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I'm attempting my first partial mash tomorrow. I am mashing 4.75 pounds of grain. I have calculated 1.5 gal of mash water and 2.5 gal of sparge water. I am going to record water loss due to grain for future brews. My main question is once I get my total wort volume of roughly 3 gal can I add 3.5...

I have been looking at recipes all over. I am wondering if I should be using the dark LME or should I just use light LME? Also the grain bill I would like some feedback on. I have not tried to make many recipes except for a DIPA and Xmas ale so any feedback is greatly appreciated. Got Milk...

I'll probably take a gravity reading Monday and see what's up

ok sounds good. I'll leave it alone

I am brewing a belgian dubbel from NB. I used wyeast 1214 and made a yeast starter. I pitched it around 1130 pm on monday and at 730 a.m. the next day it was going nuts. There was active fermentation all day yesterday. Today it has slowed down considerably. The temp is at 68. Their website says...

So I dry hopped for 7 days tomorrow and I will transfer to secondary and dry hop again for 5-7 days. My problem is I ordered some custom bottle caps that won't be ready for 2 weeks. Is it ok to take out the hops tomorrow and let the beer sit a week before doing second dry hop? I assume it is ok...

Dry hopped yesterday. Gravity was 1.015. Tasted great

Can I let this sit in primary for 3 months?

I just made some yesterday! Already fermenting. Can't wait. I'm going to make another batch this weekend. Fall/winter 2013!!

I brewed a dipa last week, 1.085 og. My beer fermented like crazy. It's at 65 degrees now at day 9. This is my first high gravity brew and I have about a 1.5" layer of trub on bottom of carboy and about. 25" to. 5" on top. Should I rack this to secondary or is it ok? I planned on doing a two...

I'm in!!!

Here is the recipe after I revised it. I tried doing a hop stand that was mentioned in BYO. The 1 min additions and 5m extract additions were essentially flameout. I left my crystal at the store and used light DME instead of extra light because they were out. I did make a starter! It was my...

That's what I'm going with! :D

I added the liquid extract at beginning of boil. The DME and Corn sugar was added at flameout. The recipe was for 5.25 gal and I'm right at that

Ah I see. Yeah I usually do primary in bucket and can get a sample easy with my dropper. In a carboy my dropper isn't long enough so I just siphoned a tad but I don't think I got the hose in very far which could explain it. If it is that low is there any explanation with that much extract and...

I think it was at 81 degrees. Whst does stratified mean. It's fermenting like a mofo.

Well I didn't use crystal. Left it at store haha. With my yeast stater it looks like this less than 8 hours later. I messed up OG somehow bc it was way lower.

I just made a IIPA, recipe is below. My target OG was 1.084. I read 1.060 on my hydrometer. With 10.5lb+ of extract and sugar is this even possible. Top of was 5.25 gallons. I was reading some other boards about not mixing up enough with solids settling ect. I put it in 6.5gal carboy for primary...

Finallizing a IIPA recipe. I like the steeping hops idea and want to try it. Hows this recipe look? Whats a typical fermentation schedule for a IIPA. I was thinking 3 in primary. Cold crash or use gelatin. Transfer and dry hop for 5 days before bottling. Thoughts? Someone mentioned to me that...

Someone mentioned to me that my FG will be lower than what my beer tools pro program says. It doesn't seem to account for lower gravity using honey, corn sugar ect. I don't know why I skipped the 60 min addition. Just messing around with numbers and getting thoughts from others. This is my first...