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I did an all grain DIPA recipe and was shooting for 1.075 but only got 1.064. I didn't have any DME on hand so I just went with it. It's been in the carboy for 30 hours or so and the krausen has started up. My question is, what will the effect on the beer be? I'm assuming too bitter...

i put a folded fleece blanket on top and underneath and it significantly improved retaining heat. i don't think i lose anything in an hour and it's pretty simple

I've heard bad things about dry hopping for more than 5-7 days. Should the first dry hop be put in a hop bag so it can be removed before the second dry hop?

http://www.brewersfriend.com/mash/ This calculator has yet to fail me. I preheat my cooler MT with hottest water from the tap I can get and close the lid and let it sit while the strike water is heating up. Once I add the water and dough in, it has been right on. I've done my last 4...

I also put the whole pot into ice water in addition to the immersion chiller. I don't stir the whole chiller, but I use a spoon to try to whirlpool the wort. Although there isn't a lot of room like you said, but some movement is better than none.

I believe what you are talking about is a counter flow chiller. I use an immersion chiller just because it seems like running wort through a tube would be a PITA to keep clean. I'm not sure what you mean by stir the immersion chiller. You mean like whirlpool the wort while the chiller is in...

I brewed this blonde ale a while back and it turned out really well. I got the idea to do a blonde stout using this recipe, scaled down to 3 gallons. I settled on cold brewing about 2 cups of coffee and adding it to the bottling bucket. My question is if anyone thinks the dry hopping in the...

Guess it wasn't as odd as I thought :). Now that I've done it several times, it's pretty nice to have control. But being a noob was pretty overwhelming when the guy didn't seem like he wanted to help. Hopefully I like this new place. Thanks for all the perspectives!

I've been brewing now for about 8 months, and I've only gotten my ingredients from one place. It's closing soon so I have to branch out. It's a bummer because it was the only place that was decently close to me. Anyway, the place that I went to, they generally just pointed you in the...

Don't listen to him, learning from your mistakes and improving is the fun part! And I agree with whoever said don't throw out your wort/beer. Unless you taste it after fermentation and it's undrinkable, give it a chance with whatever means you can come up with.

When you have a dream that the keg setup you are using has a hand pump to pressurize the keg.

Do you need a separate picnic tap than your normal serving tap? i.e. can you pull the modified bottle filler out once you are done or is it jammed in there so well that it's stuck or you'll break something?

I pronounce it tr-uh-b precisely because I don't want people to think I'm trying to be a home brew know-it-all snob and say it "properly". I know how it's pronounced, but I know my own dialect as well. I don't see it as disrespectful. I see it as not want to appear to be trying too hard to...

I toss them in free and strain through a paint strainer or grain bag when pouring into the carboy

Cincinnati/Dayton area here. From Dayton Warped Wing is good and in Cincinnati my favorite is MadTree. I'm about to head over there before a Reds game tonight and see what they are serving at the moment :)

Hello again! I brewed this and bottled it last night. I used US-05 yeast and because I'm still getting the hang of fermentation temperature, I fermented at 61 degrees. I had two choices... wrapping the fermentation bucket in a blanket in my closet and the temp was pretty consistently 61, or...

New to the site, assumed that since it popped up at the bottom of another feed, it was something recent. No need to be an ass about it. It's also a reference to South Park. Kind of.

Yep, it popped up on the feed at the bottom. I'm new to this site and browsing. No reason to be an ass about it.

1) Start a brewery 2) Make all your beers like that 3) Use weird music idea as a marketing ploy 4) Profit

As soon as I saw "I've been brewing for a whole 2 days now lol" I thought...oh this should be good :)