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The only technique change from the 40 or so beers I did before that never had a problem was I started skipping secondary, and just leaving in the primary for a month, but I can't really believe that would cause this problem.

So over my last 5 batches, I've had this infection. Its got a medicinal smell/taste, 3 of them it overpowered the beer and was just terrible, 2 of them it was there but not as bad. I've ruled out yeast (used dry yeast from packet, wyeast propagated, white labs direct pitch from the tube, all...

Love Promash, but never used beersmith. Anyone try both and have comments on one or the other?

Bought some Harviestoun Ola Dubh aged in the 40 year whiskey barrels. Anyone ever try this stuff? I've had the stuffed aged in 8 or 12 year barrels or whatever the cheaper one is, and it was pretty good. Hoping it'll be twice as good for $17 a 12 oz bottle.

Hefes are the only beer I don't use a starter on. I intentionally underpitch because I love that banana ester, and underpitching brings it out.

For those of you that mash with a protein rest in the 122F-140F range, how long do you rest at this temp?

sweet, thanks. hope it seals hops better then the stupid ziplock handpump system.

How do you remove cold break when you use a counterflow chiller? It seems to me it works by running hot wort through the chiller, which runs against cold water, and into the fermenter. Or do you run it into another pot, whirlpool, and then run it into the fermentor. Or do you recirculate it...

Is a 15 gallon pot big enough for a 10 gallon (roughly 13 gal preboil) boil? Trying to plan my RIMS system and want to have the ability to do both 5 and 10 gallon batches.

Leines cheaper than busch light? I'm not talking about Leines origional, I'd rather have busch light. I mean their real beers. Creamy dark, red, oktoberfest, honeyweiss, 1888 bock, big butt dopplebock, classic amber, fireside nut brown...mmmm. Im not even sure they sell the origional leines...

Was Sam Adams ever on a hill? Never did like their beers. But I'm the same way with Leinenkugels, another macro microbrew type like that. It pretty much took me from enjoying beer for the social entertainment to enjoying beer because, its pretty damn good. Hardly ever drink it anymore, but...

Get a johnson controls digital temp controller for $70, a pump for $100, and you could probably build a rims tube with a 4500w 240v heater element run at 120v for $50 or so bucks. do the 5 or 10 gallon round cooler conversion for about $50 as well. I don't know if thats too much money, but its...

I'm using 240v.

Im thinking of getting a 15 gallon brewpot and installing two heater elements in it. Going to use it for mostly 5 gallon batches with the ability to do 10s if I want. One heater is going to be on all the time to keep the boil and the other is going to be on just to help bring to a boil. My...

Probably wasn't the PBR. I and a lot of people I knew could drink an 18 pack of the stuff in our early 20s and survive week in and week out. I'm sure 32 oz was more the straw that broke the back then the haystack.

I've done a few whiskey porters. With age the whiskey flavor seems to mellow somewhat compared to the malt, but the hops cut it a little bit at first and that seems to fade after about 2 months. I do go heavy on my whiskey when I make them tho, on purpose (was a whiskey fan before I became a...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/how-big-your-mash-tun-needs-123585/ get another 10 gallon round. should be able to do average strength 10 gallon batches with that and really strong 5 gallon batches.

Fav brewery is Lakefront Brewery - Riverwest stein (probably my favorite everyday beer), IPA, Fuel Cafe Also Like: Capital brewery - amber and pale ale Sprecher - black bavarian Furthermore - 3 foot deep Milwaukee Brewing Co. - Louies Demise Delafield Brewhaus - delafield amber Tyranena and Ale...

The 1 oz pack I bought came with 6 sticks, all varying in size. Maybe I'll back that off o 1/2 oz.

This is my first time using most of these spices. Im wondering if i should adjust any more or less. The recipe is: 6 lbs pale ale malt 1 lbs rye malt 1 lbs dark belgian candi sugar .75 lbs munich malt .5 lbs crystal 10 malt .38 chocolate malt 1 oz cinnamon sticks 1/2 oz licorice root...