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Hey everybody, I just racked the first beer I had ever dry-hopped to a keg. I mean I've dry-hopped before, but always bottled afterwards. First time I've put a dry-hopped beer into a keg, lol. Anyway, I tried my best to filter out the hops (I dry-hopped with pellets) but I KNOW some hop...

My version of Beersmith is the latest update of v2. OK, so I've lowered the chocolate down to 1 oz, and yes, it's a 5 gallon batch. Both Beersmith and Tasty Brew are giving my an SRM of 9. Is that in the normal range for an ESB? Thanks for the help so far guys.

The Crystal is 60L and the wheat is for head retention. I thought the chocolat/black malt would be ok...I've heard that Double Dragon Welsh Ale (a best bitter) has a touch of chocolate malt in it.

I dunno...I used Beersmith for the recipe and without the chocolate/black malt the colour was down by the left of the colour meter, near teh yellow, so I wanted to get it more in the mid range. I kept adding black/chocolate malt until I got the colour inthe middle.

OK, I'll have a look for that for future batches, but for now I am stuck with either using Black or Chocolate as that's all I have at hand and brew night is tomorrow night. Sooooo black or chocolate?

Hey everyone, I need to get a bit more colour into an ESB recipe I came up with using Beersmith and I was wondering if either Black malt or Chocolate malt was better than the other for that task? I'll be adding 4 oz of said malt to the mash which otherwise contains 9 lbs Maris Otter, 8 oz...

OK, good to know. So the only real reason to rack to secondary is really if you want to dry hop or something similar? It seems like popular opinion nowadays is to just leave it in primary for fermentationand conditioning?

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone can tell me where my greatest risk of accidentally oxidizing my beer is between these two options: a) keeping the beer in primary in a plastic bucket for the full 3 weeks, or b) racking to a glass carboy for secondary after 1 week. Thanks! Nick

I'm on crack. Should have used Google before posting....#5 PP *is* food grade plastic.

Is it ok to do? I bought some cheap buckets from a BoP Winery today. They're 6.5 gallon and they hold bags of the juice. They're all PP #f plastic which I'm pretty sure is not food grade. Is storing malt in these ok? Nick

Thanks Drink, that seems to be the general consensus. I'll keep the crystal to a minimum for the next few batches and see what happens.

Thanks for the input guys. All really good info!

The recipe was one I just made up on the fly, for an American Pale Ale. 8.5 lbs 2 row pale 1 lb Crystal 1 lb Carapils .25 lb Torrified Wheat Mashed in at 156F, ended Mash at 152F. 1 oz Nugget 60 mins 1 oz Cascade 0 mins Pitched with one pack of S-05, dry. I do have a feeling my...

All grain.

Hey guys, I just racked a 1.062 OG ale to secondary. It had been sitting at 1.018 for the past week, so I knew it wasn't going to change by sitting in the primary any longer. It tasted pretty good (overly malty though) and I was wondering if one of two things might drop the FG a bit...

If you're looking for pint bottles, any Polish lager is usually pretty cheap and usually pretty good, too. Lejazk comes to mind.

I pretty much stick with bitters, pale ales, IPAs, etc. Damn, I was afraid 8 feet would be too much! Oh well, As long as it's an improvement over my previous 4'-6" 3/8" lines I'll be happy. Sometimes the pint was more than 1/2 foam!

LOL! I wish I could say a few too many homebrews was responsible for that, but that was just a good old fashioned brain fart! Yeah, you are right, my new lines are 8 feet of 3/16" ID tubing. Is that a good length and diameter?

Hey guys, Replaced my kegerator lines last night. What a PITA. Anyway, got'er done...just wanna make sure I got it right. I replaced the 2 five foot lines of 3/8" tubing with 2 eight foot lines of 3/16" tubing. I had some pretty excessive foaming with the original lines...should my...

Just thought I'd share the news! ('cos I'm pretty pumped about it, lol) Double Dragon clone from Brew mag a few months ago. Target pre boil gravity for 6.75 gallons was1.040, we hit 1.044 Target OG was 1.049 for 5.5 gallons, we hit 1.051. Efficiency was 87% with 32 ppg (how is that even...