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Here's my situation : I've put my carboys in a bucket of water, in order to achieve acceptable fermentation temperatures and to keep temperature a little more stable over time. I mostly achieved to keep temperature where I wanted during the first 14 and 10 days, respectively. But then winter...

Hi! It's the time of the month where I'm working on my purchase of ingredients. I want to try Safbrew Abbaye AND make a Belgian IPA of some sorts. I don't know if any of you ever tried a Gouden Carolus Hopsinjoor - that's the kind of beer I want to brew. I'm not brewing a clone by the way, I...

My mom asking my GF if what I do is any good... Which is odd, since like... Well most of the brewers I guess, I tend to be way more severe in judging my beers than everybody else.

From my understanding, Quads are mostly Dubbels on Roids. I'm wondering about the difference between Singel and Henkel. And even then, you have stuff like Chimay Dorée who doesn't really qualify as an Henkel, but whose purpose is basically the same. Mostly a Patersbier as far as I'm...

Thanks all ! I just never worked with US5 before, so I didn't know how it would react.

I finally brewed, bottled and tasted those beers. The Mild is absolutely awesome. Totally undershot OG (ended up at 1.031), fermented at mostly between 66 and 68 for 13 days. Ended up at 1.010. Yep, 2.7 ABV. Bottling was messy and I might have screwed a few bottles. I drank of those messy...

Simple answer : what was your OG ? Your FG might never get to your target. If you're expecting, say, 1.009 and your at 1.012, fermentation might be completely over. Since 2 weeks, I might add. By my personal experience... 3 weeks later, 1.050 is usually done and cleaned up, ready for bottling...

Hi. Last sunday (October 12) I brewed what was supposed to be a Blonde Ale. Actually, it's a 2-Row/Sterling Smash. It turned out I overshooted gravity by quite a bit, and ended up with an OG of 1.054, after adding quite a bit of water during the boil (that is, 250 ml, which is quite a bit for a...

I finally brewed two with it. 1.053 to 1.001 1.048 to 1.003 I had no unfermentable whatsoever. So yeah, the manufacturer itself (and thus BS) really appears to have underrated attenuation.

If my inexperienced self may help... I brewed a beer (English IPA) with the exact same OG. At first, I pitched the yeast way too cold (power shortage, couldn't see a damn thing) and I estimate the wort was at 58F. I had already set up a swamp cooler. I let it rise to 61/62 the day after, and I...

Leftovers... Yeah, fair enough :)

Hum... How did the Nottingham worked, flavour-wise? From what I've read about it, this is one VERY dry yeast, with a subdued, but notable, English flavour profile.

humm... Why the Carapils?

Another update : I'm actually suprised at how good it was, considering it was my 2nd brew and that my mashing was something of a catastrophe that saw a loss of 18 degrees all in all, forcing me to add some boiling water at the middle of the process and conducting a mash-out that was an hybrid of...

Yeah, it's a one gallon batch. I did add some Roasted Barley (not much really, 3 %) in my project recipe. Also took out the Caramunich and took out a bit of Special B, without completely getting rid of it.

Thanks! Never remotely thought about Brown Malt, and that could indeed work. Actually, the bittering addition is 0.05 oz, which, with Horizon hops, amounts to +-12 IBU, that is, roughly half of the bittering charge, the other half being the 0.20 oz of EKG/Bramling Cross at 20 mins. I...

Hi! Well... like some of you, I'm planning for the next brew, and this time, I want to go the route of the Belgian Stout. Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Safale Abbaye Yeast OR WLP550 Original Gravity: 1.068 Final Gravity: 1.011 with WLP550 - 1.012 with Safale Abaye (no data in Beersmith...

By volume, you mean water or density? EDIT : Nevermind -- I googled and fell on that thread : https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/pre-boil-gravity-ok-but-low-og-485431/ Taking the sample from the fermenter, instead of from the kettle might have tweaked things just a bit. Plus, I ended up with...

Okay... That was a Wednesday brew. I was brewing a Mild. Using Beersmith, I came up with a bill grain that sortof made sense, considering the style, and that gave me an target OG of 1.036. Using a Brewhouse Efficiency of 72%, with my regular settings, I ended up with a pre-boil gravity of...