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I brewed a Cream Ale last week using Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast. I am planning on lagering this like a standard Cream Ale but I have never lagered anything, I also want to add watermelon juice to this as well. In reading through this forum it seems like 3 cups of juice should be a good starting...

So here's the results of my first hop bursting with recipe included: 6 gal batch Maris Otter 83.5% Munich 6.9% Victory 4.4% C-120 3.5% Choc Malt 1.7% Galaxy FWH .25oz Galaxy 1.33oz x 15 min Green Bullet .75oz x 15 min Motueka .67oz x 15 min Galaxy 1oz whirlpool Motueka .67oz...

Good to know yours turned out so well. Are you talking about the recipe that is listed above your last post that Glynn did, or did you use one of the specific recipes that was listed in the BYO? I will post the results of my hop bursted red ale as soon as I put my faucet on. The keg should...

Licensed Athletic Trainer in Spokane Valley, WA, working at a physical therapy clinic in the a.m. and high school in the afternoon. If grad school doesn't work out like I hope then I will seriously consider formal brewing education.

Thanks for the info, I do appreciate it. I will probably spread the Galaxy out a bit more then. That is also good to hear about your thoughts on Simcoe & Centennial playing not so nicely with Galaxy. The only variety that I am stuck on is Galaxy because I have 8 oz that I need to get used up. My...

I am getting ready to brew an Imperial Red ale and will be using the hop bursting method. I have been doing quite a bit of reading on this since reading the above mentioned article in Zymurgy and have seen a few places mention a 30 min addition but most don't use 30 and seem to focus on 20 min...

So despite my posting about what to do with my flat barleywine I pretty much have gone against the advice that most people have recommended and have done what I felt would work best. I carefully opened and sanitized all of my bottles and carefully poured back into a sanitized glass carboy and...

So I was going to transfer my fresh hop yesterday since it has been in the primary for 8 days now I figured it would be down around the 1.014 range or so. I took a gravity reading and it is only at 1.020 which still seems a bit high so I agitated the fermenter to hopefully wake up any sleeping...

I'll probably go ahead and not do that. Thanks for the thought though.

So I brewed on Sat. and was very concerned about my final volume so I was pretty stuck on having 7.5 gal starting volume in the kettle, which I got. I was concerned that all the freshies would soak up more juice than they actually did. Anyway, I only did a 60 min boil and did use all 3 pounds of...

Sweet, thanks! Done! I divided all of my hop weights by 6 as I have heard 5-6 is the range most people seem to use. I may play around with 7-8 and see what the numbers come out as. With using 6 my IBUs are still listed at 160 so I know I'll need to play around with those a bit. I even knew to do...

So I'll be brewing my fresh hop beer tomorrow and just have a couple questions. First here's my recipe and I'd appreciate any thoughts on it. I am roughly following the Russian River fresh hop recipe that I found a recipe for and decided to do the entire beer with fresh whole hops as that recipe...

Thanks for the info. I will let the BW set for perhaps a long time and see if anything happens with it. Right now I only have a single keg that is currently occupied but if I can get another keg I'll just keg it or I'll wait until my current keg is empty. I'd really prefer to have this beer...

I recently had a similar issue with a big barely wine that I made last year. It is a mini-mash clone of the JW Lees Harvest Ale from the Clone Brews book. I followed the recipe almost exactly, I did use a time bit more grains in the mini-mash, and started with an OG of 1.126. I pitched the Irish...

Thank you for the very detailed response. I really appreciate your time! I will keep dialing in my system. My markings on my main fermenter I did myself using 1/2 gallon increments. My lines could certainly be off a bit but they should all be relatively close.

So I am still trying to figure out appropriate volumes of water for my system for the different beers I've made and am going to make. I am still relatively new to all gran brewing so bare with me. Equipment: 15.5 gallon keg for brewpot 10 Gallon Rubbermaid Insulated cooler...

So I have a big Barley Wine that I brewed last September that is not carbonating. I am debating what to do with it. I followed the recipe for JW Lees Harvest Ale out of the Clone Brews book and followed each step almost exactly. The mini-mash method states to use 3.3 lb of Maris Otter 2-row, I...

I was given a 5 gallon soda/Corny keg and a 5lb CO2 tank. I believe this is a pin-lock setup. I am prepping to use this setup for the first time in the next couple weeks but feel I still have some questions on how to carbonate/serve. So after I sanitize and replace all the hoses and fittings I...

I just a have a question about adding hops to primary fermentation. I have read in all my books that say not to do it due to the possible risk of infection since pH isn't acidic enough to kill funk due to no alcohol. I recently got a kit from Austin Homebrew Supply that is a clone of the...

So I have some leftover ingredients from a previous batch that I want to do something with. I have 2 lbs of Crystal 40, 1 lb of Munich, and 2oz of Chocolate malt for grains and a 1 gallon bag of unidentified whole leaf hops that I got from a friends back yard last fall in my freezer. I am...