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My daughter is planning a speakeasy party at the assisted living she works at and they asked if I would make beer for it. It's less than a month out so I figured an ale should be doable by then. How does this recipe look? 4 lbs 2 row 4 lbs Maris Otter 4 oz. melanoidin .25 oz. Magnum for 60...

I just got back my water profile. It is a bit Greek to me as of now but hopefully I can figure out what to do with it shortly. PH = 8.0 TDS = 245 ppm Electrical conductivity 0.41 Cations / Anions, me/L = 3.5/3.7 Na = 9 K = <1 Ca = 48.4 Mg = 9 CaCO3 = 158 NO3-N = 4.4 SO4-S = 5 Cl = 11 CO3 =...

I'll preface this by saying that I've been focusing on brewing traditional Bavarian beers lately thinking that if I can perfect my methods with them, then all of my other brews will be better because of it. I'm trying to understand decoction mashing and while I think I am getting the gist of it...

I just scored a free side by side fridge/freezer and was thinking that if I could get the freezer to go up to 35 or so and the fridge to 50 I could ferment in one side and lager in the other since my fermenters fit in the one side and corny kegs fit in the other. Any ideas as to how to go about...

The hop schedule is more dependent on fermentation rather than actual days, this is also my first from scratch recipe so I'm hopeful that it'll come out how I am picturing it in my head. I'll let y'all know if it works out how I intended in a few weeks, I am very optimistic. Also, the second...

Hi all, my name's Jay and I just started brewing this year. I have only done an extract American ale that came with a kit and an all grain dunkelweizen(has a few more days to go in the fermentor) so far. The dunkelweizen came up a bit low on the OG(still within range and tastes great so far...