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Hi Everyone, This maybe a silly question....... I was wondering whether anyone had noticed that bottle carbonation ever imparted what appears to be an increase in the bitterness of a beer. I brewed a pale ale that I bottled a week ago. Before bottling I had a great hop forward stone fruit...

Hi Everyone, I have a El Dorado SMASH beer that is ready to be dry hopped however, I was hoping to get advice on the time schedules for dry hopping and whether there is a significant difference between leaving the dry hop for 3, 5 or 7 days? Any advice would be great. Thank you.

That's great thanks for all your advice everyone

This weekend I brewed and I am getting frustrated with my lack of volume control. I would like to get a better understanding of my losses in volume during mashing and boiling. I brew BIAB. I have a 10 gallon boil kettle that I use for my BIAB and I was wondering if anyone knew of the best way...

Hi Everyone, I had a quick question, I'm currently brewing my first dark beer - a porter all grain kit. Usually my go to beer is a hoppy pale/IPA and using US-05 it ferments out within a week using my controlled temperature setup. I had a packet of US-05 left over for this beer so I have...

Hi Everyone, I have got to the point where I'm kind of proud of my beer and I would love to share a few bottles with friends. I had a number of questions that I was hoping that I could get a bit of help with. 1) Firstly, I live in California and it may be naive......but are you...

Congratulations and welcome to the bottling experience! I found the bath to be the best place for bottling....the mess is easily cleaned up. I just wondered did you add your priming sugar to each individual bottle or did you add it directly to your beer before bottling? I've found adding to the...

Hi Everyone I just wondered whether any one knew of any pubs/places where brewdog is being sold in the Bay Area? I have read and watched people talk crazily about the IPA and 5am saint and was hoping to grab some to see if it is really all that has been said of the beer!] Thanks!

I always have a taste after the first week. If your brewing an IPA you often will get a really nice nose and an idea of the bitterness of the beer which was induced by the boil. Room temperature, non-carbonated beer is always going to taste awful....it still might be better than the commercial...

It may be worthwhile to give it a little longer with yeast. In my past experience when these fermentations have been done in 5 days I get a little diacetyl off-flavor in my beer. This mellows and is removed if you allow the beer to spend a few more days in contact with the yeast. The yeast is...

I am planning on brewing a northwest amber ale and I think I'm going to use the partial mash recipe below: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/beer-recipe-of-the-week-big-basin-amber-ale/ I was interested in the instruction to add 3lbs of the DME upon flameout. I have...

When I've brewed NE IPA I've found that the yeast is very vigorous and often cause alot of blow off over the first couple of days of primary fermentation. Don't panic! Therefore when your in the primary fermentor I would recommend using a blow off tube rather than the airlock device. Don't be...

Hi Everyone, I'm currently brewing a NE IPA and the recipe schedules for a dry hop addition directly to the keg. Unfortunately, I'm still in the bottling stage and therefore I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to circumvent this? My thoughts were to transfer from my primary to...

Hi everyone, Thank you so much for your advice. My fermentation bucket actually fits nicely into my brew kettle so I've turned into a swamp cooler. I've got my IPA down to 62 - 66 degrees which I have never been able to do. Its going to be really interesting if I get any difference in flavor...

I'm new to the home brew experience.....but I have been burned using LME the two times I have used it. I bought kits online that come with LME (White House Honey Porter and a Saison) and in both instances I got the same "twang" in my beer which made me pour them down the drain. I took both beers...