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So an old friend of our family gave me some free stuff. 8 cases of cleaned bottles, glasses for a wide range of beer types and a unknown aged extract kit. Brewers Best India Black Ale. I already know the answer but I will ask anyway.... Should i use it? (No dummy). 3 of the 4 hop packs...

Good advice and I really hadn't thought about the whirlpool calc. I had been seeing some recipes posted showing ibus from flameout additions and some not (zeroed out). Started wondering - is there a general acceptance on how hop additions are viewed late. The stuff I have reviewed suggested...

Is there a living link left? This one doesn't work and maybe as you suggest was taken down. I only ask because a poster later in this thread said it worked or was able to view it

Hey jrcrilly or others....Any other comments on this (IBU)? I will be trying this next, last of my 3 extract kits left. My beer smith says 56 and I looked up sculpin and it is in the 70 range and many of the sculpin clones are in the 70+ I understand this is a good brew as is. I figure...

The center piece of the airlock is perfect size for 1/2"ID tubing. You can attach the hose there instead of removing airlock and sticking tube in the o-ring of my NB bucket lid. The reason I tried to do this was because I saw and read a few having experience with this method. I will now be...

Saw prices of 2.50 to 2.99 and the online place I used was 3.99. That makes a difference when, like you say, running a lot of hops across an ipa!

Thanks for the ideas. I have read a few folks skipping the traditional airlock and just pure blowoff. Finding each part of my home brewery takes s different size tube. Wish there was a universal system. I have found I was raped on citra hop price per ounce from one online store so I will...

I am new brewer and do 5-gal batches with turkey frier. Picked up the economy version 3/8 copper wort chiller for 39.99. Still shows same price. It has worked good and cools quick all the way down to 68-69 with my water. My only complaint is the length of the flexible tubing inlet and...

Well I have my second batch in (slobber from NB). Did full boil and finally got Beersmith to help me after some tinkering. Anyway...after my first batch (bav hefe from NB) last weekend, I needed a blow off tube on Monday. Got my tubing sanitized and attached- heard a crack. The airlock...

Could the issue be that I developed an extract recipe based on 5 gal batch with online free software then obtained BS and setting up my equipment profile isn't jiving with the recipe quantities in terms of all the brewing output (IBU, OG, spm). So basically I need to get my equipment finalized...

Got that clear porter. That is basically the procedure I followed on my first batch. Hit OG spot on. It was a kit recipe. Now I have BS and tinkering a few recipes of my own. It seems that BS doesn't take that approach. when you tell it your batch size and then it calculating losses in...

Hi all Looking for input as I start setting up Beersmith to play with extract recipes as I enter home brewing for honing my skills in prep to move to all grain in a half year. In terms of boil volume and setting up my equipment profile. Doing a 5 gallon full boil batch of extract brew...

Hey passedpawn. Noticed Clearwater on your account. We frequent pass-a-grille every now and then.

NB Bavarian hefe kit. It comes with 6lb lme wheat and 1lb dme wheat. Did a full boil in 30qt pot and worked great. The recipe is 1/2 liquid malt for 45 min then add remaining lme and the full for remaining 15. Yes- Used the hefe yeast. While I didn't do it- has anyone accidentally dumped...

My hope is just a short extract learning session and giving it a shot. My worries at the moment are efficiency of grain to hit my margin. So I will be reading up more on that. I need to get my techniques and space more organized so it goes smoother but that just comes with time and brew...

Glad to have that monkey off my chest. First- the day started off great as our three kids (one who is teething) slept in till 830am!! Awwyeah. Then it got worse- some stomach bug hit our oldest and then the 3 year old woke up from her nap and got it spiking around 103F. I could have pooled...

Brewers- I did a beer exchange with a buddy who works in Wisconsin. Got 48 unique craft brews from the WI state. My top two as of now are ale asylum bedlam and the Lake Louie Warped Speed Scotch Ale. I can find a few clones and ideas for the Bedlam beer but not the Scotch ale. I think a...

I visited two local stores. I won't get into names as these were my first two, ever. The first one I visited was out of a farm store that I do recall hearing about in the past but it is across town. Nothing special- prices seemed okay but definately not hardcore but they do grind the grain...

I purchased 3! Thanks for all the information fellas. Some good advice- but what I am hearing between the lines to to brew and brew often....

Thanks for the info. I have read a few threads indicating different beers age differently. Is there a typical "horseshoes and hand grenades" for how long home brews will last or the "enjoy by date"? Many craft beers I get locally have the best by date. We have held on to some sweet wines...