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I just tried my hand at BIAB for the first time, and my OG is 1.020. Beer tastes like water. I realized I should have investigated how to BIAB a little more before I tried it. I plan on going to my LHBS and buying some DME to make the beer drinkable tomorrow. I basically treated it like a...

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I did a continuous hop addition of amarillo pellets each minute for the final 30 minutes. Maybe I just made the beer too bitter overall. I purchased Beersmith before rebrewing this, and I think it will help me, but I want to make sure I have all of my bases...

Hi all, I have an off flavor in my IPA which is making it borderline undrinkable. The flavor becomes more pronounced the more I drink the beer. Basically, my tongue gets super dry and it has a harsh, not hoppy bitter flavor on it. From what I have read, I think that this is the astringency...

Happened to me yesterday after brewing Sunday. I woke up Monday and already had blow off through my blowoff tube and it looked like everything had fallen back in already. This was my first yeast starter, so I figured the process just had sped up. It was also my first time using a swamp cooler...

Fixed. Followed advice on this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/overcarbed-keg-heres-instant-solution-127655/ So pleased. Thanks for help. CHans3

So I changed the lines out today for 10 ft lines at 3/16 in inner diameter. While the pour speed is now much better, the beer is still super foamy. Looking at the beer lines, CO2 is coming out of solution in the lines, creating bubbles. Beer is slightly below 40C and and being served at 10PSI...

I plan on changing out the lines today and see if this helps. I dont think that force carbing the beer was responsible for the foaming because it comes out so fast and the beer was far too warm (did not realize it at the time) when I tried carbing it. Taking out the poppet valve on the...

So I just cleaned out the beer line on the raspberry wheat. Glad I purchased a pressurized cleaner with the conversion it kit. It certainly pours much faster now. I figured a bunch of stuff could get clogged in the poppet, but I haven't removed it to take a look. Hopefully most of the chunks...

Looks like they are 3/16" after all. I bled the kegs, set the gas to 10PSI and I'll check them again in a few days. There are a few chunks of fermented raspberries that made it into the keg. I'll check to see if anything is clogging that faucet. Hopefully, this is the problem and then maybe I...

Thanks for the quick reply. I just dropped the pressure on the reg to 10 PSI, but it didn't help. The IPA flew out again as straight foam while the raspberry wheat dripped out of the faucet. I think the beer lines are 5/16 inside diameter, but I could be mistaken. I am using the existing beer...

Hi all, So I finished my kegerator build (see attached) a few days back and kegged a raspberry wheat and an ipa. I've been out of town for the past few days, and after my roommate got control of the kegerator's temperature (sitting at 36F right now), I tried to pour them both. What is strange...

Thanks for the replies. My fridge still won't cool tho. I moved it away from the wall with the heater but the compressor is still super hot. I think this may be because it is still too close to the wall even tho the one it is against does not have a heater on it. If I leave it off for a few...

So I finished my first kegging last night, and it was certainly interesting. Figured out how all of my equipment worked and kegged a raspberry wheat beer with no problems. Unfortunately, I kegged an ipa only to find out that the pressure release valve leaked. I managed to MacGyver an o ring by...

I'm finishing building one of these this week. Did all of the door work over Thanksgiving by cutting out the door panels and mounting a piece of plexiglass over it. I still need to paint on a primer and then chalkboard paint. By maintaining the original gasket on the door, all of the caulk work...

I am in no rush to get this to finish. I have an ipa and a raspberry wheat I'm ready to keg as soon as my kegerator is done being built. Is letting it sit in the primary long enough all it takes to finish this beer?

I added 5 oz of priming sugar I had kicking around during the boil. Hopefully that helps. I didn't make a starter tho.

I brewed this last night. Here is my temperature control solution Hamper with fermenter stuffed with blankets and clothes. Ambient temp in my apt is 76 according to the thermostat. Seemed to be chugging away nicely this morning. Will this get me below 1.030 for the 3724 I am using?

So I picked up ingredients yesterday and will brew this today. Lhbs did not have 3711 so I am using 3724. Not sure how to keep this up to temp. I am thinking about keeping the apt at ~72ish wrapping the fermenter in a blanket and setting it next to one of the walls with a heater on it. Anyone...

Ok. Going to drop the caramunich and biscuit, up the roasted barley and special b to 8 oz each, and use 3711 Thanks for all of the help guys

Thanks 3711 looks like it will work much better for me