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I'm making a simcoe pale ale. Using pro mash I came up with 95.4 IBU. Hop schedule: 1.5 ounce simcoe 60 min (11.9%), .5 simcoe 15 min, 1 ounce cascade 5 min. This seems nuts to me. Am I right? Or am I brewing a really bitter IPA? It's an Austin Homebrew Supply recipe. Grain bill: 10.25 lbs...

I bought a new digital thermometer today and was using it in my mash. I figured out it was not calibrated right about 15 minutes in. It was reading 160, then I doughed in and it went to 172. Then I freaked out and added cold water. Two different thermometer readings with another dig and a...

I brewed a beer and my SWMBO and I really like it. All seems good right? It is. BUT, I thought this beer was fuqed. It was an extact with steeping grains. I did not know that some grains do not do well in a steep. Now I do. After I brewed I realized my "mistake". Here's the recipe. 2.5#...

I have these on hand and would like to not go to the brew store. 7# 2 row 1.5# flaked rye 1# munich .5#crystal 10 .5# crystal 60 1.5 ounces cascade 5 gallon batch. i also have (one ounce each) amarillo, simcoe, saaz, centennial. how does the above look? should I use one of...

I kegged a beer about 10 hours ago. I forgot to purge the O2 out, never in 30 kegs or so has this happened, and just vented it. Is this going to be a problem? I plan to have the keg empty in about 2-3 weeks.

This is my first AG brew. I am making the centennial blonde. After mashing at 153 for 60 minutes I collected about 3 gallons of wort. the SG is 1.020. I feel like everything went well. The wort coming out of my MLT is 1.005. I stopped and the mash has another 3 gallons of water in it sitting at...

I have unlimited access to food safe sanitizer, octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride is the primary ingredient. I was just wondering if this will work for homebrew with no ill effects.