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Hello I am trying to set up a BIAB equipment profile.. See I use the Brewer’s Edge Mash&Boil I brew 3.5gal BIAB batch’s well I see in the Advanced options in BeerSmith 3 it has a Place for BIAB grain absorption so my question is what would I set the absorption to because the Mash&Boil has a...

Hello I found some pre-toasted coconut flakes from Brewer’s best. So my question is how would one go about sanitizing Pre-toasted coconut??? I know with regular coconut flakes you roast them an in doing that it sort of sanitizing them from the heat from the oven?

Hello I am looking into brewing a coconut porter. See I never use coconut before so I don’t know how much to use for my 3.5gal batch???

Hello I am sorry if I ask this before. But I brew 3.5gal batch’s of beer an I want to use gelatin to help my 3.5gal of beer to clear like I done with 5gal batch’s. I just don’t know how much gelatin to use for 3.5gal???

Hello I use half of my Fruit purée in my beer. So my question what the best ways to store the left over fruit purée so I can use it again if needed too?

Hello how would one go about weighting out fruit purée for smaller batch’s like for 3gallon’s?

Hello I am doing my first BIAB brew an I have a question is a mashout needed? I figure sense your doing it all in one brew pot that one can just Lyft the bag out an let it drain into the brew pot an as it’s draining start heating to boil an that would act as your mashout....

Hello I plan on fermenting my lager at 50f for 7days an then I would start ramping it up 2f per day until I am at 68f for the Diacetyl rest? Will this work for brewing a lager?

Hello I have a pumpkin spice tincture that I going to let it set for a couple of weeks. So my question after I let it set for like a month would I need to Filter it an how would one go about filtering there pumpkin spice Tincture?

Hello I have a question would adding a 1/2 Tablespoon of mcCormick’s pumpkin spice to a 5gal pumpkin ale recipe be too much spice?

Hello I have a question to the people that use the anvil bucket fermenter How would one use a Thermowell?

Hello I am having a hard time figuring out what my evaporation rate is. I test 2 times the first time I put 5gal in my 10gal Tall boy brew pot an brought that to a boil an Time That for 15min an let it cool over night with the lid on it an I pour it back into my plastic fermenter bucket that...

Hello I am trying for the life of me to figure out my Boiloff rate. I know each person system is different an there is a lot of thing’s that can affect your boiloff rate’s. My equipment is 10gal Tallboy from Northern brewer an a anvil Burner. So basically what I am asking is how would one...

Hello I have question about kegging my output gauge the one that you dial in for carbonation. Well I have my set to 40psi the reason it’s at 40psi is I am doing burst carbonate well anyway I do have my Co2 regulator an tank in my refrigerator an like I said I have it set @40psi but I notice the...

Hello I have a question regarding brewing a Berliner Weiss beer. Basically what I trying to figure out is the boil. I see a lot of recipe’s call for a 15min boil an also those same recipes have 50% or more pilsner malt now it’s my understanding anytime one brew’s with pilsner malt they need...

I am looking at this recipe from Jamil brewing classic styles book it’s his Belgian double. My question is the fermentation profile the describes in the book he say Pitch yeast at 64 ° F (18 ° C), and let the temperature rise slowly to 68 over the course of 1week. now at what rate would one...

Hello I am trying to figure out how to brew this barley wine. But with 26lbs of 2-row malt even if I use 1qt/lb that put me at over 8gallons total in my 10gal mash-tun cooler I would rather divide up 26lbs an replace it with some DME. But how Would I incorporate the DME into brewing this beer?

Hello I have a somewhat stupid question to ask you guy's. Well here my question after I brew I clear my fermenter, airlock , ranking crane an hose, my brew kette an ball valve with PBW. I thoroughly clean all of those thing's so after all that I don't brew but ever few months. So...

Hello I use a dual ranco temp controller to control my fermentation. My other question is i like to ramp up my fermentation temp after about 4days or when it start to slow down. Now with my controller when I am controlling both heating and cooling at the same time how would I ramp up my...

Hello when I see fermentation for a given recipe say to slowly raise the temperature. Like for example the fermentation slows, slowly raise the from 68f to 72 °F (22 °C) over the last couple days, which increases the activity of any still-active yeast cells and helps ensure complete...