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Back in July we bottled my wife's first ever homebrew - a one gallon 10% Imperial Coffee Stout. After a 28 day fermentation we siphoned from the fermenter to a bottling bucket and gently stirred the beer. We added one level tsp of table sugar to each of 7 bottles prior to filling them with beer...

So, making a starter with WLP002 and I wanted to try using Proper Starter, the canned concentrate. Assumed I knew what I was doing, but I obviously gave myself far too much credit. Poured 2 cans is the concentrate in and added the yeast. Spun for 36 hours and then refrigerated overnight. This...

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I'm thinking about trying this and am looking for pros and cons from those that do. Has anyone tried this with neipas? If so, how successful were/are you? A couple thoughts - I have an extra dip tube, ordered and on the way, that I plan on shortening a bit to be used for moving the beer to...

For those who haven't heard... https://brewpublic.com/beer-news/russian-river-brewing-co-to-bottle-pliny-the-younger-in-2020/

Pretty much what the title says....I just got back my Ward Labs water (brewers) report, see below. I'm looking for some feedback on how this looks. I'll also be doing a deep dive into Bru n water to see where to go with this information as well.

I bought a few oz of Idaho 7 some months back and I've designed a recipe in Beersmith to use them, (and a couple leftover grains as well). I'm looking for comments both pro and con. 5 1/2 - 6 gallons BIAB (my normal batch size, usually enough to keg + a 6pk). Looking for an IPA that's not...

I brewed what I'm calling an Irish Coffee Stout (1.25 gallons) today using mostly leftover grains, and this was the first time formulating a recipe from scratch. I think I must have mis-measured my grains because I ended up with a couple anomalies - my Measured Mash Efficiency was 102.1% and my...

Interesting.. https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/04/151-of-the-best-pale-ales-blind-tasted-and-ranked.html

I see the phrase "take good notes" issued all over this forum. I know I started taking notes right off the bat, but as I brewed a few batches my note-taking evolved. I think it would be quite helpful to new brewers (which I consider myself), to give some examples of your note-taking. What notes...

Third ag biab attempt, Nine days in, dry hopped yesterday and it's smelling great!! It's an amarillo SMaSH. With my previous two beers I seemed to transfer a fair amount of debris into bottles. Since I biab i can set my mill quite tight. Tight enough that it produces a fair amount of "dust"...

I'm planning on brewing an Amarillo SMaSH in a few weeks and since I'm still pretty green at this I'm looking for impressions, suggestions, and critiques. Here's a recipe I've found and I put it into Beersmith, scaled for my equipment. BIAB All grain 15 gal. Spike kettle Total water needed...

So, I've had Yooper's Oatmeal Stout in the fermenter for 5 weeks and today was finally bottling day. Because the beer only got down to 1.023 I did back off on the amount of corn sugar for bottling, which may be important to this story. I had about 2/3 of it transferred to the bottling...

Last night I bottled my first grapefruit pale ale. I used simcoe (60mins), citra(10mins), and dry hopped with cascade and grapefruit zest. For the zest I used 4 oz of fresh zest and 2 oz of dried grapefruit peel that I got from a local homebrew shop. I originally planned to bottle after the dry...

Is this the best place to ask this? I want to move from extract to BIAB so I recently downloaded Beersmith2 and have setup a 5 gallon profile using my new 15g Spike kettle. A lot of this is still quite new to me so I was wondering if I can get some feedback on the profile setup? Do the...

Recently bought a Blichmann floor standing burner and the natural gas conversion since I'll be brewing on my back patio where I already have my NG gas grill. My Weber grill uses a 1/2 inch hose with a 3/8 inch quick disconnect. I'd like to buy a separate hose with a 3/8 inch quick disconnect for...