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I'll be racking a leavenworth eightmile alt into the secondary today and making a starter for tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'm brewing a Tripel IPA.

Mosaic: Good substitute for amarillo, cascade, simcoe or any other grapefruit citrusy hop EKG: I would use this for all stouts, porters or english ales. Could also be used in american ales German Hallertau Tradition: This would keep me covered as far as most german ales that I brew

if the brewersfriend calculator is telling me that I will get a FG of about 1.018, do you guys think I could/will acheive a lower abv due to using the corn sugar? I don't believe that brewersfriend accounts for the fermentability of the grains/ingredients.

Alright, here's the final recipe, I think I'm done making changes. I added 1/8 ounce of coriander to the recipe. I think it will help balance out and give some complexity to the bitterness of the hops. I also scrapped the carapils and I'm adding a full 2lbs of corn sugar. Brew Method: Partial...

Well I just ordered wlp500 (it had a lower temp range of 65-72 vs 68-78 for wlp550), and I also ordered 2oz of mosaic hops from rebelbrewer (they had the cheapest shipping for a small order like this). Hopefully it gets here by Saturday so that I can brew this weekend. I had received the grains...

Thanks for the feedback. I think I am going to swap out the late addittion chinook hops, replace them with mosaic, and then do a dry hop with an ounce of each pellet chinook and mosaic. I'll save the chinook leaf hops for a pale ale dry hop this spring. One other concern of mine was the yeast...

Here is the updated recipe. I'm thinking about bringing down the IBUs from what I put in the original recipe. Also, from what I'm reading online, it seems like a lot of people have either a love or hate relationship with Chinook hops. This made me a little nervous about using so much of them in...

They're homebrewers as well, but not as serious about it as I am. I would stick with 3 gallon boils on the stove and a partial mash method before I invest in a burner and wort chiller in order to do 5 gallon boils. I feel that getting better temp control first would initially make your beer...

Do you already have a fridge for temp control during fermentation? I'd get one myself, but my roommates wouldn't like me running up the electricity bill just to brew beer.

Also try using a hop bag (if you aren't already) rather than dumping them in the boil, and use a secondary. The clearest beer I've made I believe got clear because I left it in the secondary for longer that I usually would, and also I let it stay in the bottle longer than I usually would. For...

I just ordered the ingredients for a partial mash version scaled down to 5 gallons. I needed a good spring time beer while I wait for my Tripel to condition. I changed up the hop schedule a bit just to make it simpler and also I used carafa III instead of II. I remember in the podcast, they said...

I'd still consider myself a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm looking for anyone's thoughts or seal of approval on a Tripel IPA recipe I put together myself. I had Piraat a few times and loved it, so that's what inspired me to brew a Tripel IPA. This beer isn't a clone though...

The main reasons to use a secondary from what I understand is for clarity and to reduce any off flavor that could be created from leaving the beer on top of yeast for so long. Personally use a secondary for every beer except for belgian whites. The main reason I do it is just for clarity and...

Personally, I would still go with a half pound. I used to order from Northernbrewer, but I stopped because they only shipped whole pounds, then I started using midwest supplies, but they only do half pounds. My last recipe and from now on, I plan on ordering from austin homebrew supply which...

I'd skip the lemon, and add sweet orange peel if you really want it to be more like blue moon which I feel like is more of an orange flavor than lemon. Maybe even cut the coriander back to .5oz or less. That said, this looks more like a hybrid wheat beer anyway. Doesn't seem like a lot of...

I'm a new brewer and I also like brewer's friend. It is a nice balance between simplicity and having flexible features for entering recipes. I haven't made the commitment to it yet and got the "paid" version but I'm seriously considering it and may make the purchase soon. Are there any other...

I just ordered supplies and I will be brewing the recipe below next week. It's a partial mash recipe. If you wanted to make it more hoegoarden like, I'd say drop the stryian and tradition hops, aromatic, crystal, flaked oats and sweet orange peel. Add a pound of white wheat, use an ounce of...

I just cracked on of these bad boys open and it's pretty good. I typically open one bottle at 1 week, 1 bottle after 2 weeks, then I put a 6 pack in the fridge for a week and then really start to dig in to the beer after 3 weeks. One note on dry hopping.....I dry hopped with 2oz of leaf hops...

Thanks. I took a look at the fermentor (6 gallon glass) this morning, and it was bubbling away with a dark brown foam on top. Hopefully all is well.

the unboiled wort, the runoff from the grain bag is my main concern. I read about some infection, "lacto" that can come from unboiled grains or even grain dust getting in your fermentor. If I mashed at 155, would that have been enough to kill lacto? And doesn't boiling kind of "boil off" any off...