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Wow, I'm late to the party on this one. I was a semi-regular watcher of BTV, and really enjoyed Dawson's deadpan delivery and sense of humor. He and Jake will be missed, but at least we can enjoy their blogging exploits. I appreciate that Chip gave his 2 cents here at HBT. I also noticed the...

If you go BIAB, make sure to do your research. My LHBS owner has heard some horror stories about efficiency with that method. But obviously many here have had success with it. Partial mash is great because you get almost all of the flexibility of doing all-grain, yet can ease yourself into...

If you use snow in your sink to cool your flask, make sure to add some water so it's more like ice water. I used all snow once when trying to cool my wort, and my temps barely dropped... then realized that snow is a good insulator... that's why Eskimos can stay all nice and toasty in their...

I recently graduated myself. I did a partial mash kit from Midwest which included about 4 lbs of grain to be mashed inside my pot using a muslin bag. My next batch, I used a 5 gal cooler with about 7lbs of grain. How do you plan to mash? The midwest kit was a nice introduction. Sparging was...

Another vote for "don't fear the foam". Same goes when you're transferring to your secondary (if applicable) or bottling or kegging...

Good point. I'll keep that in mind. I assume that the fermentation takes a similar amount of time, assuming an equal ratio of yeast to a typical 5 gallon? Maybe for a pale ale with us05, let it go for 2 weeks to be safe?

(Ugh. Sausage fingers and iPhones don't mix) What I was saying is headspace in primaries is ok, headspace in secondaries is bad.

Thanks slowbie. My understanding is a lot of headspace

Thoughts on using 6.5 gallon buckets to primary ferment a 2 gallon batch? I want to do some smash trials without buying smaller fermenters. I don't plan to secondary, so I'm hoping that the yeast will produce enough co2 so that the headspace isn't an issue.

Do you make your own beer recipes in the game? Or are there built-in recipes, or both? It may be good to have some built in recipes for someone who plays, likes beer, but hasn't started homebrewing (yet) and has no idea how to create a recipe. I find myself playing with my iBrewmaster like...

I was just reading about The Alchemist's Heady Topper DIPA (#1 on Beer Advocate) and how that's all they brew because it's so popular. They had other brews, but now all they're producing is Heady Topper and are at capacity. Pretty fascinating. Seems like they found their Brewprint...

Greetings fellow homebrewers! I'm still a pretty new homebrewer, with 7 batches under my belt, including two partial mashes. I've gotten to the point where I want to develop my own recipes. The SMaSH concept seems like a logical starting point. Here's my plan: Goals: -Develop a good...

Cool idea. I'd try it out. I like the "brewprint" name, but not necesarily the idea of saving a princess or whatever. I'd like it to be more realistic than fairy-tale, so that I can live out my real-life dreams in a video game. :rockin: More Sims-like instead of Farmville, or whatever.

To keep with the theme... -Keep a spray bottle of starsan solution handy on brew day. -Also keep a spray bottle of water handy (to knock down the foam and prevent boil overs at the beginning of the boil) -Start collecting brown bottles (non twist off). Rinse with dawn after emptying and dry...

I'm no expert myself, but ed5488's advice looks solid. Just a hunch, but I think the higher alpha acid hop, the Pilgrim, would be the bittering hop and added at 60 min. I've never used oak, but I've seen NB's whiskey porter recipe kit that has a step where you soak the oak chips in whiskey...

If you want to brew inside on your stove, 8 gallon may be the biggest you want to go. I think I've seen the guys from Northern Brewer use an 8 gallon kettle in their brew-in-a-bag video. My standard 5 gallon kettle still seems huge on the stove. Most (all?) Extract kit instructions assume...

Welcome! Start saving bottles! Yes, darker the better, so brown is good. For a 5 gallon batch, you'll need at least 52-12 oz bottles, 28-22 oz or 36 17oz grolsch-style bottles. I wish I did this ahead of time, especially saving grolsch bottles. After emptying my beer in a glass, I always...

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