water sample off to Ward labs. Should I gather my sample directly from how I source my water? That being through my carbon filter system or should I do it unfiltered from my hose? Thank you!

So, I've gone all grain for a few years now and in the competitions my sheets are starting to come back with zero advice, and generally 41 to 44 pts but zero metals. My main question is how long should I age a beer before entering it in competition? I have to think they maybe just too young and...

Help! Ok I coughed in at 152 f, I was looking at my blichmann and it started to go to 150, no problem, just add some heat. After a minute or so it seem to still drop, ok I turn up the heat. I minute later it barely climbs 1 degree. Hmmm I lift my lid and its freaking boiling! !! I cut the...

So I tapped off 3 batches last night with friends. A robust porter, blonde ale and a black cherry stout. All grain, I used "brewing water" and inputed a very close to the mark water report from my area, only substituting ca and alkaline ppm from my fish tank test kit. I only have the cheap ph...

This is an easy one, what is the best ale base for a pumpkin ale? I want to crank one out for thanksgiving. Thanks all!

I have entered a few local contest recently and not gotten even close to a metal. Now this is not my issue at all, im sure ill lose many more. Most of the time however I kind of figure what the problem "may" be, but this time I put a stout in and had no flaw in mind at all. It was an oatmeal...

Hey all, I've been all-grain for around a solid 1.5 years and I fly sparse. My issue is this, im very careful to not raise my hot liquor tank water much higher than 178 degrees F. However after recirculation I start the fly sparse and before I start my run-Off I stop the sparse to take a temp...