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If you follow the instructions you'll probably be fine. Just don't package the beer until you are sure it's done fermenting. 10 days will probably be fine but sometimes it can take longer. If you dry hop for 3 days or 7 it probably won't have a perceptible difference. As far as temperature...

I'm no artist but I've been very underwhelmed by the image generators....it seems to me they have a long ways to go. Artists will still be necessary in the future.

I got hooked on homebrewing through a book. But I have to say it was the second book that hooked me in. Mind you I'm not an avid reader by no means. I'll do 2-3 books a year tops. One birthday my wife gave me a book on homebrewing. She knew I liked beer and I liked to cook so she was...

This is pretty cool. I think we all know the limitations it has but I like your app and even the picture of the color at the end is a nice touch.

I don't have an RO system... But I was under the impression that drinking RO water (and distilled) can be bad for your health. As the water completely lack any minerals it will absorb the minerals in your body until some equalibruim is achieved and then are flushed out of your body. I...

I brew once in three months, 5g batches. But I think about brewing almost every day, does that count?

I made my own recipe calculator on excel. There's a tab for notes for brew day, packaging day and tasting notes.

You're worrying too much. However lower temps tend to promote clove phenolics with heffewizen yeasts, higher temps tend to swing toward banana. If you have a preference for banana you may want to adjust the temp. Just curious... The temp of what is 62? Temp of your basement or your beer? If...

They probably can't be removed without damaging the integrity of the cap itself. If you do manage it they probably won't hold up to the pressure for bottle conditioning. I had a somewhat similar issue... Though I had removable rubber gaskets, the tops themselves were plastic. There was a thin...

Ok after using chat gpt for some time now in many different contexts I have some observations that I would like to share (unsolicited I know). My initial enthusiasm has worn down a bit but I am still excited about this tool (but to be honest probably not for brewing). Chat GPT is only as good...

If your looking to add a bit of malt character add Vienna or Munich malt instead of the crystal. Still not a pilsner but at least it'll be closer. Also when are you adding hops?

I'll chime in with a few pieces of advice. When you are first starting off on all grain brewing on new equipment, you should aim for correct volume or correct gravity but not both. It's too difficult to get both correct on your first brews with so many unknown variables. But aiming for gravity...

I think the process of your hopping will make a much bigger difference than the type of yeast you use. There may be subtle differences in the final flavor usig one "neutral yeast" over another, but to be honest, hop flavor is not going to significantly change if your process is good (or bad)...

Here's a conversation I had. It's not perfect but I found it interesting. Me: Can you give me a beer recipe in metric for 20l for 75%efficiency for a American amber ale? Chat GPT: Sure, here is a recipe for a 20-liter American Amber Ale with a 75% efficiency: Ingredients: 7.5 kg of 2-Row...

Have any of you toyed with that open AI chat GPT? Pretty amazing stuff. In my interactions with it I think it could replace most of the brewing software out there...though it's not perfect I suspect it will be only a matter of time (months) when it will be exponentially better. I had it create...

Hi y'all just realized that certain brands of English define biscuit quite differently... I often hear this word used in the beer industry either describing the tastes of beer as biscuit (or biscuity) or the name of a malt itself. I grew up in USA so biscuit to me is basically a baked roll...

I jumped into this hobby with both feet. My first beer I brewed was an all grain IPA from a recipe I created. I live in cz so I wanted all the ingredients to be sourced locally. So it was an IPA with Czech hops. It had a few small flaws but generally it was really good. I was instantly hooked...

Yes I believe so, I usually add a bit of sugar and make a sweet potato casserole... I used far less sugar than I usually do and it tasted just as sweet as I remembered. Of course this could be a bias on my part... Nevertheless it was fun!

This year I'm putting my brew "science" knowledge to work in my Thanksgiving preparation... I'm "mashing" my sweet potatoes... I don't mean smashing, I mean holding them at mash temperature (~65C) for 30 min before boiling. I guess sweet Potatoes have enough diastatic power to convert...

When someone asks you a question about brewing just to be polite.