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Seems unlikely to me that having only a couple degrees more in temp would result in a significant difference in hop efficiency. Also the process of fermentation scrubs a lot of the intense hop aroma from the finished beer. Hence the reason for dry hopping in the first place.

Thanks. I think I'll drop the lactose to 1# and give it a whirl. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Here is this chocolate milk stout recipe I came up with from reading some other recipes on here. It seems like it has a lot of adjuncts but I'm not sure. Any suggestions would be great as I have never brewed a milk stout. I used wyeast 1272 and nugget hops for bittering bc this is what I have on...

Sounds like a great recommendation

So I'm trying come up with a malt forward amber style ale think. I'm pretty covered for IPA and have both a porter and stout and want something to fill the gap. Any style ale that would fit the bill would be awesome. As far as what I have on hand is MO for base malt. And hops I have willamette...

I use a banjo with ng and it works great for me. I've read the tip burners are only best at full throttle. I just wanted something with more adjustment.

Thanks Denny. ill post how it turns out when the batch is finished

So I'm brewing the rye IPA this weekend got all ingredients except the homebrew store was out of Columbus so I got chinook instead. How does everyone think this will turn out? Everything about the recipe will be the same except that. I know it will be a different beer than Denny intended. I have...

I got mine from ward labs. Just go on their site and you can select a home brewers test kit. And they send you a vial and a return label. Fill it up, mail it back and in a couple of days they email the results. It was 40 bucks but I think it was well worth it.

We'll that's good I have a good base. I'll start with the primer and see where it takes me. Thanks so much for the info

So I want to start adjusting my water chemistry each brew. I got ward labs homebrew test and I got the results and I dont really know what to do with them so im hoping someone can help. I would love to know what styles of beer would work well without any adjustments and maybe what basic things i...

A hangover supplement? I've already done the field research on that one. It turns out drinking beer for a hangover works incredibly well....bc your just drunk again. You don't need fancy electrolytes to change your hangover cure there.

Alcohol is always gonna dehydrate you there is no way around that other drinking water. Adding electrolytes is all well and good but it's never going to hydrate you. It's like putting reduced fat cheese on a Big Mac. You can do it but what are you solving?

Why not just drink whatever sports recovery drink you like after exercise and then drink a good beer you brewed instead of focusing on this "electrolyte beer" nonsense.

Since your using purée you could take a hudrometer reading before adding the purée and then after adding it. Then take that difference and add it back to your og. Then before you bottle or keg take your fg.