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I have not gotten any gushers yet. I have tries 2beers from each batch.. I just worry that maybe that's not a big enough sample

Yes, I have read already about keeping the beer cold. Any suggestions on how long and how cold? Thanks Alex

Hey everybody, I am getting married in a few months and since we don't like champagne, we decided to hand out homebrew for the toasts. I am brewing about 4-5 batches and so far I have3 done. My only problem is gushers. So far none of my batches i sampled had gushers, but I have this fear of...

Any thoughts?

I did not add any other simple sugars.. And taking the temp at around 68. Any other ideas?

Hey all, It's been about 7 days and I moved my batch into another vessel for the second fermentation. The software in using say that the Fg should be 1.013, the problem It's already down to 1.000 (and may be still dropping) I would have thought I would of needed at least 2 weeks to get to...

Thanks everybody, I wil take another look at using zythos as my buttering hop. Also, yes I am steeling specialty grains , not boiling them (not sure why the program wrote it like that)

Hey everybody, these is the new batch i want to make. any thoughts? i want a easy drinking fruity Pale Ale for hot summer days. Thanks, Style: American Pale Ale OG: 1.050 Type: Extract FG: 1.013 Rating: 0.0 ABV: 4.85 % Calories: 164 IBU's: 41.57 Efficiency: 70 % Boil Size: 3.00...

Great , thanks for all the advice

Hey everybody, I have been using these instructions (my local brew store) as my brew bible. it came with a beer starter kit i bought from them and have been using it for a few batchs now, but as i am reading on the forum i am starting to think these are outdated. Can anybody please confirm...

Got it, Thanks so much for all the advice! I will be much more careful in the future

Thanks, I think I am just going to try and boil my 5gl to start with... That should elongate most of these "issues".. Is that what most people do? I guess I'm just getting stuck to using the directions that came from the beer shop (which say 3gl boil, then add the rest after) It also say it...

hmm ok, sounds like the higher temp advice was just way off...might abandon this batch. - This is interesting..so if i should be fermenting at mid 60's my room temp should be low 60's?

Thanks for all the advice! I will be paying much closer attention to my temp. Unfortunately, I have already started another pale ale. I want something with a lot of citrus and grapefruit flavors. The guy at my beer store suggested that I dry hop and to ferment at a higher temp (70s) to get...

Thanks Step, This is my second batch, and i am just now reading/realizing how important things like ferm temp, etc are so i have not been super careful. It was ferm at room temp, so i would say about 70. But there have been couple super hot days where the house heated up (75-78 maybe). It was...

Hey everybody, I know this topic has been covered on the forum, but i just want to clear one thing up. I have a pale ale, bottled for about 3 weeks and it has a slight alcohol aftertaste. After doing some research on the forum i know that can be because it has not had enough time to mellow...

Thanks for the responses. i will look into just getting some software, but i wanted to make sure i understood the ideas behind the calcs. billl - You mention that the utilization calcs and IBUs are not related, but how can that be? IBU = AAU x U x 75 / Vrecipe according to that formula i...

Hey Everybdoy, I am having a hard time understanding this concept. I am making a 5gl batch with 6lb of liquid extract and am trying to figure out my IBUs. According to this site: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter5-5.html "The recipe volume is 5 gallons. The gravity is figured...

any thoughts? Thanks

Thanks for the responses. I redid my calcs and i was dividing by 3 (the boil) and not by 5 (the total batch). Opps. This brought up another question. When calculating the IBUs i need to test the gravity of the boil (in this case it would be 1.080) in order to find out what the utilization...