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I recommend looking at the book "Yeast the Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation". It gives great data on how oxygen affects yeasts ability to ferment. You want to achieve around 8-10ppm of Oxygen. Here is the data: Shaking for 5 minutes = 2.71ppm 30 seconds pure Oxygen = 5.12 ppm 60 seconds...

What type of yeast are you using? That depends quite a bit on temperature, if you were at 75 the yeast most likely took off and attenuated fairly quickly, depending on your OG and FG readings. 68 is the ideal temperature (for ales, even a bit lower actually still), I would keep your carboys in...

Hi all, Been a while since I have posted but wanted your opinion on this all-grain recipe. I am going to brew up a simple beer featuring Motueka hops. Here is the recipe for a 5 gal batch: 10 lbs Pilsen Malt 1 lbs Caramel 20L 1 oz Motueka (60 min) 1 oz Motueka (0 min) Wyeast 2124 Bohemian...

Hello fellow brewers! I recently created this IPA recipe, let me know what you think and any things you'd change! Just a note though, I want my color to be a bit higher on the SRM scale, and I'm not looking for a specific style, I like to mix it up a bit. Here it is: Two-Step IPA (I need to...

I took 6 or 7 gallons of water (can't remember which) and then just boiled for an hour using my system. I then looked at how much I had left and then figured it out from there.

Greetings fellow brewers, I am having issues with a very high boil off rate. I am using a 15 gallon MegaPot (not the 1.2 version) and a Blichmann burner. I did a boil test and found that my boil off rate is 31.5%. I know this is extremely high (I believe typical boil off rates are around 8%...

Here is my home-made wood holder for my Therminator and Steel Head Pump. I was getting really tired of having to make sure everything was in the right spot for brewing, along with the hose lengths. With this, it makes it much easier! *Hopefully pics are okay, took with my phone. Let me know...

I designed this stout today and wanted to hear any advice or thoughts on it. I have only brewed a chocolate milk stout (from Northern Brewer) before and would like to try my hand at my own. Right now I am a huge fan of two stouts brewed locally in my area (Bent Paddles Cold Press Coffee Stout &...

IIPA's have nothing to do with their dry hops. Imperial simply means a higher alcohol content. I have dry hopped with 1 oz on several other IIPA's and the aroma is still outstanding

Hello fellow brewers! I'd like to share my imperial black IPA recipe with you all! I plan on entering it in some contests hopefully soon, it's received some great feedback from some professional brewers I know, I am thinking of making a change from using cascade to using mosaic on my next batch...

Here is mine. I used cherry for the wood, an old multicolored light computer fan, poteniometer from radio shack, a hard-drive magnet, velcro, and some good ole' hot glue gun to keep the wires in place :) Let me know if you want more details! Just figured I'd do a quick and dirty response!

Honestly I am not sure what the mesh is. It's stainless steel and does the job for me. I looked at the website where I bought it and couldn't find the specs of it. Here is a picture of it doing it's job though, this is from the 16 oz of hops I put in.

I brewed up the 115th Dream Hopbursted IPA from NB a few weeks ago. I also have the therminator and it still worked like a dream. I use a 15gal megapot along with the hopstopper (http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/hop-stopper). I had absolutely no issues whatsoever, even after using a pound of...

I decided to put in some kit beers I brewed a while back. Right now in the fridge are a shining star pale ale, kiwi express ipa, smashing pumpkin ale (all from Northern Brewer), edmund fitzgerald porter (Great Lakes Brewing), Sierra Nevada Torpedo, and my own creation an imperial black IPA.

Hello fellow brewers, I have been home brewing for a little over 2 years, and have been brewing all-grain for about 1 year. I recently made some bigger purchases to improve my all-grain brewing - Blichmann burner, Blichmann Therminator, Steelhead pump, Johnson A419 Temperature Controller...