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I've entered my first wort competition, the brewery putting on the comp is handing out the wort and each brewer creates their own beer from said wort... the wort is just a basic 2row pale and I want to make a stout out of it. My thoughts are to add some roasted barley, chocolate malt, some...

Wings and beer go great together, both are delicious and super healthy.. I'll start, these are fresh Wings I did the bake, rest, fry, sauce, method. Made a garlic parm hot sauce, baked the Wings at 350f for 20 min, flipped an baked for another 20min then dusted with semolina flour to add texture...

For those of you doing 15 gallon batches or larger what's your process and time frame for lautering with a fly sparge?.. I have been having varying efficiency and I'm trying to narrow things down. When I brewed 5gallon batches I would transfer slow from mash tun to boil kettle while fly sparging...

Ok, so here's what I've brewed and it scored a 29, judges were a little conflicting on hop bitterness but both detected DMS.. I think the beer is pretty good but always looking to improve. I did have to use more hops than expected because the saaz I got from yakima chief were only 2.2% alpha...

Yeah, so I've got some old hops that I need to dispose of, not gonna use them, failed the smell test, and need to get them out of the freezer. I've got probably 30ish chickens, these effers eat everything, but I don't want to hurt them. Obviously I'd just mix the pellets in their regular feed at...

So I was planning an early morning brew day tomorrow, well some things came up and it might get pushed back. So I am aware of ppl doing overnight mashes to save brewday time. My typical brewday start to finish including cleanup is 6hours. 6 hours of pure joy. But any how, my thought is to mash...

I plan to brew a rye ipa this weekend and I am wondering how people are milling rye, as in gap setting. Seems as though it is pretty small and I can adjust my mill pretty far, any suggestions?

Ok, so I acquired a spunding valve. I want to use it. So what are the basics and what styles benefit from it the most? And what can I expect come time to keg?

I brewed a new zealand pilsner a week ago, brew day went great, all numbers were on point. Then as I'm filling my fermenter I look over and see a couple packs of hops sitting on the table. They were supposed to be whirlpool hops.. CRAP!! Ok well to late so whatever, I moved on. Now should I...

To start, I don't use dry yeast typically but want to use it more. I know I read something similar to my question on here but I can't find it, I brew 15 gallon batches and for this one will probably start with 16-17 gallons in the fermenter. Its going to be a new zealand pilsner and using 34/70...

Hey everyone, so as long a no major changes occur in the next couple weeks, my wife and I are panning a trip to the Richmond area to tour some breweries and whatnot. Its about a 4 hour roadtrip for us so not to bad at all. The veil is on my list to visit as well as several other but I am curious...

I am part of a small homebrew club, 10 to 15 people usually at the meetings. Our president has been wanting us to be more organized in our discussions, and come up with an idea for each meeting that we can do a small presentation on. Nothing crazy but good topics that can generally help the...

Thought I would share a fun project here. We are on our 5th annual pig roast now and this year I decided to build a new smoker for the big fella. It is a fun event we do in July, lots of food, lots of beer, regular and homebrew, firework show in the evening, cornhole, ladder golf, volleyball...

So here is my scenario.. 15gal batch so i am for 16.5 in the fermenter when i plan on a big dry hop, i build a 4000ml starter using all the typical calculators to get proper yeast cells .. thats simple. now say i came up a little short on my volume in the fermenter and rather then lose the...

Alright so i have been wanting to make the switch to evabarrier and duotight. i built my 4 tap keezer years ago and my shanks have the 1/4 inch barb as part of the shank (not removable) well after spending the known amount on flow control intertaps and the the evabarrier hose and fittings it...

this morning i started brewing a baltic porter, i did my salt additions and ph adjustment (using acid malt) according to beer smith. i took my mash ph reading at about 10 to 15 min into the mash, cooled the sample to 70f and it came in around 4.8, i use a digital ph meter with atc. so i...

I use beer smith for all my brewing calculations and am just getting into water profile and salt additions. i brew 15 gal batches, i use my well water and got a ward labs analysis. i brew with a herms 3v system. my hlt i fill to about 22gal to cover my coil plus some so i have extra hot water...

How do you all acquire the hard to get beers that arent in your area? I live in central PA and there are tons of great beers around me, but other then special events we dont see a lot of the big name crafts here. anything ranging from treehouse, alchemist, to russian river and all points in...

So few weeks back i had planned to keg my neipa, i do closed transfers from my cf15. i use a glycol chiller and had dry hopped it about 3 days prior at about 60degrees then turned my chiller on. i had planned it so that i would keg the batch on a friday that i had off work because i was leaving...

so i brewed a west coast ipa, its a good beer but say i wanted to give a little more hop presence. is it possible to add hops post kegging. obviously to avoid oxidation i could trickle c02 while adding anything. i have one keg already being served and 2 more sitting at about 60 degrees in my...