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I was brewing an Irish Red Ale last week when this question came to my mind. So my recipe contained 20% caramel malt. So that's a lot of unfermentable sugars in the wort. My target OG was 1.054 (Actual turned out to be 1.055) and my target FG was 1.028 (Actual should've been 1.015 according to...

So I made a Bavarian Wheat using Wyeast Bavarian Wheat 3638. It's a low flocculating yeast. It's been in the primary for 10 days and the activity has stopped, plus the FG is stable now (I did the 3 day consecutive gravity check). I was planning to bottle it in a day or two. Since I'm making a...

I recently bought a 25 litre (6.5 gal) ice cooler to make a mash tun. It didn't come with a tap so I had to drill a hole. The hole got drilled slightly unevenly and there's a leakage. I tried using various gaskets, I tried using an epoxy adhesive from the outside, but both didn't work. The epoxy...

So I had a blonde ale in my fermenter which has been in there for a week now. I took a sample to check the FG. The FG has already reached the desired value. But there is still a layer of krausen sitting happily on top. I read a few topics in which people suggested to let the beer be till the...

Hi, I wanted to dry out a recipe of an Irish Stout which called for barley flakes. I couldn't find barley flakes but I got my hands on barley puffs. I wanted to know whether the puffs are a suitable substitution for the flakes. It says on the packet that the ingredient is just barley grains...