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So I will be attempting my first barley wine in the next couple of weeks. I am shooting for an english variety and need help determining if my hops schedule is balanced for an english barley wine. I based my recipe off of another I found online and just tweeked in a bit. 19# English Two row...

So Im a fairly experienced brewer, like twenty batches in since November and I just ran into a really weird issue. So I brewed a rosemary IPA and it came out great. No proproblems at all when I chill it the same day I drink it, but I put a bottle in the fridge for like 3 weeks and it had a...

So when I read up on vorlaufing it basically says to recirculate your runoff on top on the grain, my question is when exactly is this done? Typically I will empty out my mash and then squeeze the bag...then I start sparging, gathering the first liter or so of the sparge and pouring it on top of...

So I am a little confused about this mash. I am brewing a five gallon batch of blonde ale with 8.25# total grain. I am doing a rest at 154 and then mash out at 170. Since I am using such a small grain bill how much am I going to sparge? By my calculations of 1.5 quarts per pound (and when...

What are some good options to ferment a brown ale?

Charlie Papazian once wrote, "Here's a little gem that will help reduce chill haze and reduce some harshness: Add about 1 oz of finely crushed black malt to your light beers at the end of the mash. The addition will not affect color significantly but will absorb some of the polyphenols, tannins...

So I just read that adding 1oz of finely crushed black malt at the end of the mash will help with chill haze and possible tannin bite. Has anyone ever tried this and by ``end of mash`` do they mean before Sparging?

So I am doing my first AG and I want to brew a pale ale. I want to try This recipe i found but dont want to dry hop because i want to check the chillhaze without any risk of hop floaties, still need to get a dry hopper. So the recipe calls for this: 15 minute-- 1 oz Citra 10 minute--1 oz...

So I have some questions about calculating the HBU of my beer. People say adding one oz of a 10% alpha acid hop to a brew will add 10 HBU points to the final product for five gallon batches. First off, is this correct. Does this point system work for 5 gallon only and i would have to do the...

So I seem to be very confused about grain ratios and water absorption and seeing as i dont want to stress too much while actually brewing my first batch I thought I would push around some questions now. Lets just say I am brewing a five gallon batch of Pale Ale with 11.5 pound grain bill...

So my brewing buddy and I have been debating certain sanitation procedures and I was looking for some input from the brewing community to shed some light on this dispute. The first question I have is, does Star San, when mixed properly, impart off flavors to the final product? My brewing...

I am looking to buy a couple kettles off of a fellow brewer to do all grain batches, would nine gallon kettles be enough for 5 gallon yields as long as the gravity isnt too crazy. I should be able to do 5 gallon batches up to about 1.100 og right?

So we I go to chill my wort with an immersion cooler, should I be stirring the wort to increase protein flocculation? I filter the hops and most the plant matter out of the wort after the boil if that makes a difference. Thoughts?

So I recently bottled an American Imperial IPA and right after I finished bottling I thought I might have ruined the batch..here is why. We dry hopped the batch when we racked into the secondary and used loose cone hops. When we went to finish the batch we had a lot of plant material floating...

I seem to have some confusion about the Cold Break process. I use an immersion chiller and it drops the temp of the wort really well, from 200+ to arround 75 degrees in about 15-20 minutes. My question is, am I suppose to see a mass of protein flocculate at the bottom of the boiling tun before I...

So I brewed a Double Chocolate/Double Coffee Stout last week and have yet to transfer it to a secondary fermentation vessel because I had to purchase more rubber air lock caps for my glass carboy, my question is, if the krausen layer fell about three days ago, how long do i have before i must...

So I have been brewing since about October and have already gotten very comfortable with extract brewing, I have done about ten batches total and will be making the transistion to all grain brewing soon. Do you guys have any hints to All Grain brewing I should know before going all in? What...

Does anyone know of any companies that sell hop sample packs? I am looking to get a pack of maybe a dozen or so hop varietals so I can experiment with taste differences. I plan on cracking a twelve pack of bud light (for the first and last time) just so I can dry hop them for four days or so and...