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Thanks for the link, it is very helpful. I guess the question I need to figure out now is...is a white IPA an American ale or a Belgian ale? I guess it just boils down to preference.

How much priming sugar should I use to bottle a five gallon batch of white IPA? My homebrew shop only had corn sugar in one pound bags and I know that is way too much.

When I finish a beer I always rinse out the dregs and put the bottle in the dishwasher. Then I put the bottle in storage until I am ready to bottle my beer. The bottles get sanitized immediately before beer goes in them.

I want to brew the Belgian Strong Golden Ale extract kit from Norhern Brewer. This one: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/belgian-strong-golden-ale-extract-kit.html Will it be okay if I leave the beer in the primary fermenter on the yeast (Wyeast 1388) for 2.5 to 3 months then go straight to...

My OG was 1.10 and my ABV is around 9.4%. Is that high enough for champagne yeast? I really don't like S-04 and would prefer to keep it away from my beer.

I used WLP 007, Dry Eglish Ale, to brew a RIS back in December. By the time I get to bottling it will have been aging for six months. I will be adding some yeast to the bottling bucket and am wondering if there are any reccomendations for what a good yeast to use for bottling would be.

I've already got 3 months aging at temps around 55-60. Then I moved it to a carboy and got another month and a half in the low 60s. I am just trying to decide what I should do with it for the last month since I won't be home to bottle until then.

Definitely going to add some yeast to the bottling bucket. Do you have a suggestion on which type? I was thinking about Nottingham Ale or US-05.

In December 2012 I brewed the Cannonball Stout extract kit from Austin Homebrew. It had an OG of 1.10. I let the beer sit in the primary fermenter until the third week in March when I moved it to a carboy. I planned on leaving it in the carboy in the garage until June then bottling it when I...

I bought the white IPA kit using liquid malt extract from Austin Homebrew Supply. I was overcome by events and not able to brew when I thought I was going to. I am now getting ready to go out of town for work and won't be back until June 2013. Will my kit still be good to brew in June? The...

I have a 1.6 liter starter of WLP400 (White Labs Belgian Wit) going for a white IPA. Normally I would put the starter in the fridge for 24 hours and decant all the spent fluid and just pitch the yeast. I am afraid that with such low flocculation I will be throwing out most of my yeast if I...

So you are saying that the three types of oak all offer the same flavor profile, just differing degrees of intensity. Is that right?

I am looking at an old ale recipe kit on morebeer.com and it says that the beer can be aged on Hungarian or French oak cubes to add a bit of flavor. I went to the section of their website that has the oak cubes and found a lot of options. Can someone tell me what the difference in flavor will be...

It was a big one too...1.10 OG.

I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout right before Christmas. I let it ferment at about 68 degrees for almost three weeks. At that point I had to leave town on an extended business trip. My wife did not want the fermenter full of beer hanging around in the closet while I was gone so I moved the...

Some people are beer drinkers and potheads...

I think that my stomach would fill up with fluid long before I could ever get drunk on Guinness. Now the Imperial Russian Stout from Stone that I am about to crack open is a different story...

Is this something that is typical of British style yeasts or is it just the S-04 that does that?

I brewed a Pyramid Snow Cap clone from extract. I got the kit from Austin Homebrew and used S-04. I pitched at around 70 degrees and fermented at about the same temp and got some serious blow off from during the first 24 hours of fermentation. I bottled after 17 days in primary and let the...

I agree that US-05 will give you a fine beer. However, if you are looking for a bit more British character S-04 may be the way to go. Either way you will get good beer.