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Recently my girlfriend got me one month in a brew club, and my favorite of the beers received was Maritime Pacifics Decompression Ale. It is an American strong ale, I am new to brewing so don't really know where to start. Any hints or tips would be great, even a standard base for an American...

Tastes great! I will try a different hop next time, not sure what though

I popped one of these open yesterday, and to my surprise its the best beer I've brewed yet! I will be doing this recipe again soon without any alterations.... besides maybe some dry hopping with cascade and pebbles. Try this recipe out! I wonder if it would be this good without the fruity...

I like biab. Not much equipment needed, makes great beer every time. I just use 5 gal paint straining bags for grain n hops in a turkey frying pot and I split 5 gallon recipes into 2 mr beer fermentors (or I use brew builder to convert to 2.25 gal). The paint straining bags are about 5$ and can...

Can't smackpacks explode?

Actually this is very helpful because I didn't understand that it would stress the yeast. I have only been brewing for a bit over a year and haven't done enough reading on it I suppose. Next time I brew I will be sure to make a starter now that I understand why. I am looking forward to see how...

Not to say I don't trust what I ve been told... I think I'm going to order a few extra packets of safale to keep around for the time I'm wrong.

Hey, the trub is to the airlock, two fingers of it after 12 hours now, couldn't ask for much more. If you ask me!

I came downstairs an hour and a half after smacking the pack and it was ready to explode!!! So I poked it with a knife and started brewing. Since it got so inflated so fast I just figured id try and see if I could simply split the wyeast. I pitched the yeast around 130 this afternoon, and now...

Just smacked my pack! While getting my brew stuff ready I realized I have some safale 05 sitting around. I am going to brew one with wyeast and one w safale. I plan on brewing up all the ingredients in 3 gallons of water, splitting them into 2 fermentors and topping them both off with water...

I think I will do this, thanks! Next time I will double check I'm ordering whitelabs... must be the w that threw me off.

I've never actually made a starter before, usually I use whitelabs or dry yeast though, but when I use either I just use half of the contents. Is the wyeast that different or will it work the same?

So I brew 2.25 gallon batches via brew in a bag (BIAB) and ferment in my mr beer fermenters. When I get premade kits for 5 gallons I just split the grains or extract and hops into 2. My last order included a wyeast smack pack, my question is can I split the contents of the smack pack into two...

I want to make some mead and need some bottles!

Would using .5oz@ 60 cascade, .25@ 30, and dryhopping w the last .25 work better? I'm not a huge hophead.. Mashing out now! Plz help

Oops, looks like I have safbrew 33, not 05.

Yea I have college setting brewing capabilities.

It is a 2.25 gallon recipe

In bottles.

I will be trying a SMaSH (single malt and single hop) beer tomorrow with what I have left from a recipe I did a few weeks ago, I am afraid to let the crushed grains get too old. It is for a 2.25 gallon recipe: 5 lbs 2 row @ 150 for 60 .5 oz cascade @60 .25 oz cascade @30 .25 oz cascade @15...