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Thanks for the tips guys. In terms of dry hopping I have a ton of hops - citra/centennial/tettnanger/saaz/EKG/amarillo/fuggles..just wasn't sure what aromas would work with NB

I want to try cold crashing my smash (vienna/Northern brewer). I also want to dry hop it. I was told you should cold crash for 5-7 days. If so do i still dry hop 5 days before bottling? Is dry hopping efficient while the beer is cold crashing? does anyone have any idea of what hop would go...

I brewed 2 brown ales, exactly the same beers and exactly the same yeast (used an WLP002 english ale yeast). The first beer is in a glass fermenter. The second beer is in a glass fermenter and put into a bucket filled with water (like a swamp cooler). The temperature of the water is...

it's my friends 40th bday in a couple of months and she's asked me to make a beer for her party. she generally drinks west coast ipa...she also loves the color red. i was thinking of making a hoppy amber ale. i'm not familiar with making recipes as yet so i wanted some advise. also not sure how...

thank you! i will do it this way!

Hey guys. I want to add bourbon to a beer I'm thinking of making. Question is @ what stage do I do this ? I've heard right after your finish chilling and ur about to rake ur beer into the fermenter and I've also heard u add whiskey about 3-5 days before bottling. Can anyone provide insight ...

i'd like to do a 1 Gallon lambic sour beer. what do you think of this recipe? 1.5lbs pils malt 1oz acidulated malt 8oz torrified wheat 1/2 pound raspberries 1/4 ounces Tettnanger/hallertau (whichever i have in stock) added @ 30min raspberries added the last 15min of boil. dry...

just curious when you used the liquid yeast and recap it...did you let the entire container warm up to room temperature first then you put the rest of the container back in the fridge? or did you warm up just the 1/3 of the container?

Has anybody used this dry yeast before? i used it for the first time. Normally I use S-05 or S-04 and a krausen forms and visible fermentation takes place within 12-18 hours. When I used this yeast I didn't get any activity for 36 hours! There was absolutely no Krausen forming and thought...

Calichusetts- just curious, how do you do double batches? brew 2 1 gallons in one day?

has anyone done a 1 gallon sour? thoughts? experiences? any recipes?

thank you everyone for your responses...

I want to do 2 1gallon batches using liquid yeast. I normally use dry yeast so I want 2 compare using a liquid yeast. At this point I don't want 2 make a starter until I see the results of liquid yeast vs dry yeast. The yeast I happen to have is a Wyeast Smack-pack. Can I brew a beer and...

i bought the BBS book because i just started AG brewing. all the recipes i tried are amazing. i've brewed a few of them. after a handful it kinda teaches you how to create your own recipes. i recommend it if you need an easy way to start AG brewing. my 2 cents.

thank you all for everyone's response!