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I used to be a crazy never-enough hop-head that was always in search of really hopped-up, hoppy-hopped beer. Found a few that I loved, and then decided to start brewing my own. I remember opening my first bag of hop pellets. Oh! That aroma! I was so excited and with every brew I made...

So I just did a search on bottle bombs and scared myself silly. I'm getting a nice pipeline of bottled beer, and have started storing beer in a room rather than my freezer chest/fermentor. The room is air-conditioned but on weekends the air-conditioning is set very high, and the room has the...

Is there a way of calculating IBU additions in Brewers Friend for the addition of hops at flame-out? For instance, I toss in a few oz of hops at flame-out, cover and let sit for 15-20 minutes before cooling and pitching. Besides aroma, there should be a significant bump in IBU based on the...

Picked up a bottle of liquid raspberry flavoring in order to make a Raspberry Wheat beer for my wife. Talked to my LHBS and they suggested adding it to the secondary for about 7-10 days before bottling. Has anyone used this stuff before? I was wondering if there might be a better way - like...

Things seemed to be going well, and now I'm struggling. I hate not being awesome at what I do and am getting frustrated. 1) Just bottled an IPA. Put in 4.5oz of Corn Sugar as I've done in other batches. But with this batch, I cold-crashed prior to bottling. So I'm on the carbonation...

Trying to figure out what this taste is on my last batch. Its both in the aroma and taste of an IPA. One of those brews where everything seemed to go wrong - pitched at too high a temp due to faulty thermometer, some potential oxidation moving the full fermenter across town to a new location...

IPA Question: With most dry hops recommended at 5-7 days, and many on this site saying cold crashing should be minimally 2 days long, can both be simultaneous? Or better to offset by a couple days? Or better to do dry hop, then crash after? Just thinking that crashing will cause the hops...

Just held a few bottles of a batch of IPA to the light. Looks like there's some stuff floating around. Then I turned the bottle upside down and HOLY BAJEEZUS THE STUFF THAT DROPPED! Amongst the swampy darkness, I could actually see some larger chunks of hop. Is this normal? I used a...

I've been reading a lot of books on my new hobby. My ultimate goal is to create my own recipes - kits are fun, clones are cool, and trying other people's recipes can be interesting. But ultimately, I'm doing this because I want a creative outlet (and because it happens to parallel a strong...

Putting together a fermenter. I have an A19AAT thermostat sitting in a 15 cu ft freezer chest. I have been playing with this for hours now and have tried suggestions based on other posts (in water, suspended, etc.). I seem to have a 10 degree variance between the thermostat setting and the...

Tons of activity in the first 24 hours, but now - no CO2 release. Not a single bubble. Thoughts? Hurricane IPA kit, temps were a little high, around 76F. 5gal batch.

Hi, Just a quick introduction - Long time craft beer snob but newbie on the brewing side. Thought I would give it a shot and so the wife bought me a Mr. Beer kit for my birthday. Not really what I was hoping for, but I gave it a shot. Doesn't take a genius to realize that the 'add water...