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Sounds a bit further than youre looking for but the grey lodge is a phenomenal beer bar in the northeast.

I'm fairly new to brewing but have become swept up in it and spend a good deal of my time thinking up ideas for homebrews and perusing the forums for sage advice. I have always enjoyed creamy and smoother consistency (wexford and guinness spring to mind) and im curious to see what techniques i...

Yeah, ive been getting that impression from everything ive read as well. We are actually planning on dry hopping this one which we have not tried before. We're going for an imperial ipa. Any advice on how long before we check the gravity, transfer to the secondary, and dry hop? I'm from...

Thanks! We decided to wait another week before sending it to secondary. Incidentally, some serious bubbling started happening yesterday as well. Good things come to those who wait.

As of today there are signs that fermentation has been occuring, the head is up to almost the bucket lid. Tonight we are transfering from the bucket to the carboy and getting a gravity reading to learn for sure that things are on track. All of this has helped me calm down considerably so i can...

Thanks to everyone for all the responses. This forum is amazing and is definitely going to help me shake bad habits and irrational fears.

Started my second brew friday, an imperial american style ipa. Because of the large amount of malt used we were expecting a strong reaction during fermentation but our blow off tube is yet to produce any bubbles. Ive read that its possible for fermentation to occur without bubbles but im worried...