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This is super interesting! A question though: in (for example) Beersmith, a 0 min edition renders nothing on the IBU scale. If youre a noob like me, how do you count the ibus to get to an ipa for example? Do you add up to 60i bus on 60 minutes plus the 0 minutes addition, or do you add up to...

hi! I have half a bag of citra that I'm a little worried about the quality of... I bought it in january and it spent its first month on the balcony (and the swedish winter wasnt as cold as you might think - about refrigerator temps). When I realized that was stupid, I moved them to the...

You dont say anything about volumes, could it be that you boiled off less than expected? That happened to me one of the first times...

Oops, is using aluminum bad? Im pretty sure my kettle is aluminium... :/

Bump! Anyone see something off, or is it just perfect? :) Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Hello! Im trying to clean out my closet and free up some space for new ingredients, so I wanted to try to brew something with only the stuff I have. I came up with this recipe, I want a blonde lager-like (allthough I can't control my ferm temp so I'll ferment it like an ale), summery...

hello! First of all, I know literally nothing about science etc so... sorry if I'm asking stupid/weird questions. I've bee thinking about the thing with adding gelatin to your wort for clearing it. What exactly is it that makes it work? Is it something on a molecular level or something that...

Hey guys! (I posted this in the wrong place a couple of weeks ago, sorry for that. But I wanted it in my dropdown so I'm adding it here, hope it's ok) I've just been brewing since january, and this is just the third batch I ever made, but it just turned out so damn good I'm shocked, and I...

I love drinking mate, and have thought about adding it in a beer also, maybe subbing some of the hops. But keep in mind that mate contains caffeine, i feel more from a mate than a cup of coffee. Might be nice with an "energy beer" though :) keep me posted about how this turns out!

Just used this yeast, got really satisfied, but now im getting a little worried. My batch went from 1.064 to 1.005, in three weeks, and it stayed there for four days. Im not sitting on a case of bottle bombs, am i?

hmm.. that oak bottle gotta be an april fools joke though?

Hey guys! I've just been brewing for a few months, and this is just the third batch I ever made, but it just turned out so damn good I'm chocked, and I wanted to share it with someone! :tank: So I found these slovenian hops that I'd never heard of, Celeia & Aurora, and that where really...

gonna try my hands at a clone of Omnipollos Leon. Its like a belgian ale, but hopped with simcoe and amarillo. The original is fermented with champagne yeast, but im a little noob and nervous about that, so I'm thinking of splitting the batch and ferment half of it with belgian ale yeast instead.

I had a saison fermenting in my wardrobe, around 23C (73F) and it turned out perfectly. Dont know if it would have been even better with higher temps though, but I passed my estimated fg (should have been 1.014 according to beersmith, got down to 1.010). Fermented with WLP566.

I just read that Brooklyn breweries has used "spruce fronds" in a beer that they call a "swedish strong ale" (http://brooklynbrewery.com/brooklyn-beers/brewmasters-reserve/hammarby). Anyone have any experience with that?

i tried my first brew ever after 8 days. I might have been over excited, but it was really good, and i really didnt think it could be better than what it was. Left it a couple of days more before i put the bottles to cool on the balcony. Tried the last one of them now, a month later and didnt...

I think I found the problem, it was the mash temp. I brewed yesterday, and tried another thermometer, and it showed around 7-8 degrees C higher, and boiling wort was only 92 degrees C hot with the old one (should be 100C). That would mean that I actually mashed in at 74+7 = 81 C (177F), and then...

Uhm, I dont think so. I half the packet about a week earlier, but kept it wrapped in aluminium foil in the fridge until a couple of hours before brewing, so it should be ok, right? Yeah, I shaked the bucket pretty wildly, for around a minute, but I dont know, maybe it wasnt enough? Is there...

thanks for the reply! The temp in there is 22 C, 71.6F, and has worked perfectly with the other beers, another 5 liter is fermenting in there right now. I have to check mr malty, because I tried brewersfriend a couple of hours ago, and it said that I was 9 billion cells short (see screen shot...

Hi! I've made some small 5 liter (1.3 gal) batches, and all have been going pretty smooth so far. But I decided to upgrade a little to 10 liters recently. For the 5 liters I used half a packet of US-05, but when I was going to pitch my 10 l batch, i read on the label that a packet 11.5g is...