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So back to the hops themselves do you think it would be an alright combo or should I change it up

A local brewery uses some mixture of these hops in no way trying to duplicate his beer rather using it as an idea to build on......I am shooting for the high 70's pils for ibus so that's why I added the hops at 45

should i just change that and dry hop with cascade or chinook?

Hey want to brew an american ipa and was wondering if anyone would mind looking over my hop idea and letting me know what they think. This is my first attempt and an ipa recipie so bear with me. Chinook - 1.00oz 60min Chinook - .50z 45min Willamette - 1.00oz 15min willamette - 1.00ooz...

I have a bunch of apples ready to pick and make cider with now. However i dont have the time to do it (right in the middle of montana bow hunting season) anyway my question in would it hurt to freeze the apples and if it doesnt matter would it work better to leave them whole or to chunk them...

First off i want to say thanks for all the replies so far. Pappers let me start by saying I that i in no way meant to put this in here thinking it was a great recipe i didn't know about posting in the other thread first i was more just looking for sound advise. On that note i am getting some...

Ingredients: 9.5LB Pale Malt (2 row) 6LB Pale Male Maris Otter 1LB caramel/crystal malt 120L 1.6 oz chinook - 60min 1 oz amarillo - 30min 2 oz cascade - 15 min 4 oz oak chips added to the secondary for 7 days This is my first attempt at building a recipe from scratch i used beer...

So i am getting ready to do my first all grain batch and i am looking for a simple way to figure out my efficiency?? I know there are tons of threads but just thought that it never hurts to ask. And i want to have all my ducks in a row before i attempt it. Thanks for any and all help

Thanks for the help i took a gravity reading when i transfered to my secondary and it was dead on where it should of been. I had good fermentation with a good sedament base when i drained my primary and my secondary is 4 days through and i am still getting a good base build up. So i am going to...

Thanks for the help i took a gravity reading when i transfered to my secondary and it was dead on where it should of been. I had good fermentation with a good sedament base when i drained my primary and my secondary is 4 days through and i am still getting a good base build up. So i am going...

I brewed the following batch expecting to get a og reading of around1.060 and i came up with 1.030.... 3lbs white wheat malt 6.5lbs wheat lme .8oz amarillo hops 1oz bitter orange peel .4oz whole cloves 1 stick true cinnamon I brought roughly 3 gals of water to 165 and steeped my...

just brewed this one agian got some questions i changed the hops to amarillo hops so given the fact that they are a stronger hop i cut them back to .08 oz everything else was exactly the same except for i added a cinnamon stick to the steeping sack as i have with both batches...

Sorry when i said HG i meant high gravity atleast it is in my case being somewhat new to brewing and thanks for the tip paul

So i came up with my own idea of what i would consider i HG lager. it worked out to be in the 8.5 ABV range. The only thing i really did differently from my normal batches is i used 2 lbs of corn sugar and to packets of dry yeast so i could jack up the ABV. When i bottled the beer i also...

what about brewing this beer but adding peach extract at bottling? Looking for a good ale to mix fruits with