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Hi Everyone, This maybe a silly question....... I was wondering whether anyone had noticed that bottle carbonation ever imparted what appears to be an increase in the bitterness of a beer. I brewed a pale ale that I bottled a week ago. Before bottling I had a great hop forward stone fruit...

Hi Everyone, I have a El Dorado SMASH beer that is ready to be dry hopped however, I was hoping to get advice on the time schedules for dry hopping and whether there is a significant difference between leaving the dry hop for 3, 5 or 7 days? Any advice would be great. Thank you.

This weekend I brewed and I am getting frustrated with my lack of volume control. I would like to get a better understanding of my losses in volume during mashing and boiling. I brew BIAB. I have a 10 gallon boil kettle that I use for my BIAB and I was wondering if anyone knew of the best way...

Hi Everyone, I had a quick question, I'm currently brewing my first dark beer - a porter all grain kit. Usually my go to beer is a hoppy pale/IPA and using US-05 it ferments out within a week using my controlled temperature setup. I had a packet of US-05 left over for this beer so I have...

Hi Everyone, I have got to the point where I'm kind of proud of my beer and I would love to share a few bottles with friends. I had a number of questions that I was hoping that I could get a bit of help with. 1) Firstly, I live in California and it may be naive......but are you...

Hi Everyone I just wondered whether any one knew of any pubs/places where brewdog is being sold in the Bay Area? I have read and watched people talk crazily about the IPA and 5am saint and was hoping to grab some to see if it is really all that has been said of the beer!] Thanks!

I am planning on brewing a northwest amber ale and I think I'm going to use the partial mash recipe below: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/beer-recipe-of-the-week-big-basin-amber-ale/ I was interested in the instruction to add 3lbs of the DME upon flameout. I have...

Hi Everyone, I'm currently brewing a NE IPA and the recipe schedules for a dry hop addition directly to the keg. Unfortunately, I'm still in the bottling stage and therefore I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to circumvent this? My thoughts were to transfer from my primary to...

I currently live in an apartment and therefore I am currently limited with respect to temperature control. I have stuck to Saison brewing recently to take advantage of this. However, I wondered if there were any other yeast types that enjoyed the 72 to 74 temperature range and as such give...

Hi Everyone, I'm having an issue. I have brewed two IPAs, a porter and a saison. The two IPAs I used Safeway bought water and they turned out wonderful. However, with the porter I used brita filtered water (the tap water in my area is hard) and Arrowhead spring water for the saison. For...

I live downtown in an apartment in California and I am therefore rather restricted in the brewing and temperatures of my beer at present. I have brewed a couple of great IPAs (including the American Dog Fish IPA extract which I definitely recommend to beginners like me). As such I was...

Hi Everyone, Currently waiting for my first brew to cool before I pitch the yeast. I have my brew pot submersed in the bath tub at present and its cooling down. However, I have read about the dangers of oxidation and sulfur containing compounds and I just wondered whether there was an agreed...