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I brewed a variation of SpanishCastleAle's Traditional Bock, staying pretty close to the recipe. It all went pretty well with my new wilser bag, hit my gravity spot on, mash efficiency at 74%, although my brewhouse efficiency is still low due to too much trub loss in the kettle (probably need...

I am brewing my first lager today, a slightly modified Traditional Bock recipe posted here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f61/traditional-bock-131304/ Using two smack packs of Wyeast 2206 Bavarian Lager and I made two 1.5 liter starters (one for each pack) on Friday night. The starters are...

Just kegged my first AG (BIAB single vessel) batch of pale ale. It was a SMaSH and I thought it was doing awesome after 3 weeks in the fermenter. Clear, nice simple hops flavor. I left it on for another week (got busy) and then finally kegged at a little over 4 weeks. OG was around...

Last week, I brewed a Newcastle clone from AHS. I brewed it last year (extract kit with specialty grains) and it was a disaster: it turned out estery, it wasn't really drinkable, tasted like "juicy fruit." Went mini-mash this year and today, after 6 days, I took my first reading. OG was...

I made my first starter (Wyeast 1099 Whitbread) on Thursday afternoon and it was bubbling by Friday morning. I had hoped to brew my Newcastle-ish clone on late Friday or Saturday, but wasn't able to get started. I'd like to brew this afternoon, but have I let the starter sit too long at 3...

After a year off, I decided to get back in the game. Still learning and probably over ambitious, but it's fun. First stout and first time double pitching on a Milk Chocolate Holiday Stout. After 9 days in the primary, it's still pretty far off of the FG, but I don't know if that's good bad or...