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Yeah after this batch I think I am going to switch out Chinook for Cascade and try two batches with that combination (The 3 C's + Fuggle/Target). For this combo though I want to see if I can improve upon this hop combination (Chinook, Cent, Fuggle, Columbus) And from the consensus, Im going to...

Im 6 batches of IPA's in and I've tried AG, DME, LME, a few combinations of the 3 - all with different hop combinations (My dart board strategy). All of them have been drinkable but this last batch has been by far the best. I wanted to share the recipe, say what I didnt like about it, and...

I've been messing around with a few different process as well as different ingredients/methods, and I have been struggling with getting a high starting gravity. So far I've done all-grain, all DME, all LME and a few combination brews (mostly IPA's) but I cant seem to get the starting gravity...

Im brewing in a bag and I do have a 10g kettel that I use for soups, it just seemed like over kill. So the previous 3 recipes that I did all started with 3-3.5g of water at starting boil and then had a top off of 2g .... Which to me would seem like the same thing as starting with 6-6.5g at...

Well the pot is bigger (5g) - I just use 3g of water for the initial boil. On BeerSmith, this setting (3g pot) just happens to have the same boil, fermentation, and bottling amounts as I normally do. After the 3g wort cools, I add 2g of water to make 5g, add the yeast/hops, seal it up, and throw...

I believe I want to use the Pot (3g/11L) as the batch (5g), boil (3g), and bottling (4.75g) volumes are inline with my current setup. After looking at the Beersmith's definitions of "Mash Settings," I believe I want Single Infusion, Full Body, No Mash Out? And the fermentation is just single...

I took a screen shot and attached it. I'm going for 3 gallon mash/5 gallon fermentation, I have chinook Alpha at 13% and Centennial at 10% and I keep the lid partially on to help with boiling. What should the efficiency be? @Queequeg - I really really like the taste of chinook (and really...

Sorry to resurrect this but I had another question come up. I was playing around with BeerSmith last night and and I put in this schedule of hops: 1oz Chinook at 60 mins 1oz Chinook / 1oz Centenial at flame out 15 mins 2oz chinook / 2 oz Centenial Dry Hop 7 days and the IBU's came out to...

No to the software, I didnt even know such a thing existed. Whats the name of the program? So taking all the suggestions into account, does this look better? 7 lbs 2 row 3 lbs maris otter 1 lb sugar 1oz Chinook at 60 mins 1.5oz (or 2.5oz?) Chinook/1.5oz Centennial at 5 mins .5oz...

How much sugar and when? And I love the taste of pine! : ) I know that the hops Im using are pretty powerful, I kind of want to go over board on this batch and then tone it down/add other flavors in in future batches. Use this as a base and then maybe add citra and/or cascade in the next one.

I'm about to start my fourth batch of beer - the previous 3 were an IPA, a Stout, and a Red - so far everything has turned out fantastic and without any hiccups. However, they were all from posted recipes. Now I want to do my own recipe with a few of the hops that I've liked the best so far...