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I will leave the amounts and type of hops to you...but what works really well for me is to do two dry hop charges. One at say 48 hours into fermentation or after the most active part but before it stops/slows too much. Then add the second charge 3 days before cold crash. A few pics for...

Disassemble it or don't....at some point I imagine you'll need to...some people are just more paranoid than others.

I hope I didn't come off like an ass...I usually do but I don't mean to. This forum is, to me, one of the places where you need to be detailed with your answers because there is so much misinformation or altogether bad information being passed around...to a novice brewer who may not have known...

This may be the worst thing I have ever heard. I'm sorry, I have backed out of this thread several times in attempt to "bite my tongue" so to speak...but there is much more to making a good NEIPA than "Just a lot of hops"...and let me tell you...anyone who ads flour to their beer, doesn't have...

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Welcome to HBT and home brewing. Most people start out with the basic beginner kits from either Northern Brewer or Midwest Supplies. Typically, most people start out brewing extract kits and decide whether or not they want to go all-grain from there. Whatever you decide, it will be a lot of...

It's pretty much what gets me through the day. Luckily, within my little cube area, I have a number of homebrewers who love to take a pause and talk brewing and beer. HBT is usually the first thing I check after my email...this post is my first keyboard strokes at work.

I'm looking forward to trying it. Regardless of the normal swill they put out, we cannot deny that they have a hell of a brewing process and I am interested to see how that kind of control can translate into a, dare I say, craft beer.

Kind of strange you had such low attenuation, maybe keep an eye on your mash temps next time :confused: BUT my last batch I used 1450 and it finished at 1.022 and I think it was my best version yet...this beer does well with some body.

I wonder if it is the corn sugar at bottling. I know when I bottled and I used corn sugar, it always gave me an off flavor that I couldn't place but could be perceived as "thin".

I think with the kettle size you are limited to smaller batches. You could produce moderate gravity beers, like normal, with a 5 gallon cooler and an 8-10 gallon kettle. The other option is to add DME or LME to get your 2.5 to 3 gallons of wort up to a high gravity and then top up to 5 gallons...

Why? 1.024 is a perfect FG for this beer.

To add to the great advice already in this thread...don't be freaked out, and subsequently make yet another "no airlock activity..." post....If you've pitched your yeast at 70 degrees or less, it WILL work...I have used yeast that was 2 years out of date and it fermented my beer. Brew on!

I love that I can always count on you to give me the nitty-gritty details. The repressed geek in me love you for it. :mug:

From what I understand, the main function of boil-off is kettle diameter...whether you do a simmer or a balls-out boil..you will still boil off essentially the same.

Could be a number of things....common causes are the use of dish soap like detergents on your brew gear/glassware.

or just use one of the many calculators out there to determine how much brewing liquor you'll need. I recommend https://pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc/#Advanced

The few times I brewed it, I used S04...it was delicious but I prefer Denny's 50.

Are you pouring out the entire contents of the bottle into your glass? If so, the yeast you are tasting is exactly that....the yeast that settles at the bottom of your bottle when you bottle condition. You need to pour relatively gently and leave about an 8th of an inch of beer on top of the...

You cannot measure FG-accurately-with a refractometer, you need a hydrometer. However, there are calculators out there that adjust refrac. readings to account for the presence of alcohol...however IMO the only way to kow for sure is a hydrometer.