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Yea I added 2more oz in a screen when I kegged the beer.

No just water from my tap. I’ve always used that and never run into any issues

I haven’t used calcium chloride before. I’m interested. How do I incorporate it into the beer? Will it dissolve easily?

Yea it’s definitely a littl darker than I anticipated. That’s one of the downfalls of using extracts!

Yes it was: 10lbs of ultralight malt extract 1lb Flaked oats 1lb Flaked wheat 1lb white wheat malt Hope schedule was 60- .25 oz of Columbus 10- .5 oz cascade Whirlpool: .5 Amarillo .5 mosaic .5 simcoe Dry hop in primary: 1oz Amarillo 1oz simcoe 1oz Columbus 1oz mosaic Drop hop secondary 1oz...

I only added .5 oz of hops at 60 min and everything else was at the end of the boil, whirlpool and dry hopping. I didn’t taste it before kegging and I’m kicking myself for that. It’s definitely not a hop bitter flavor it’s almost like a chemical bitterness and my first thought was that it was...

I just brewed a very hoppy NE IPA with 9.1% ABV. It spent a total of 22 days to hit target gravity. I just kegged it directly from fermenter. Set the C02 to about 10PSI to keg condition at room temp. Tried the beer from the keg just to see what I was working with and it has a very overly bitter...