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5.5 gallons of ginger tripel 25764

13372 + 5 Gallons of amber wheat + 5 gallons orval clone = 13382

I really doubt the isopropyl got into your beer. With all that force pushing out, how could it? Look into blowoff tube for future vigorous fermentations.

Sniff... Sold speedy the other day. Might have to change my handle to supermoto-n8 if everything goes right next weekend. :)

6217.5 + 5.5 gallons of IIPA = 6223 edit - math is hard

Extract brews are pretty hard for the human to screw up. I would imagine a much bigger variation of taste coming from yeast, temps, time in primary, etc. There are lots of variables, few of which brewers can easily control. Boiling a wort at a specific gravity and adding hops at the...

When doing all grain and full boils, you dont have the option to add water to cool, hence AG brewers use chillers.

6 gallons of old ale, 89.5 + 6 = 95.5

You are tasting a lot of yeast at this point. Thats what it makes it cloudy. The yeast is still working slowly, let them do their thing. It is a good learning step to taste along the way, it will change dramatically along the ride.

Well, you have come to the right place, welcome from a little farther north in VA! Read this site, books, etc. and you will be making great beer in short order.

37,953 + 6 gallons of barleywine = 37,959

I just bottled a *very* sour batch of brew that I asked you about 18 months ago, and figured I would dig this thread up from the dead and see how yours was turning out. Mine tastes very cleanly sour, not much funk noticeable. FG was 1.016, which seems high to me, but it had nice body to...

It will dry it out a bit, but with 1.5lb of c120, i wouldnt think it would hurt to dry it out a bit.

25637 + 5 gallons of Octoberfest = 25642

5 gallons red rye pale ale - 16,954