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Thinking about my question further, the last brew I did was an Irish Red that was under carbonated in my opinion and I was trying to troubleshoot that. The Irish Red was fermented with a kveik yeast (ripped though it in about 3 days) and then sat for about a month before I bottled. Maybe that...

I brewed the Sweet Stout recipe from Brewing Classic Styles (p.167) a couple of weekends ago and will bottle this weekend. My question concerns dissolved CO2 remaining in the beer post fermentation. The beer fermented in a wine fridge set at 68 degrees for 3 days. Temp was raised to 74...

In my quest for ever-better homebrew, I purchased the necessary items to aerate with oxygen. Specifically welding oxygen purchased at Lowe's. So I brewed EdWort's Haus Pale Ale yesterday, hit the cooled wort with about 30sec of the O2 and then pitched a pack of Notty at about 4pm (wort temp...

Awesome that on our homebrew forum, a 5 page (soon to be 6, 7, 8....) thread would surface about Brussels Sprouts!!! But what to drink with them? Something heavy and malty for the bacon-y versions? Or something crisp and light to cut the fat? Think I'll be smoking some Brussels Sprouts while...

I did this a couple of year's ago with this recipe. I think I did all of my additions in the last 20 min of the boil and scaled up on the hops amount to hit the IBUs. Turned out very piney tasting. Not green of or off in any way, just intensely piney from the hops. Hate to admit this, but...

Any thoughts on 'Imperial'-izing this recipe to end up with an Imperial Red Rye? For me, I'd need the extra fermentables to come from DME additions because I only have a 5 gal cooler to mash in. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Brewed up the OP recipe about a month ago and plan to crack...

Drinking a few EdWort's Haus Pale Ale made with Sterling Hops. Brewed up a Red Rye Ale today with my new Blichmann Burner. Love that thing!! Super even heat and no noise like the crawfish burner I have been using. Plus no carbon build up on the bottom of the brew pot to clean up. Happy...

Just put together my new Blichmann burner and, man, am I excited. Brewing up a Red Rye Amber with it tomorrow!!!:rockin:

4635 + 5 = 4640 Sub'd Sterling for the Cascade and looking forward to tasting the difference.

Brewed up EdWorts Haus Pale Ale this past weekend with Sterling Hops in place of Cascade. Missed OG by 2 points - don't think I boiled off enough. Bubbling nicely now. Also bottled 5 gals of EdWorts Apfelwein and started a new 5 gal batch of Apfelwein. Thanks, EdWort, for all the goodness...

White Ale I brewed for an Easter Crawfish Boil. Bitter orange peel did its job.

Brewed this 3 weeks ago and just cracked one open. Awesome!! First time to brew with bitter orange peel and it turned out great!! Taking this to a crawfish boil on Sunday and thinking it's gonna be perfect.:ban:

In addition to my love of all things homebrewing, I am interested in learning about computer programming and have no prior knowledge. I've done some looking on the inter-webs and a little investigation of Ruby. Any advice from computer programmers on a good way to get more knowledge? Please...

Heating up strike water for EdWorts Kolsch. Plan to drink this at our annual Mardi Gras Party!! Man, I love brew day!