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I always put aluminum foil on top then put the lid on to hold it tight. Seems to help a little and doesn't touch the goods

I just made a Great Lakes Christmas ale clone on Friday night and used 3 cinnamon sticks with about 5 min left in boil and added ginger with 12 min left. In my experience the ginger can be over powering so i try not to leave all of it in primary but the cinnamon I leave for a couple weeks in...

I used to get that metallic taste in all my pale ales. I thought it was when I was using wheat. Not sure but I haven't used wheat in a while and haven't had that metallic taste either.

Why are the carboys in a bucket??? Prob a rookie question

So the batch that I screwed up and boiled the pineapple the whole hour has been bottled for a week. I added 2 cinnamon sticks and some vanilla extract to the secondary for a week. It's finally drinkable and think I'm gonna leave it till Christmas and hope it turns into a nice Christmas ale

Sounds good thank

Sonia there some math to this? Lbs of grain to loss of degrees???

Oh and probably 2.5 to 3 gallons of water

It's a partial mash recipe that had bought last week and has about 6lbs of grain that is room temp (77 degrees) I need to mash at 148

But is there a loss right when u add your grains???v say I want to mash at 150 what should my temp be to start so that when I add my grains i won't be too low

Just bought a 10 gallon cooler to mash with and was wondering the expected temp drop when I add my grains?? I am on my phone so could not find the thread for it. Thanks

2 weeks in primary and has been in secondary for 8 days now. Also skipped oak chips this time to cut down on cost of rum if that helps. Hit og and fg #s pretty close as well. Was thinking maybe bottle conditioning for a while would help but thought some vanilla and cinnamon would be beneficial...

Thanks that thread helps

So my batch that I messed up by putting pineapple in at beginning boil has a real strong alcohol taste and a off pineapple taste. Wondering what to do with it. Normally I would just keg it to get rid of it but being a high alcohol that's not a good idea. Any recommendations on what to put in to...

Nice. This helps a lot. Thanks

As of now I do partial mashes. I would like to not use any malt extract anymore but am not quite able to get a full all grain set up. I was going to get a 10 gallon Cooler from HD. Could I just mash in there then transfer to kettle and maybe rinse grains and add that to kettle to boil. Noteven...

i am brewing this tonight and am using 2.5 lbs of 2 row and 3 lbs of dme to make up for the other 2 lbs. will this work?????and i am using galena hops. would using the whole oz be a bad idea. thanks

Just realized I added pineapple and cinnamon at beginning of boil. Interested to see how it compares

Brewing this for a second time. Even more fun having one while brewing . Even decided to garnish my beer with a piece of pineapple. Thanks for the recipe and I will tell ya my friends love it and will even drink it warm also.

I recently used priming sugar In a keg. Let it sit in the closet for a week and then put it on about 8psi. Well carbed and a nice head. Is there any negatives to doing this in the future