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Anyone know what S-04 (I used a ginormous over-pitch, aka full yeast-cake yesterday afternoon) does at 72F? I forgot to swap out ice jugs this morning in the swamp cooler. :oops: When I checked on it just now, I see the temperature is at 72F. Smell seems pretty normal for a big chocolatey...

I mix up my StarSan solution in 1 gallon plastic jugs of distilled water, and then use those to fill up a spray bottle. I also keep extra 1 gallon plastic jugs laying around, to fill with tap water and freeze them, for my swamp cooler/fermenter. Since I was brewing today, I tossed a couple of...

My favorite pale ale recipe (so far) is pretty simple: og: 1053, fg: 1011, ibu: 35+ish 90% briess brewers malt 9% briess munich 10L 1% flaked wheat Cascade @60 for about 15 ibu Cascade @15 for about 8 ibu Citra @15 for about 15 ibu dry hop with way more Citra yeast: S-04, kept under 68F But...

I've got some chocolate syrup, that I'd like to figure out it's PPG, for adding as a custom fermentable to Brewers Friend... The 16.5 oz bottle says it has 12 servings, each serving size is 2 tbsp (40 grams), and contains 24 grams sugar. I thought I could reason it out, but have to admit, my...

I made a batch of pale ale early this summer that I fermented with a 3rd generation of S-04. Unlike the previous brews, where gravity went from 1053 -> 1011, this one went from 1055 -> 1006. At bottling time, I was not sure if the beer would be any good or not, so I just dumped the yeast cake...

Been a long time since I used malt extract for anything other than boosting gravity for big, roasty imperial stouts. But now I'm going to brew something quick (basically a 15 minute hop tea), and the rest will all be Briess Golden Light DME (4.5 lbs), and 1 lb of LD Carlson's knockoff D-180...

Just saw this on Reddit, and as luck would have it, work is taking me to Rogers tomorrow -- gonna pop in and check it out. The website doesn't have any product info other than listing some yeast. https://www.mnhomebrew.com/

Bottled my 2.5 gallons of Cascade/Citra Session Pale Ale. Despite taking some steps to minimize oxygen, the aroma was very underwhelming (when in theory, aroma should have been at it's peak). Looks like a lot of the hops never even dissolved. They were in a paint straining bag that I tied the...

Was at the grocery store when this caught my eye! Anyone ever used it in a beer?

Anyone used this malt? How does it compare to a nice English Pale Malt?

Anyone here ever (well, recently, don't want 10 year old experiences) order their grain milled from Ritebrew? Teaching a brewing newbie how to all-grain BIAB, and don't want to tell him he needs to get a mill right away (nor do I want to mill all his grain for him :rolleyes:).

83.3% 2-row 8.3% munich 10L 2.1% caramel 40L 2.1% flaked barley 4.2% sugar cascade @60 for 20 ibu cascade @15 for 10 ibu citra @15 for 16 ibu dry-hopped with an ounce of citra for 5 days og: 1057, fg: 1007 (woops, mashed at 149F) abv: 6.5% ibu: 45 Taste: really nice, but it's got just a...

Today I went to an acquaintance's house to show him how to brew beer in his kitchen, and he only has an iPad to work with. Had him create an account on brewersfriend.com, and had him input my printed-out recipe... And spoiler-alert: it was beyond frustrating -- dropdowns worked about half the...

Looking to improve the head/foam of a couple of recipes that have almost no caramel/crystal malts... What do you use to get better foam?

80% basic 2-row (briess) 15% munich 10L (briess) 3% caramel 60L (briess) 2% brown sugar Cascade @60 for 20 ibu Citra @15 for 17 ibu Cascade @15 for 10 ibu OG: 1056 FG: 1010 ABV: 6% IBU: 47 Yeast: us-05 mash pH target: 5.45 target water profile: Brewers Friend "Light Colored and Hoppy" I'll...

Discovering full, unlabeled, bottles of beer that you don't remember making! And worse yet? It's really freakin' good beer that I'll never re-create! 😥 I really need to take better notes, print out my recipes, and glue them to my wine-box storage units...

Made 1 gallon of 1.046 wort (brought to a brief 5 minute boil) from 33% 2-row, 67% flaked oats, and pitched about a quarter pack of LalBrew Abbaye dry yeast. Anyways, thought I'd check to see if it looks like it'll be usable for brewing a Westvletern clone tomorrow -- still got a nice big...

About to take a stab at this, I've got a pound each of D-90 and D-180 CandiSyrup, wondering what yeast I should go with, for a belgian dark/strong ale. I've got a pack of LalBrew Abbaye in my fridge (never used it before), and can drive to BeerMeister in Medina to get Wyeast 1214, or I can...

If ya ask me, Wisconsin seems like they are being seriously under-counted 😂 🤣 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-beer-consumption-by-state/

Plan is to make one gallon of 1.040 wort from some briess 2-row, split it into two 1 gallon jugs, and freeze. Do I need to add any hops? I've got some already opened packs I could use. Do I need to boil it for longer than a minute?