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Do you count brown malt as a "dark malt"? I was thinking 2 lbs of dark for an 11 lb mash wasn't bad...but I have no experience with brown malt.

by an-american I mean it's of course nutty and amberish in some degree. Not that it's brewed in North Korea.

Hey all. Brewed my first batch of beer--a kit-made I2pa. It's been in the primary for about a week now. I decided I was bored with the following directions and decided to just jump right into AG recipe creation. So...I'm pretty much set on this idea, but was wondering if there are any huge...

Greetings from cortown smack dab in the middle of Detroit, MI! Hit me up if anyone wants to grab a beer at nancy whisky or something and bounce some homebrewing ideas off the wall.

If Nitrogen is ONLY used as a pushing "umph", then why does nitro-tapped guiness and the like have that famously creamy, smooth head as opposed to just spitting out flat beer?

Ok, after reading up on this for 3+ hours, I've decided I fall squarely in the "leave your damn beer alone in the primary" camp. Off to the homebrew outlet to pick up a blow off tube and more ingredients for a second batch.

Why is a secondary a bad idea? Aren't I going to want to separate it out and clean up the beer? And my hydrometer is a big bobby one...so would it be horrible to test the gravity directly in the primary? Even if sterilized--is contamination that likely?

Update: So I raised the temperature to 68 and finally on hour 48 I finally noticed bubbling. I lowered the temp back to 63/64 and now it's not doing anything again. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the fermenting is doing its thing...and I'm just not seeing it. I'm going to rack it in...

My nephew just got diagnosed with Celiacs disease. I'm seeing sorghum products and such in my future. So I'm interested.

And the lid is on tight, for sure. If CO2 is being emitted, it's got to go through the airlock as far as I can tell....

When I get home from work tonight it will have been over 48 hours. If there's still nothing doing I'm sterlizing my hydrometer.

Hey all, Been drinking beer since I was 4 years old. Always wanted to brew it. 23 year later, two days ago--that dream has happened. Love the website. It's been immensely useful. Now, the problem: I brewed my first batch of beer, a double IPA. 36 hours later, there's still no...