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If you have a plan, you have something to measure success/lack of success off of. I know a small brewery that opened without a plan, started making good beer, and selling it. But they had no idea what their margins were, what they projected to sell for the year, and weren't paying themselves...

Hey all, I brewed a pretty good brown ale. Not my best, but still pretty good. For X-mas, I feel it's missing a little something though. I was thinking about making a cold brew coffee concentrate and adding straight to the keg. It's fully carbed and I've had a few pints - I'm just thinking...

My $0.02. I BIAB most of the time and use Beersmith exclusively to build my recipes and set up brew day. Using BS then BIAB spreadsheet seems like double the work... I use the BIAB mash profile and equipment profiles that are built into BS, and plan for 68% efficiency. Full volume, no sparge...

I tasted it and it was delicious. I crashed and kegged, then added some bourbon. The infection came after adding the vanillla beans. Ill just keep cold and drink it until it tastes bad. I agree with everyone saying 6-12 months was too long to bank on an unknown variable. Cheers!

I recently brewed a big porter. 9.1% big. I transferred to secondary after 14 days in primary, and it was delicious. I added 2 bourbon soaked vanilla beans and was going to let it sit a week before kegging. 5 days later, see below pic. So, my local homebrewclub is split between kegging and...

Should you do a 90 minute boil with 50% pils? I know in pils heavy beers DMS is a concern at a shorter boil.

I've used a cold brew for my coffee beers. Someone told me once that hot brew extracts a different bitterness that isn't favorable in beer.

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Water is very different for all grain than extract. Extract already had proper water adjustments made when they were making the extract. Definitely look into water.

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I cold steeped for 3 days and added to secondary for 10. Kegged it and it came out great.

40 gallons. Brown, Coffee Porter, Blonde, honey blonde, peach wheat. 11, 913+40=11,953

I did a peach hef using puree. FG was 1.019 as opposed to estimated 1.011. It was tart for the 1st 2 weeks after I kegged it and carbed it. It mellowed out nicely and won 2nd place at a brew comp recently. Give it time...