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ok so i was trying to rehydrate my yeast today (us05) i boiled some water and let it cool down. it got to cool before i was able to add the yeast so i went ahead and dumped the yeast in and put it on the stove to raise the temp a tad. i ran to the bathroom real quick and came back. the water got...

ok so i've had this beer in the primary for 15days now. i took a gravity reading at 12 days at it was right at 1.010. i have notice alot of u guys are getting down to 1.008. how long should i let this beer ferment before bottling?? whats the general length others have fermented for? really eager...

thanks guys, u think cuttin back to .5 lb of honey malt and carevienna would be better or is that still a lil too much? was just trying to use what i had on hand to make a decent beer. figured more grain more alc. haha. thats one reason i went with the magnum hops to try and counter the...

Went and got stuff for my next brew! Not sure what really to categorize it as. Really just pieced it together with some stuff I already had figured maybe someone could give input or advice? Ok so this is what I've got.... 6.5 lbs us2 row, 1lb honey malt, 1lb flaked wheat, 1lb caravienna paired...

ok so brewed this on sunday and everything went great for my first all grain brew! im looking forward to tasting this beer and i think the wife is too! i mainly brewed this to see if i can get her drinkin homebrew instead of PBR or budlight. Fermentation took off quick and is still very active.

Ok so i built my mash tun saturday and used what i thought were stainless steel wasthers. After i brewed on sunday and was cleaning up i noticed the washer on the inside of the mash tun and the screws to the stainless steel hose clamps were rusted!!! Are there washers out there that will not...

USAFsooner, u have any idea what type of beer this would be?? sounds good tho since it uses everything ive got just need yeast and hops like i was shootin for. Just dont wanna end up with a super sweet beer.

ok so i have the following ingredients. 1 lb caravienne 2 3.3 lb bags light malt extract 4 lbs 6 row honey malt 1 oz whole coriander seeds 1 lb German malted wheat 1 lb flaked wheat now my question is what can i brew with them? idealy i would like to just have to buy hops and...

Ok so i went to lowes and got what i thought would be a tight fitting hose to use as a blow off tube. Well last night i brewed my first all grain batch! it went great but then i noticed that the hose wasn't a tight fit into my stopper at all. Lowes was already closed so i just put the hose thru...

ok so im gonna give this a shot as my first all grain brew!! went and picked everything up today at the lhbs. Had to sub the Caravienne Malt (22.0 SRM) with carapils/dextrin malt, and i decided to use cascade hops instead of the Williamette to try and get a lil more citrusy flavor. Hopefully it...

a friend gave me a 5 gallon water cooler the other day and im wanting to make my first all grain batch. I haven't had time to put a ball valve spicot and filter in the cooler yet, but i was wondering if anyone has ever just mashed in a cooler and used a few feet of hose to siphon your mash back...

Thanks Yooper, so in ur opinion should i just leave it as is, at 74degrees in the closet. or should i put it back in the cooler but not have it quit as cold as before? in other words do u think its fine at 74 or should i try to get it closer to high 60's?

Alright, i took the fermenter out of the cooler and just set it on a towel in the closet. Roused up the yeast a bit and let it sit. Checked it today after work and the temp is around 74% and im getting sime bubbles thru the airlock again, so im guessing the yeast are active again. Is this what i...

thanks guys ill get it out of the cooler tonight and rouse up the yeast a tad and see what happens by the weekend.

ok fermentation conditions are..... i have the carboy in a swamp cooler, temp is around 66 degrees. I used Danstar Nottingham dry ale yeast. Pitched the yeast dry with no starter. Did not really aerate, just poured beer into carboy thru a funnel. so ur saying i should raise the temp?? should i...

Ok so i brewed a brown ale from extract 2 weeks ago today. Its been in the fermenter undisturbed until today when i took the stopper out of the carboy and took a lil sample to get a gravity reading. My reading was right around 1.020 on my hydrometer. My question is, is this a good reading for a...

Ive got a brown ale in the primary right now from my LHBS "Deez Nut brown ale", hoping it turns out good!

Trying to figure out what i want to brew next, and was wondering what everyones favorite extract brew was. One of your own recipes? a kit from someplace? Would really love to brew a lager but i dont think i have the equiptment setup that i need for that just yet. Have a brown ale fermenting...

Hey guys, did my first every brew this past sunday. it was a brown ale extract kit. Everything went extremely well all through out the brew process and i was shocked how well my homemade immersion chiller worked. Dropped from 200 down to 85 really quick. probly about 15 minutes or so but then i...

thanks alot guys, brewed on sunday and have the carboy in the swamp cooler. Works alot better than i had thought it would. Glad to hear of all the success with this method.