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Greetings! Curious your recommendations for a delicious standalone imperial stout - which would also be accommodating to customization, like oak chips/whiskey or maybe cherries or marshmallows etc. Thoughts? Thank you,

Hi, First shot at any type of sour. I totally misinterpreted the instructions and had an "AHA" moment at like 3am. Basically, I mashed, cooled, added the uncrushed grain and am incubating with the crushed grain I mashed. Should I have taken it out? will this have an impact? This grain was...

Hi, making a dry hopped funky pale ale. The target gravity is 1.030, i was planning on pitching brett for 3-4 days then finishing with US-05. Only looking for a little funk. Because of the low OG, can i pitch my vial directly in the the wort as it will work as a very large starter of sorts...

Hi Just picked up a pound of Vic Secret and 1/2lb of topaz. I am planning on brewing up some juicy hop forward IPA's. The AA content is higher than i expected 12% ( I didn't bother checking before ordering not that it would have stopped me). So, Obviously I can dryhop with this. But should I...

Worse day at work ever, my dog's cancer is aggressive and the medication is making me bankrupt. I dreamt about a nice first carbed pull of the Mosaic/Citra NEIPA i recently brewed all day. Pull the handle....What? Nothing? inspects lines, notices everything is frozen. Opens keg, frozen beer...

So, 2 + years back I ordered 4 different rhizome's. My 3yo daughter at the time helped me plant them, to my mistake I was too distracted to notice we didn't carry the label over with the rhizome.:ban: So , I have a mixture of Cascade, Chinook, Nugget and Norther Brewer. I planted them WAY to...

Not incredibly refined. Curious your thoughts on this stout recipe. Mash temps and yeast etc? Lactose or no? Its going to be racked to a secondary with wood chips for a month or so. 10 lbs. Maris Otter Pale 4oz roasted barley 4oz Dark chocolate malt 4oz Caramel/Crystal 90L 1 lb...

Greetings, So I'm struggling understanding this water business. I've read numerous posts and the more recent highlighted variances. I am understanding the different values, flavors they add and what contributes to them. What I am missing is...how many grams of X = this many PPM of X...

I harvested some Conan from a few alchemist cans. fermentation went as expected. However as I transferred it to a mason jar, i'm noticing a funky smell. Maybe mildewy? hard to describe. Does Conan have a particular odor?

Hi, Just recently started using Brewbench.co . In fact I'm still in the testing phase. However, I cannot manually turn the controller on and off. When I select on, it turns the temperature on. is this working as intended? http://www.brewbench.co/ :mug:

This may be the best NE IPA I have ever had the privileged of drinking. Anyone else share this same pleasure? Better yet, anyone up to helping me clone it? Bissell was kind enough to give us the ingredients. AN ALL AUSTRALIAN DOUBLE DRY HOPPED DOUBLE IPA HOPS: ELLA, SUMMER, VIC...

Hi, Thinking about some of my favorite cans to wait in line for at $5 each got me wondering what exactly are they doing to make this mud like appearance. Sure, flaked oats/wheat etc and the hop oils lend to this. But this stuff is murky. Could a turbid mash be utilized to gain this...

Hello, Searched online for an easy calculator, could'nt really find a simple free one. I made a whiskey barrel stout from a kit years back. came out awesome and I want to try it all grain now. Can you help me convert it and maybe show me the formula? Shooting for an OG of 1.061-1.065...

I've seen quite a few posts inquiring about pretzel flavoring. Usually the op suggest adding pretzels to the mash. I haven't seen much feedback regarding this method and am hesitant to try it on my own. I'm not in an rush to brew a pretzel beer, but it's on my radar. Because pretzels are...

So after screwing up a batch i was really optimistic about because I completely failed on my water chemistry(added WAY too much gypsom ), I decided to try to learn more about it. It seems like as soon as you get a handle on something and your beer improves, there is something else you need to...

Has anyone had the pleasure of tasting this Sappy piney delight? Website states nearly all Chinook, my guess may be some simcoe as well. Any idea on a grain bill?:mug:

Just got a nice new thermometer, was shooting for 15. strike water at 163 to account for some loss while mashing. Put the bag in, stirred, was floating around 148. applied some heat to 154. Covered...checked in 30 mins..and between 160 and 164!!!!! WTF? where did that come from? I am...

I can't purchase from NB since the acquisition. So what is the best (most affordable) online hbs now?:mug:

Hi Just curious, has this ever been done? I'm not talking 20bbl systems, but nano brewery 2bbl system or so? Sure loss in efficiency, but when you price out a 2/3bbl commercial brewery mashtun/kettle etc. it would take years (if not decades) for the loss in conversion efficiency to make up...

Greeting HBT! I have a part time dream job at a brewery. I work as a tour guide, when I'm not giving tours I'm tending bar. Sometime's the energy is great, the people are great and participate but sometimes the crowd is just ....Blah....no facial expressions, no laughter. Those are the...