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I ordered some rhizomes but they haven't come in to my LHBS yet, but here is the raised bed and trellis that I built for them. I put soil in it yesterday, so it's ready to go! It's only 12ft but I built it so I can raise it next year if I need to. I'm doing one each of Nugget, Cascade, and...

Thanks, I think this confirms what I was already thinking.

If I do a partial mash recipe as a 3 gallon partial boil (I don't have a bigger kettle), it seems it would be appropriate to use the late extract addition technique just like I would with a normal extract recipe. Am I right here? Many partial mash recipes that I see call for the extract at...

Right on, thanks for the info. One other thing to nervous beginners, I accidentally pitched the yeast at what many will say is too high a temperature, almost 80 degrees. But then I put the bucket in my fermentation fridge, which brought it down to 65 degrees in an hour or so. Anyway, I was...

Thanks, I'll try 3.5 gallons next time. I'm using the same 5 gallon SS pot that you are. I would love to see some of your partial mash recipes if you don't mind sharing, I would like to start doing PM batches before eventually moving to all grain.

Last night I cracked open the first bottle of my third batch of beer, an extract pale ale kit from Rebel Brewer in Nashville, TN. It had only been in bottles one week but was already pretty well carbed and tasted totally delicious. Another week or so and it will be excellent. I already have...

Appreciate the input everyone. And thanks dickproenneke for pointing this out about oz., didn't realize I'd made that mistake. Stupid math. BTW I love your user name, I'm a big fan of Alone in the Wilderness (assuming that's what you're referencing)! They show it about once every six...

Many of you are familiar with John Palmer's brewing book and its recipes. For my next brew I want to make a slightly higher alc. version of his APA (I want about 5.6 ABV). So, basically what I'm thinking is adding 1 lb. of light DME to the recipe. The DME would go in with the 3.3 lb. of...

Thanks guys. As for putting the chips in secondary, the kit instructions (notorious for being wrong, I know) said to put them in primary before pitching yeast, so that's what I did. I'll give them more time and see what happens. One other thing I noticed, I used big 1-liter swing tops to...

Hi, This is my first thread but I've been obsessively reading the forum for a few weeks now. I've had my first ever batch of beer in bottles for two weeks now, an extract IPA kit from True Brew, and I tried a few during the Super Bowl yesterday. I know many will say to leave it two more...

A related question: I recently bottled my first batch, an extract IPA kit. My batch came out to about 4.5 gallons, but I used the whole 5 oz. of corn priming sugar and two weeks in I think it's a tad overcarbonated (I used the carbing calculator above and see I should've used just under 4 oz)...

My first batch was a similar IPA kit that came with wood chips, I followed the instructions and put them in the primary after sanitizing (steamed them for about 5 mins), just before I pitched yeast. I cracked the first bottle of that batch yesterday and it came out great, very dry and I think I...

I want to try this but don't have a pot big enough to do a full boil. If I do a 3 gal boil and then top up to 5 gal in the fermenter, should I adjust hop schedule up or down? If so, how much?

A lot of people on this forum say they top up the water in their fermenter to 5.25 or 5.5 to compensate for trub loss. Are they compensating by adding extra LME/DME, or just watering down their beer?

Question: if you make a 5.5 gallon batch with ingredients for a 5 gallon batch, does that not mess up your OG? Or is it not enough of a difference to be a problem?

I just made a batch of oatmeal stout according to this recipe, with regular rolled oats that I toasted according to these directions. The reviews all sound positive so I'm hopeful it will be a good beer. I do wonder if I should've used dark DME instead of light...

This is my first time posting here, just wanted to say that I brewed this recipe yesterday and had almost the exact same experience as cottagebrews below! Ha, everything went great yesterday and I pitched the yeast (Wyeast Irish Ale) about 4pm. I used a 6.5 gal carboy so didn't think I'd need...