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So....I just ordered my spring batch of hops, and am about to start dropping 10 gallon hop bombs all over the place. So far, I have at least a pound each of: Centennial, Columbus, Simcoe, Warrior, Nelson Sauvin, Sorachi Ace, Summit, Palisade, Motueka, Amarillo, and Falconers. Question: What's...

"What kind of beer do you brew?" "I like light beers, like a pilsner, or an ale." "Well I make all types of beers really, you name it. Most recently I made a Belgian Saison" -blinking pause- "Yeah, I tried that Blue Moon stuff once.....it was pretty good." --end conversation--

I wash my yeast, but I've let the cake sit a couple of days before with no problems. No idea how long it would be viable, but I would guess you'd be fine within a week. I leave an inch or so of beer on top of the cake and just seal it back up.

Recipe I'm working on for tomorrow: Target= 11 gallons post-boil 10lb Idapils 2-row 8lb Pale wheat malt 1lb Carapils 8oz Flaked Oats Step Mash: 122F for 20 min 152F for 45 min Fly sparge 75 min boil: 1 oz Tettnang 4.5AA--75' 1 oz Hallertauer 3.9AA--30' 1 oz cracked...

Do you ever just make up a recipe and say "Suuure why not?" YES! Most recent was a Black Cherry Sour Porter. 25% sour mash. Combined with pure black cherry juice in secondary. Turned out.......very interesting. No where near "bad" but not great either. Letting it age to lose a bit of the nose...

I've had this same translucent layer thing happen to beers before. The first time, I was worried but the beer turned out completely fine. Now I just ignore it if it happens. (not sure exactly what it is.... I'm more of a "if it aint broke, don't fix it" type of brewer)

Ohh, just saw that you're trying to get rid of the perle. I would just use them, bumped up to get it where columbus would alpha/ibu wise. It shouldn't make a huge difference in a beer this dark if you are only using hops for bittering.

I would go with columbus over perle personally. I'd probably drop the Williamette as well. I usually only do one addition of bittering hops in my RIS at 60min. Come to think of it, the last one I made used columbus. I might also throw in a slightly lighter crystal malt (60-80L). Using a combo...

Brewing extract or all grain? My philosophy has always been to jump in the deep end. I suppose you could make a really light pilsner, the recipe would be very simple and hard to mess up but......the final beer is going to be about as exciting as staring at a blank wall. I vote make your favorite...

Sounds like bad crush or bad sparge. I have read about sparge water filtering down the sides of the mash and leaving behind most of the sugars. I think that is probably what happened, possibly due to a sticky mash caused by the wheat. Did you vorlauf the mash before you started sparging?

Do you plan on aging the beer? If so you might want to bump up whatever your target bitterness level is because some will be lost during that process in my experience.

Skip extract and just start out with all-grain. Also, you will not get as much out of festivals if you are already tipsy before lunch.

UPDATE: Fermentation done. Here's the recipe I went with: 8 lbs Rahr 2-row 1 lb 20L 8oz Carahell 1/2oz Amarillo (9.8AA) 60' 1/2oz Amarillo 30' 1/2oz Motueka (8.6AA)30' 1oz Motueka 15' 1/2oz Motueka 5' 1oz Motueka Flameout 1 tablet whirfloc 15' 1 packet US-05 + H20 rehydrator/starter...

I am going to try and make delicious juniper ipa later this week, but do not have any experience using these berries in beer. It's part of a homebrew competition brew-off with a set ingredients list that you can make a few changes to. Here's what I've got: 5 gallon recipe. 8 lbs Pale 2-row...

I got my stir plate from ritebrew. around 35 bucks if i remember correct. works great and they sell flasks as well

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Bummer, nevermind then. I can get them cheaper elsewheres. Thanks though!

I'd knock the 120 down to a half pound. That should give you a nice deep copper red color bordering on light brown. Agree with above hop adjustments. Splitting the magnums in half at the beginning will only lower the overall bitterness. Magnums have a pretty clean profile and don't impart much...

I've been tinkering with brewing a clone of Green Flash Palate Wrecker-- an amazing double IPA from the San Diego brewery (pretty much all of their beer i have had ended up being great). Seems no one has put forth a concerned effort to clone it respectfully. Their website mentions that they mash...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080122165218AAty9YX ^found while searching for cheaper by-the-pound hops. The last response is amazing.