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Brewing this recipe today as a partial mash – anyone know if a partial mash should use the same 75-min mash-in time as the all-grain recipe calls for? Edit: for anyone else doing the PM, the answer is yes - I hit the preboil target spot-on, though I did have to add 1lbs 2 oz of DME to hit...

5 gallons Irish red 5 gallons sweet stout 5 gallons orange hefeweizen 10 gallons Irish dry stout 5 gallons Scottish 60 shilling ale 6000

This batch was supposed to be a hefeweizen (WL 380), which fermented very very happily for the first few days: When I returned after being away for a couple days, the top of the fermenter had been occluded by dried foam and the blow-off water smelled rancid. I figured the krausen had...

I had (what I strongly suspect was) an incomplete mash on an Irish stout. Started at 1.052, fell *quickly* down to 1.020 (I wasn't keeping eyes on it, brewed it at my new apartment and wasn't able to swing by there for a few days). The temperature of my mash water got a little too hot at the...

They're plastic. I have a bottling bucket I can ferment in if the carboy is done for, though that's less ideal...

Midway through the process of heating up my spathe water, I realized I had a little too much water in the kettle. I bled a little into my carboy, and quickly noticed that it was not happy. The plastic melted a little (nothing burned, just misshapen). Can I still pitch into the carboy?

Despite skimming 31 pages of posts, I didn't see anything resembling instructions for entering the contest. By inference, it seems that subscribing to the thread might be the entry mechanism - could one of the many kind souls in this forum confirm or deny that? Thanks! (and subscribed!)

Sorry, to clarify: 36 hours after I put the fermentor in the kegerator and pumped it to maximum. The ale has been in primary just shy of three weeks now.

I'm trying to cold crash an Irish Red Ale, but the kegerator I bought off craigslist doesn't seem to want to go below 44 (not a problem for serving ales, but a bit warm for most of the crashing threads I've read on this forum). Is 44 too warm to properly cold crash, or will it just take longer...

Yeah, I suspect that was just the result of someone attempting to convert it to a ball lock and giving up halfway through the process... The guy at my LHBS said the keg was set up for pin lock, though. Am I correct that the width of the posts on pin lock are larger than on ball-lock kegs? The...

I bought a set of miscellaneous EQ off Craigslist a few weeks ago. Mixed into the set there is a Firestone keg with horribly mismatched components, which has made identifying the keg type so that I can order the proper replacement parts rather difficult. The threadings for the gas and...

Has anyone worked out (or does anyone otherwise know) the AAU equivalent of cacao when it's added to the boil? I've seen in a few places that it can be used as a bittering agent if added for the last 10 min of the boil, and I'd like to play with using that method in a future recipe. If it does...

Thought I'd go straight to the experts: I pitched a sweet stout last night and the yeast (White Labs English Ale Yeast) has been behaving... strangely. First it was forming these globular/cloudy superstructures in the wort, so I aerated and mixed it up a bit. This morning (T+20 hours) there's...

Hilariously enough (given the first few posts in this thread), this thread is now the first result to pop up on Google for a search for "cornelius keg dimensions". Thanks for providing some great information! I'm happy to have found this community.