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let's do it - we have a group that brews pretty often. also, there's a pretty cool homebrew club called Red Earth Brewers that meets once a month. There's a facebook page and this http://www.redearthbrewers.blogspot.com/ link, too. December meeting is a Dirty Santa, big beer (OG > 1.040)...

I brewed this a little differently, and used 10# of 2 row instead. This turned into a very smooth beer.

Thank you for the feedback, Krapht. I've re-tooled it based on your response. Also, I checked into some other recipes for other beers (ambers, mostly) and saw a much higher proportion of the dextrin. Generally, I upped the 2 row, carapils and dark chocolate so I could drop the crystal. If...

Hey there, I'm trying a shot at a clone for the first time. I love Widmer's Brrr! seasonal winter warmer (with HOPS). I live in Oklahoma, which is like you might imagine is like living in Oklahoma. They aren't shipping Brrr here this year, just Coors. So I'm going to clone it. I've checked...

so cold crash it tonight. pour off the liquid, add clean water, shake it up, and brew with it?

This is a new problem for me! I started my yeast starter yesterday with a vial of WLP051, 1/2 gallon of 1.040 slightly hopped wort. I cooled it in a 1 gallon, clean and sanitized jug using sanitized equipment. It took off like it always does. I accidentally added my stir bar to my last 5...

random observation that may be helpful to someone. To drop 10lb of grain by 0.1 pH, we've read before that it takes about .8ml of 88% lactic acid. For those of us without pipettes, that's an infant tylenol dropper.

Nuisance post from a water science newb: Doesn't the color of the wort stain the strips? I had hell reading them recently. I didn't trust that I was blotting it off correctly and was worried about missing the real pH. Doesn't help that the near-desired pH color was very close to my mash liquid...

I'm especially weak at electrical skills, and the convenience of using the HLT as the heat exchanger sounds pretty logical. I guess I have to buy a march 809 or chugger, right? Isn't homebrewing fun? MacGyver meets Homer Simpson - magic.

Where'd you hear about the SRM - I found all the other info on the Widmer website, but couldn't find the SRM. 23 seems a little dark, but I'm just winging it here. Can't wait to try.

Can we hear about some results? This beer is just too important - who's gotten close? I'm about to start one soon, but I might start doing one gallon batches until I figure it out.

Hey Gang, My efficiency has recently become cruddy. Also, my beer consistency is not as magical as I'd like it to be. I've recently tried a very failed attempt at recirculating mash by draining a gallon at a time, heating it, and putting it back. [stupid moron face with burned hands]. As...

Yea man, I still got it. I wanted to keep the face plate, though. Is that too much for you to not have? Also, it's a heavy sucker - would cost a bunch to ship.

DSmith, this might not be the single best post to fire this question off, but you seem knowledgable and you're here (gracias, oh interweb god, Shiva). Is there agreement on a general chemistry or mineral quantity for brewing water? I've been wondering for a while about water additions - as I...

I had a big problem with tannins in one that I tried this way. Not technically a parti-gyle, or at least, not planned. I fly sparge with 180 degree water. I left the tun full, finished my boil, then drained the tun and made a beer we were calling "backwash ale." It came after a stout, so it...

It's alive. Strong magnets from ace hardware did the trick

Nice - appreciate the tip. I will definitely do that

I have a 1 inch stir bar. I'm going to go to Ace and look for stronger magnets. The little magnet balls are actually outrageously strong. They're the ones that I've glued to the fan. I can't turn the fan down lower - but I'm using a fan that other people have tried. I don't think they're...

They do create a minor vortex. I tested it, and a vortex extending down about 1/2 an inch began. I've read elsewhere that the idea is more than just a vortex, but also to keep yeast in constant suspension - which the balls do. I spent several hours with the stir bar and just could not get it...

Am I a genius, or about to be an idiot? Don't answer that. Just hear me out. My little stir bar just can't seem to get going. However, those little magnet balls that are shiny and metallic work great with my fan magnet set up. They spin like mad. Does anyone think they could cause problems in a...