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First go at making a porter, so I I took some cues from some other recipes and tried to work inside the style trends I saw. This is my first shot at designing a beer so any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. I also ran what numbers I could by hand for practice and used hopville the...

Was just working on brewing my 5th batch and decided to crack open a beer from my 4th batch to drink during the boil. I immediately detected some off flavors that I had also encountered in my 2nd batch beers. My best description is that it tasted stale and sour. It tasted fine before I bottled...

I'm working on piecing together my first partial mash recipe from an all grain version here on the forums. I'm doing all the conversion math myself, which I have pretty much figured out but don't have enough brewing experience to know much about ingredient comparisons and substitutions. So what...

In extract brewing, is there a standard time and temp for steeping grains? I've had three batches all do it differently. It seems that 20-30 minutes at 150 is pretty common. Yay or nay?

I was checking the gravity of a red ale today and totally blanked out when I was taking the sample. I dunked the enter cylinder into the beer, including my hand. The cylinder and my hand had just been in some star san and the beer is a already a week into fermentation, meaning there is a good 4%...