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So, for the last year I've been making strong IPA's and have been using a blow-off valve to avoid the airlock getting jammed up. This works great, by the way - fixed the problem completely. However, I decided to make some brown ales recently and reflexively just used the blow-off valve instead...

Although I aspire to a huge kettle and propane outdoor setup someday, for now I'm stuck cooking in the kitchen using a 5 gallon kettle. As we all know, can't fill that sucker up all the way due to things getting potentially getting exciting should a boil-over strike. As such, during the...

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Over and over again, I've had more success with bottle conditioned beer than I have with any of the beer I've kegged. I've been kegging my IPAs after 2 weeks in primary followed by a 10 day dry-hopping period. Followed by a typical 3 weeks under pressure at 38F and 12 PSI to hit desired...

My quest to create the most face-meltingly bitter and hoppy IPA over the last few years has resulted in much awesome, but has also resulted in my average materials running about $70-80 per batch. Not really a problem, as no sacrifice is too big in the pursuit of IPA. However, I find myself...

The worst part of bottling, of course, is the hour and change spent cleaning and sanitizing all the bottles. Love having bottles on hand in addition to kegs , but it's very time consuming. Someone asked me why I didn't just put the bottles in the dishwasher, since it gets hot enough to kill...

Hey team, I recently bought a glass carboy to upgrade from my plastic fermentation bucket, and I bought a funnel with a built-in filter. I made a strong IPA recently, however even though I was careful when pouring the wort into the funnel, the filter immediately got clogged and it was a...

I'm looking to make a nice, bitter IPA and have spent some time reading the forums and also taking notes from the kits I've been using so far. I've been doing extract kits for awhile now and wanted to create something original. Please let me know what you think. 5 Gallon batch - 3 gallon...

I don't believe I've ever seen this topic addressed - please forgive if I've missed it elsewhere. I'm wondering whether or not you should make sure that the trub on the bottom of the boiling kettle be included/excluded from the fermenting barrel. In other words, is the work of the hops that...

I'm still using recipe kits. Many of the kits include specialty grains and a steeping bag. The directions say to just let the bag sit in the 155F water for a set amount of time. It seems to me that you'd get the most out of the grains if you moved the bag around in the pot (at least it seems...

I've been working with extracts thus far, and am about to venture out into my first non-kit recipe (The Blood Moon IPA that Bowlersp put up on this site in the Recipe Database under IPA's). The recipe calls for dry hopping one week into the fermentation process (after primary fermentation...

OK, we all know the benefits of sanitation, both in making beer and in life in general. This being the case, it seems strange to me that we are using tap water for our beer. Shouldn't we be using distilled or boiled water? Or is that going a bit over the top and unnecessary? Someone here...

Finished kegging my first batch of beer. Even after my OCD driven cleaning and sterilization and attention to sanitation throughout the whole process, there was a rainbow-like streak on the surface of the beer in the keg. Going out on a limb and stating that that is bad. Then, when I turned...

I've been brewing for a year now (about 8 batches under my belt), and just received a keg as a gift, which is outstanding as I could do without the bottling process. However, it doesn't fit in the garage fridge and I don't want to buy anther fridge to make into a kegerator. I noticed a...