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Thanks everyone, this is really helpful

I am hoping someone can help me. I am taking the exam next week and one of the guys we practice judging with mentioned that not only do you need to know the attributes of each category and subcategory (which I am okay with), but you also need to have memorized the numbers (i.e. you will just be...

Citra makes an incredible IIPA! My current favorite is a dry hop Citra / Cascade / Simcoe combo for IPA / IIPA

Simcoe and Citra are far apart. Citra has a very noticeable tropical / passion fruit / granadilla aroma (and not much citrus despite what the name suggests). Simcoe imparts a very strong pine / resin aroma. You might get away with an Amarillo / Chinook combo

That's very likely what happened. Thanks! I thought about it and it would actually take very little yeast to cause it.

I have a strange one. I have a keg of weiss that sits outside and runs through an inline cooler. When I hooked it up I force carbed and was ready to serve in about 5 minutes. The beer is great, but after going through roughly half the keg it started pouring extremely cloudy pints. It almost...

Does it smell like beer and does it taste like beer? If it ticks both those boxes then it is okay. You will taste very quickly if something is wrong...

You have a point there, I guess.

I pitched a stout last night and my OG measurement was much lower than expected (1044, should have been 1049). My process was good and I normally hit target so I was quite surprised. Later when I rinsed my Coopers hydrometer out I noticed that with plain water it measured 995 (5 pts lower than...

Thanks, I like that quote. I think another problem is (not knowing any better), I left my hop sock floating on top instead of weighing it down, so likely lost out even more on hop oil infusion.

I brewed a "Fruit Salad Ale" using a Coopers IPA kit + DME with a Cascade and Amirillo "hop tea" as well as additional dry hopping in secondary. After the first week of bottling I tasted it and even though the hop bitterness was pretty extreme and the beer was still quite "green" the aroma...

According to the Coopers website, take 2 liters of water off the boil in a large container, add your DME, then pick the whole container up and swirl gently. I have also done it like that and never had clumping. As soon as you use a spoon it's clumpville. I have never used a whisk but I will...

Hey guys I am very new to the brewing world, having just pitched my third ever brew. I am currently using the Coopers extract cans and modifying from there, but I hope to go all grain in the not too distant future. I am a member on some other forums and I just love the sense of community...