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Ok so I brewed an all grain ESB style right after thanksgiving. I let it ferment about 2 weeks and had a stable FG for 3 days. After the 3rd day I moved the fermenter into my beer fridge which dropped it from 68 down to the low 50s. I THOUGHT this would make the beer crystal clear. After...

Yesterday I brewed my first "solo" All grain batch which was an ESB recipe I formulated based on other recipes I had found. I had 13# of grains. 10# of base 2 row. 2# 20L and a pound of 10L. I have beer smith and using 72% efficiency it said I should have OG of 1.06. I ended up with 1.0534...

So primarily I have done all extract or partial boil batches up until sept when my FIL and I did an all grain heady topper clone (using cloned Conan yeast). He is an experienced brewer and after the batch was done he left me with an igloo cooler he had fit with a valve that we used as our mash...

I I am going to play around with this tonight but I am planning to do a "simple" all grain ESB over the long weekend. I am wondering on the hop schedule. I am planning on using EKG & progress. 5 gallon recipe. My base profile is 5# ea 2 row and Maris otter 2 lb of 10L and a pound of 20L...

I am readying to brew a 5 gallon batch of a brown/black IPA probably this evening. It's for a local tasting/event coming up in early sept. My issue lies in that I am a big hop head. So I am looking at a pretty high (I think) hop profile, but I am afraid I am overdoing it and it will blow out...

I am planning to pick up some grain/dme to do a pseudo clone of the alchemist/stone/nasaki collaboration beer. Basically I am going to try and imitate their base malt profile but going with my own hops based on what I have already. Going to do a 5 gallon batch, thinking of 1 oz warrior at 60...

Last night I kegged a wheat IPA (warrior makes a dandy bittering hop)... blasted it at about 30 psi's for a while while rocking the keg last night, then set it to around 12 psi's before i went to bed and left it on that until tonight. Took a sample seemed "OK", still needs a little more...

Ok so 2 kegging questions. First off I did a wheat style IPA that I brewed 2 sunday's ago (believe that would be the 9th). Yeasties went to work within 6 hours of pitching, and I still had airlock activity going as recently as i think it was tues this week. It's been at about 70* for the...

Ok so i'm not TOO concerned but freaking out just a little bit.. But I brewed a wheat IPA last night, and it all seemed to go fine. I do partial/mini-mash, so i steeped my grains for about 20 minutes or so until i got up around 170 degrees. Pulled off the heat added 5 lbs LME, back on to...

I am planning on brewing a White/Wheat IPA sometime this weekend. Ingredients from Austin Homebrew should be here later today, but i'll likely brew sat night or sunday. My question basically is i'm doing a 5G batch, probably 3.5G boil. It's an extract or mini-mash with some LME ontop of...

Ok so I'm trying to do somethign "different" for a brew this weekend. Planning on ordering ingredients today. Basics - part of the hop profile comes from a sale pack at Austin Homebrew, I used some of the hops along with Centenial to get a profile I think will work. Going for a...

I am looking to order some ingredients for a brew tonight or Monday to brew next weekend. Austin is having a sale on a package of hop pellets 4 oz each of galena warrior summit and progress for $19. I am thinking of doing a white/wheat ipa and ordering this along with some base grains and maybe...

I brewed a batch last Saturday. Cooled my wort and pitched some S-04 yeast. By Sunday am it was going like gangbusters. Then the problems started. I have been using our bonus room as it stays a bit colder than the rest of our house. However I didn't think it was THAT much colder. Temps had...

So I just did a partial mash ale recipe. Pitched the yeast around 70 degrees after using my wort chiller to get down to temp. My question is where to ferment. We live in Memphis so the temps this week look pretty consistent with highs in mid 50s lows in low 40s. We keep our house in the upper...

I am very excited I received a copper submersion wort chiller for Christmas along with a few other supplies and goodies from AHB. My question for those experienced with using these chillers is if there is anything I need to do before initial use? Other than the obvious wash it and sanitize it...

Ok so I entered 2 desperate entries into a small local octoberfest competition near here. I entered in 10a just a regular pale I had laying around and then in 10b with an amber I had made (with some formulating help from a friend) that was designed to have the amber malt/color but was high on...