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Has any one had any problems with high FG? Debating on using it for the first time on a 1.065 ish OG and my calculations are coming up with an FG of 1.020 which is too sweet for a 6% pale.

As anyone brewed with Zythos or Falconers Flight? I have 2 oz of each, brewing tomorrow APA/ mild ale. Never tried these hops. Also using hop extract for bittering "hopshot" first try on that also. Any feed back would be appreciated.

Made a starter last night, 2 pints water/ cup of LDME. There is a tiny krausen, the weakest I've seen in my starters and it looks like the yeast dropped out rather quick. Is this typical for Cal Ale? Never used it before.

When my last IPA was transferred, I collected 3 cups of US-05 slurry yeast cake. It's in a mason jar in the fridge and I want to make a starter with it for my next brew day. I have no experience washing or rinsing yeast, how much should I use to start my starter for an AG pale ale? It will be my...

Brewed a Hefe AG kit from NB, OG was supposed to be 1.049, came out to 1.032 with 5.25ish gallons of wort after boil. 5.5# weyermans German Pale Wheat malt 4# German Pilsner I used Brew Pal for IPhone since there are no strike/ sparge calculations in the instructions. 10g Home Depot mash tun...

Had a vile of WLP 300 sitting out for a few hours so I can make a starter. (starter is 2 pints and 1 cup of light DME) when I was done cooling the wort, the vile was at room temp and I shook it up to loosen up the yeast stuck on the bottom and sides of the vile. I slowly opened the cap ( knowing...

Is there a way to brew a 5 gallon All G batch without doing a full boil? I have a 5g kettle, and a keggle but no way to chill the wort in a keggle yet. Still adding cold water jugs from the store or ice bath with the kettle.

I am going to brew my first partial mash tomorrow. 5g batch 2lbs dom. 2-row malt 1.5 lbs white wheat 8oz of Munich 10 3.3 wheat LME/ WHITE labs American Heff yeast (And 2 oz Hallertau that I may not use) I'm going to make a wheat IPA somehow. I also have 4oz of Amarillo pellet and 4 oz of...

I have Ferocious IPA from Midwest kegged right now and carbed up. After dry hopping from the instructions, I went and threw an ounce of Amarillo 10% AA in the mix (because I love Amarillo hops) and I have a very dry and bitter after taste, I now know I screwed up and over did it, but can I do...

Is the OG based on the 2.5g of Wort, or the Wort mixed with top off water before pitching? So e.g. the recipe says 1.084 OG, is that the Wort mixed with the 2.5 to 3 g of water or before? A lot of posters including myself have been coming up with a lower than targeted OG for some reason, but my...

I have an APA racked to a carboy dry hopping right now on week 2. I forgot to use the Irish moss I bought in the boil, can I do anything to clear it up at this point? (5g batch)

Tomorrow I plan on brewing Ferocious IPA from Midwest Supply, I got this smack pack they offered with the recipe. I've never used a smack pack before or a liquid yeast for that matter. I'm nervous about it since it was shipped and don't know how high the temps may have gotten. The OG is supposed...

OG is supposed to be : 1.051-1.055 I read :1.040-1.042 on 2 diff Hydrometers. Wort was mixed very well in primary w/ top up water. Steep 1lb. Caramel 20L Rolling boil add 1 of 2 3.3lb. Of light LME. Add bitt hops, boil 40 mins Add remaining 3.3 of LME and boil 15 mins Add aroma hops boil 5 mins...

Brewers best kit, anyone ever brew this? Anything you would change? I will be dry hopping and got US-05 to use instead of Nottingham.

I have an amber ale that is kegged, it was force carbed at 30 psi and sat in the fridge for 4 days before tapping. I had nice head 2 days ago and now its not really there today at all. What happened? Still tasted good and still is carbonated.

I siphoned carboy to keg and am leaving the keg in the fridge for 24 hrs. I did not put any cO2 in the keg. So tomorrow I will hook up the cO2 when force carbing. Is this correct? Is it fine just locking the lid after filling it and putting it in the fridge? Also, once it is carbed, can I take...

Do you need to use priming sugar if you are going to force carb a keg? Do you need to use priming sugar at all when kegging, force carb or not?

I have an Amber Ale in a glass carboy right now, I may be botteling next weekend. There is still some crushed grains floating around in there and I did not strain when I went from kettle to primary. What can I do to make this beer as clean as possible going into the botteling bucket? With out...

Th instructions are pretty vague, don't know when I'm supposed to put the flaked wheat and flaked oats in. Do they go in the muslin bag with the crushed 2 row pale malt? And the spice pack, do I just dump it in the Wort, or bag it.