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I'm looking to brew a citrus pale ale for my next brew after the overwhelming popularity of my blue moon clone. Right now I'm leaning towards a light grain bill of 2 row, Vienna, and c10 trying to keep it around 5%abv. What do you guys think for hops? All citra? Citra, cascade, and Amarillo...

I'm brewing my 10th all grain batch this weekend and I think it's time to start looking at my water profile and mash ph and its effects on my brews. One thing I've noticed is I don't seem to get the amazing attenuation that I read about others getting. With US-05/1056 I seem to cosistently get...

I'm brewing a Kölsch this weekend. The recipe I'm following is pretty straightforward with 2 hop additions of german hallertau. Most of the information I can find puts the alpha acids of hallertau around 4%. The ones from my homebrew shop are 2.7%. They're made by hopunion. Should I just adjust...

Went to transfer my Two hearted ale clone from primary to secondary and I found this floating in the fermenter. What is it? Recipe was the same as the popular two hearted clone found on this website. Yeast was harvested from bottles of bells amber ale. This was my third all grain batch and 6th...

2 and a half weeks ago i bottled 2 batches of beer. I bottled an Irish ale ~4% abv and a nugget nectar clone ~6.5% abv. My nugget nectar is perfectly carbonated but my irish ale is borderline undrinkable the carbonation is so low. I used a priming calculator for both and even used more sugar in...

So I'm currently working on acquiring a chest freezer to make a fermentation chamber. The one I can get should hold 2 buckets. How long do I need to strictly control fermentation temps? The reason I ask is that in my house it routinely drops below 60 degrees in the winter and can exceed 80 in...

So I brewed my second all grain batch today. First batch went great and I nailed all my numbers. Everything was going great today until I went to vorlauf. I opened the valve a bit, grains came spewing out then nothing. Uh oh. My buddy and I ended up dumping the entire mash tun, grains and all...

I recently got a yeast starter kit from northern brewer. The directions have me a little confused. It has directions for a 1 liter and a 2 liter starter. The 1 liter directions say to use 650mL of water and the 2 liter directions say to use 1300mL of water. Maybe it's just me, but I was under...

I've tried searching but none of the threads answer my exact question. I'm considering going all grain after a few extract brews. I need a larger kettle and I'm trying to figure out what purpose a false bottom would serve? I'm currently leaning towards a 10 gallon cooler mash tun and 10...

So my first brew is just finishing up fermenting and I already have my next two batches planned. The next batch will be the Dead Ringer IPA. That kit uses 9lbs of lme and has a target OG of 1.064. My next planned brew will be a Nugget Nectar clone from my local hb store. That kit uses 8lbs of...