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HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Henry Experimental Red/Brown Ale Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: American Amber Ale Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 7 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.055 Efficiency: 70% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.077 Final Gravity: 1.022...

For sure, glick. I'm coming to brewing beer from mostly making gin and country wines, so I haven't gotten in the habit of using chemistry and tools but am also not acclimated to what the right sensory measures are as well. I didn't take a gravity measurement until I thought something was wrong...

Decoction! That makes so much sense. Thanks everyone for your answers. I gave it a taste, and it is a little bit sweet. The gravity is low but dropping. Evidently there is some fermentation going on, it's just not visible. I picked up a new thermometer, but I'm actually going to brew two small...

Hello HBTers- I'm posting because I had an unusual problem and a question that came out of it: my last batch (which was my first all-grain batch) failed to start fermenting, though I pitched a good amount of yeast and oxygenated my wort, etc. I couldn't figure it out until on a strange...