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My 5 gallon batch has been in the fermenter a little over a week. Still a little activity going on. I'm usually good for leaving my beers in the fermenter for a good 2 - 3 weeks. Not sure if I'm going to dry hop in primary or move to secondary yet.

I can see what you mean by this. But this is the way many "green brewers" get into experimenting with recipes and building their own. So to this I say: to each their own. That's the beauty of this addiction.

I played around on Brewers Friend and found that by adding 1# of corn sugar will only drop the IBU's by 10. If I add an extra 1/2 oz of hops at 20 mins remaining, they make up for this loss. With that being said, I am going to go back and put in 1/2# of light DME and equivalent corn sugar...

Awesome, thanks. I've heard of both, but never messed with either. I'll at around in Brewer's Friend and see how I like it. Thanks for everyone's input!

...from reading all of the posts related to upping the ABV of an extract beer. I've read to add corn sugar, table sugar, malt extract, etc. but that i should also modify the bittering hops as well to keep everything in balance IF I add "too much." I'm looking to add 1# of corn sugar (or...

Never done this. . . Is it as easy as you make it sound?

Hopefully sooner, I'd like to have the room in my kegerator sooner than that!

I dry hopped my chocolate milk stout with 5oz of crushed Sumatra blend beans for 2 days before kegging it a week ago. Poured my first pint of it last night, and it was very coffee forward. I enjoyed it, but I'm a huge fan of coffee. This is also my first shot at brewing with coffee. So my...

Good explanation, thanks. I'm adding some corn sugar to up the abv some, so I'm going to go with us-05 to get full attenuation. I may use 04 when not wanting to dry out as in a stout.

I meant to say why is that lol

What is that?

Have you brewed NB's dust clone extract kit? If so, what did your ABV end up at?

Cool, thanks! I'm always spooked about under pitching with dry yeast. But I've also read where there are double the number of viable cells in a dry packet as there are in a tube or pack of liquid yeast (pre starter) . Any truth to that?

Yeah, 5 gallon. Fine with one? Or two? I figured with how clean this yeast ferments, it wouldn't hurt to use both.

Brewing a zombie dust clone and OG is 1.065. Should I use one packet or 2 packets of rehydrate us-05?

I've got this kit showing up in the mail tomorrow (barring the oncoming storm doesn't hold it up). Let me know how it turns 's out! . Thanks!

I have this same brew kegged and carbing up, I added 5 oz of crushed Sumatra blend beans a couple days before kegging. Can't wait to try it!

I'm guessing this matters less with a super hoppy pale ale as compared to a stout, which you kinda want the sweetness.

When you say dried it out, you mean as in taste?

Thanks for everyone's input!