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I racked my IPA to a secondary and dry hopped 3oz of pellets. It has been in the secondary for almost 2 weeks now. Since the second day there has been a quarter inch green layer on top of the brew which I assumed was the dissolved pellets floating. I was under the assumption that these would...

Just finished bottling my first batch. Ended up with 38 bottles and a 2L growler. Pretty excited to try it. The samples tasted great. She started out a little heavy at 1.062 but settled out at 1.016. This puts her a bit over 6% ABV. The samples had good malt flavor and a surprising...

Well……both of my first two batches (Big River Brown Ale & Ferocious IPA) are now just relaxin in their secondary at a breezy fo’ sheezy 66 degrees. :cool: After all of the activity taking place over the last few weeks, I have an itch. I’m sort of fighting the urge to...

I boiled an IPA on 1-5-14 and it has been at 1.020 (OG1.075) for 3 days. I racked to secondary tonight and added 3oz (total) of ahtanum, Amarillo, and citra for dry hopping. I am familiar with the whole secondary debate but as I have posted before, I want to try everything to gain experience and...

So I got tired of making big batches of Starsan so I did the math and figured the mix for a 26.5 oz spray bottle. Do we have any idea what the shelf life is? How long can I keep a mix in a spray bottle and expect it to be effective? Thanks

Hey All - New to the forum and did a lot of reading on here as I prepared so I just wanted to post a quick thank you and an update on the progress. Seems like its going pretty well. I did 5 gallon batch with a Big River Brown Ale extract kit from Midwest. The boil went according to plan...