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Thanks a lot for everyones help. I don't think I ever realized the DME had adjuncts in it and may in fact be the culprit.

So you would keep all the specialty grains the same amounts and only reduce the 2row/pilsner base malt, and then add DME at the end. I can try that. Also, would you keep the hop amounts the same for bittering/late additions or would you adjust those since the gravity of the majority of the...

I currently use the 5 gallon Braumeister so my grain amount is limited to about 12#. Anytime I have a recipe with more then that in grain weight I have been using less base malt and adding DME. I use beersmith so I adjust to make sure the OG is similar. I add DME to that start of the boil, no...

Yes, just checked the gap is at 1.2mm. I did efficiency based on Brewers friend online calculator to determine my potential and actual. It was on par with what beersmith was reporting. At the end of my mash even with extra 3L water to sparge, after boil I have just under 5 gallons...

I fill up to the top score mark on the middle post. Perhaps it is because I am not sparging with 170 water and missing out on those sugars.

So lately I have been only achieving 61-63% efficiency with my 20L. My crush is good with some powder. I sparge with 3L of water after I lift the malt pipe. I only end with slightly shy of 5 gallons going into fermenter and start the process filling to the top hash mark. My last one I did...

I have stopped making 4 gallons of starsan on bottling day and submerging the bottles to sanitize. I now use the bottle squirter that sits on top of the bottle tree and don't worry about it.

It is just the make up of your home water that can cause the starsan mix to immediately cloud up. Has no effect on the pH (I check with strips) or the sanitizing effects. I use it cloudy for weeks with no issues..........let me find some wood to knock on.

Has anyone done a clone of this beer and instead of using the Sterling/styrian combo, use only aged hops? I have 10oz left of some and was hoping to use them up. Any potential downsides with adding 2-3 oz aged hops at the start and nothing else for the boil?

I have used PB2 in the boil before. I was planning on the same brew to boil it with some water and use it for secondary also, however instead I picked up Watkins peanut butter flavoring and put a little in at bottling. It was a hit.

I am looking for a good quality flavoring of those 2 flavors. I want to use it for a strawberry and blueberry wine I made but also to use for a strawberry blond beer recipe. Anyone have good suggestions and where to get them that taste good and not artificial?

So this one has been sitting around aging. I used the morebeer all grain kit. I started it about 1 year ago. I checked the gravity 2 months ago and again today and they are both 1.014. Would you bottle or continue to keep it in the carboy at this gravity? When you do bottle, what...

Is there a certain method to do this? Do I add the sorbate first, then the same day add extra honey? Or does this not matter? Should I do it now by combining the 3 carboys back into the bucket or should I wait a month?

So I have been following morebeers mead instructions. I used 15# orange blossom honey into 5 gallons. Started at 1.110 and used 71b yeast. I used 4 campden tablets a few days ago and transferred and degassed today. It finished at 1.000. It came out to 14.7 abv which seems high to me, I...

Started this mead 2/4. 15# orange blossom honey with 5 gallons water. I proceeded according to Morebeer's mead instructions. Did 3 different nutrient additions during fermentation. I ferment open in a bucket (bucket lid and airlock laying on top just not locked down) yeast was...

thanks Could I have prevented it with some nutrient additions during fermentation? Perhaps some Fermaid and DAP?

So I made the Ciderhouse select cider kit per instructions. However after bottling (unfortunately I did not notice prior to bottling) there is a strong rotten egg smell. Has anyone else had this issue with these kits? I suppose there is nothing I can do at this point.

does anyone use this? I picked it up recently but have some problems. The description says it can do wine bottles however the streams do not seem to reach the top of the bottle. Rather it gets caught in foam in the bottle neck. I have tried also with 375ml bottles but after 30 seconds...

I have only mashed with it. However I would assume (not based on experience) that it would cause some haze and really pumpkin has no intrinsic flavor. I don't think it would do much good, IMO.

I am the same way, if I see something in the neck like tannin powder, fruit bits or whatever, I tend to wipe them off. Leaving it will not cause any issues, all is clean anyway. But I take a papertowel and dunk it in starsan and wring it out and use that to wipe out the neck as far as I can...