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I dont believe you can just steep whole grains. You have get them cracked open to get their lovely goodness out. You can do this yourself with a rolling pin.

Blankets around your beer will help keep it 1-2 degrees warmer than nothing. Maybe more when fermentation is active. There are other options tho. You could splash out on a heat pad or belt. Put blankets on it with the heat pad and it will definitely stay warm. One other way to heat it up is...

More than an oz for bittering hops boiled for 90 minutes in a 2 gallon beer is a lot of bittering hops. Considering the style is a pilsner, that seems like a crazy amount of hops. Too much? I've yet to try a beer that actually had too many hops in it. The hops will fade tho, so if you dont...

This is a known beer fault. Fortunately, the fix is also known. Read the below thread from start to finish. By the time you are done, your fermentation will have started. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/fermentation-can-take-24-72-hrs-show-visible-signs-43635/

First off its a very thoughtful gift. But to go the next step and research it online by creating an account and posting a question on a forum is awesome. Plus, since you chose your forum name, in a way you are calling your husband a brew master. Best... wife... ever.... I'd go with a basic...

Well at least you didn't pour it down the drain. Imagine what a waste that would have been. All you have to now is find ways to get yourself invited over to "said friends" house often enough to drink your share. :)

If you are keen for a hop explosion and need a few extra IBUs, you could try making a hop tea and adding that to the fermenter as well as the dry hop. You would add bitterness, flavor and aroma by doing so.

I put jackets and fleece vests on my fermenters when its cold. Just a few weeks ago, my fermenter was wearing a fleece vest and two jackets. You could also try sleeping bags or other things like that. Those with a heat pad underneath in the insulated box would be pretty good. It would take...

Can't you brew outside and ferment indoors? With a little careful planning and the right tools, you could ensure no more mess to upset your SWMBO. If that is not possible, a insulated cupboard in conjunction with a heat belt or plate sounds like a dandy plan. I remember English winter...

I remember reading something that Revvy wrote. He said that big beer (like Pliny is) can easily take three weeks to ferment. Also, if its packing an 8% punch, it could take a while to carb up.

F250, can you share your recipe with us? I'm keen to brew a bitter.

Let me first say that I have never brewed cider before but plan to do so this summer. So I guess this is a question related to the OP. Is it possible to "cold crash" it then rack to another vessel?

You could still take the FG could you not? Unless it was so tasty you drank the entire 5 gallons already. :) OG can be estimated by the ingredients. You wont be 100% accurate, but it will give you a range to expect and work from.

Using an online calculator, that will work out to be about 18%. Hard cider alright!

That online tool should give you the OG and FG. I have been putting my recipes into hopville.com. It gives you the OG and FG.

Your FG was lower than you expected? I've only had the exact opposite problem. A lower FG means you have better than expected attenuation and as a result your beer will be a higher abv. I'm unsure if that is a good thing for you or not. I always taste my beer at various stages of the...

I was just watching something on Brewing TV last night on cider. They were saying that it is not uncommon for your FG for a cider to be 1.000 or even a few points lower. 0.996 for example.

Like a boss. :)

Thanks for the discussion guys. From what most of you are saying, it appears that there should be no reason to boil LME. This is in line with what my LHBS was saying. This is a good thing. I may start throwing the LME in at flameout to aid with mixing. I've been playing around with the tool...

Hi all, I am wondering about the reasons for boiling LME? Is it mainly sanitization concerns or are there other benefits of doing so? The guy at my LHBS advised me that boiling the extract is not necessary. Is he just trying to make it easier for me at the expense of potentially putting my...