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So I have two small kids and my wife works opposite hours lots of days, so I'm finding it increasingly difficult to do full all-grain brew days. So last month, I fit a "brew day" in on a busy day. I did a "mash in the bag" on my stovetop that produced about 6 gallons of wort. Then I carried...

Interesting thread. In my case, some of my bottle conditioned beers have a slight "plastic" taste, whereas my kegged beers taste premo. Sometimes I wonder if these tastes are all in my head as nobody else seems to notice them...

I'd be cold storing fermented beer and krausening with fermenting beer. The krausen batch would only be a 10 minute boil and should cool very quick due to the low volume. The 2 4 gallon batches would come from one brew day.

So I'd like to have a couple of batches of nice IPA this summer, one in June and one in July...but I'm usually way too busy in the summer to do much brewing. So here's what I'm thinking of doing: 1. Brewing and filling (right now when I have the time) 2 kegs (to 4 gallons full each) of a...

In Brewing Classic Styles, the recommendation is to do primary at 62. In addition to having the correct starter size, Z claims this temp yields the flavor profile of what the classic heff is supposed to be.

I guess for me, I don't brew beer just for beer, I brew to brew--if that makes any sense. Mixing extract in water skips the most foundational part of brewing, in my opinion. But hey, for each his own, and if people love extract brewing then that's cool with me.

I was feeling extra lazy today, so I did a "no sparge" instead of my typical batch sparge. I've been leary of trying this because my mash tun is only 36 quarts. I had 11 lbs of grain and I filled the cooler to the brim with about 7.5 gallons of water. I collected about 6.25 gallons in one...

I watched Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter--Burgundies of Belgium--and if I understood him correctly, lambic brewers do primary and aging in the same barrel. Has anyone tried this?

I take a large tub and fill it with ice water and snow. I put the boiling hot brew kettle right in the tub and use a copper coil wort chiller with a utility pump. Ice water is sucked out of one end of the tub and the return tube is on the other end of the tub. Its a closed loop system. I...

Hey skye buddy, I live in Chan...I've fermented beers all winter in the past with S-05. My lower level is about 58.

A while back, I brewed a pretty standard special bitter...I believe the recipe was more or less straight out of Brewing Classic Styles (all grain). All the brewing targets were hit and I pitched a full packet of rehydrated Coopers Ale yeast in the beer. This yeast purchase was completely...

I've been brewing for aboot 3 years and have a 36 quart mash tun and a 7.5 gallon brew kettle--this can produce 5 gallon batches. I really wish I had invested in 10 gallon setup from the get go--so no I couldn't recommend buying the equipment for a 1, 2, or 3 gallon setup. You can make 2...

Yeah so I did a decoction mash and a 90 minute boil while single handedly watching a 4 year old and a 4 month old (girls). Try doing that all you mofos ;) Happy New Year!

Yeah I know, but still had to ask the question. If you look for Surly Wet on youtube, it shows how they did the wet hopping. Basically they took firehoses and blew hot wort all over a vat of hops. No comments on cardboard taste on that one on beeradvocate.

So I'm doing a decoction mash right now. For those worried about hot side aeration--how can you not be adding O2 with all of the stirring and transferring that takes place in decoction mashing?