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Thank you, little bits of knowledge that will go a long way!

hop schedule was 1oz chinook (60) 1oz Centennial (50) 1 oz warrrior (40) .5 oz centennial (30) .5 oz Mt. hood (20) .5 oz cascade (10) .5 oz cascade(1) 2 oz cascade (dry) with a high abv i was thinking i could away with higher ibu to offset all the sugar. the early additions are all...

FWIW Dogfish 60,90, and I believe even the 120 are all continually hopped. Early on (like when they were the smallest brewery in the country) DFH did this by mounting an old electronic football game above the boil kettle and letting the vibration slowly drops hops into the boil. feds shut them...

Another question for the more knowledgable masses..will one pack of wyeast amearican ale II fully ferment a beer with an OG this high? If i find it stalls before reaching the target FG can i simply pitch another pack without consequence to the final product?

yeah, I use the back room in the basement. The outside temperature has been such that, depending on how much I crack the window, it has been around 68 on the lcd termometer durring peak fermentation the past few days. It's not ideal but I have a system that has been working good enough for now.

So I have seen a number of great recipe critiques that I probably should have taken a look at before brewing this past Sunday. In any event, for my fifth batch I made both my first full boil and first personal recipe the other day and am wondering what some folks think this thing will turn out...

Thanks. Expanding on that a little...I started with 2.5 gallons in the boil, then added two more while cooling. That gives me 4.5 minus whatever was boiled/soaked up. This was my LHBS' take on DFH 60 minute IPA so plenty of hops and boil evap to take maybe .25 gallons out? I'm not sure how...

Either way, it's been added. I siphoned it in without disturbing too much. Live and learn.

I think the target for was around 1.063 -1.064

Any way to interpret my 1.068 OG reading with one gallon of water missing? Any way to adjust it to get an idea of where I started?

So I just noticed there is a gallon of water in my fridge, thus I forgot to add it to my 5 gallon batch late last night. Its been about 12 hours and fermentation looks like it has really taken off already. It was an extract batch, I boiled 2.5 gallons and apparently only added 2 more gallons...

So I have a batch thats ready to be packaged but I'm in a tough spot. I'm in the middle of moving so I have two options. Move the beer currently in a secondary) over to the new house or keg and then move. Option one would be the easiest as all my equipment is over at the new place but I'm...

I finally broke down and entered the homebrew arena with a Black IPA yesterday. My question is about the dry hopping and secondary stage. It seems as though there is some debate as to whether or not a secondary stage is necessary. However, I believe that by adding a dry hop, this should be...