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Brewing a vanilla milkshake IPA. In the past when I've used vanilla beans I split, scraped, chopped and soaked in vodka and then added to the primary with descent results. With the price of vanilla beans going up and looking for more of a stronger vanilla flavor I was looking at trying vanilla...

Imperial Sweet Stout 5.75gallons in fermentor OG: 1.091 Mash @ 157degrees: 15lbs 12oz - Pale Ale 1lb 2oz - Caramel 40L 1lb 2oz - Chocolate 9oz - Black Malt Boil: 1lb 2oz - Lactose Milk Sugar (15mins) 110grams - Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (15mins) Pitched 1.25L starter with 3smack packs of...

Brewhouse Efficiency: 72% Malt Bill: 10lbs Briess 2-Row Brewers Malt 1lb Briess Flaked Oats 6oz Gambrinus Honey Malt Mash 60mins @ 152'F Hop Schedule: 5ml Hopshot (10%) Boil 60mins .5oz Citra (12%) Boil 10mins 1oz Citra (12%) Whirlpool 40mins 1oz Amarillo (9.2%) Whirlpool 40mins 1oz Citra...

Brewed Trillium's Sleeper Street clone from BYO. Recipe called for a technique I haven't tried before. After only 5 days of fermenting in the carboy it said to transfer to a keg and dry hop under pressure for about a week and then do a keg to keg transfer to serving keg and carbonate. I've never...

Built a spunding valve off of the specs from homebrewfinds.com They listed this pressure relief valve off of amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GDY3CU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I bought it, but unfortunately didn't read the reviews before I bought it. The psi marks on the...

Brewed a clone of Deschutes Fresh Squeezed and scored at 41/50 and good reviews from the judges. Have another comp next week so decided to try it again. Felt that the first batch could have used a slight hop boost so I upped the whirlpool hops from 1oz of Citra and 1oz of Mosaic to 1.5 of each...

So I was brewing a clone of Lawson's Double Sunshine yesterday and was teaching a buddy who never brewed before. Got distracted explaining everything to him and had some major brain farts. Essentially I added to much water to my batch sparge, rushed the sparge as well, forgot to add the corn...

Upgraded from a 5cu ft to 15cu ft chest freezer for by kegs (5cu ft becomes the fermentation chamber). I have the a temp probe from a Johnson Digital Temp Controller fed through the bottom drain hole of the 15cu ft freezer that runs through some insulation foam in the hole to keep it plugged...

Built a three tier stand awhile ago from spare lumber. It is kind of weathered now from being outside. The new garage is almost done and will be the new brewery so it will be out of the elements. I want to spruce it up so I was going to sand it down and give it a nice coat of paint. Anyone have...

I've read and listened to Palmer talk about brewing water as much as I can lately. One thing I hear him talk about a lot is making your water profile consistent throughout the brewing process. I usually use his spreadsheet, but I started to look at some other ones and I like Bru'n Water, but am...

So according to Gordon Strong's new book he is big on adding all of your dark roasted grains during vorlauf instead of in the mash. I understand his thinking behind this and then my brewing buddy brought up a good point, "adjust your water minerals when doing this". So, I use Palmer's...

Been going through the Nugget Nectar threads and thought I'd start a fresh thread. I went through the recipes posted on here and went off of what the Troegs Brothers said on the Brewing Network and the malt/hop list they post for it on their website and came up with this recipe. Brewing this...

Just brewed a clone of Russian Rivers Hill 2 Row 56 Pale Ale and it called for a flameout addition of 1oz of Simcoe. Using Beersmith calculated it should steep for 10mins to reach the proper IBU extraction and then I started to run the wort through my counterflow chiller which took about...

Just brewed a clone of Russian Rivers Hill 2 Row 56 Pale Ale and it called for a flameout addition of 1oz of Simcoe. Using Beersmith calculated it should steep for 10mins to reach the proper IBU extraction and then I started to run the wort through my counterflow chiller which took about 20mins...

My wife got 1 gallon of fresh pressed cider from the local orchard in her home town. Made a small starter, about 8oz of the cider with 1 pack DYW05 Dry Wine Yeast - Champagne (5 g). It had some small bubbling, made a nice cake and I pitched it into the rest of the gallon with 4oz of corn...

I have an official Hop Stopper that came with a copper dip tube for my 15gallon Polarware Kettle. I just got a new Keggle to be my new brew kettle and the Polarware is now my HLT. I'm leaving the copper dip tube in the Polarware. Now the keggle came with it's own SS dip tube that hop stopper...

I have a 15gallon Polar Ware flat bottom kettle. Right now I have the Hopstopper and have gravity feed the kettle into a counter flow chiller to the carboy. As of right now I'm leaving approximately 1.6gallons behind in the kettle. I want to make my system as efficient as possible and...

Taking a poll for my next batch. I got 3oz of Simcoe sitting in the freezer waiting to be brewed! What's everyone's favorite recipe to use Simcoe hops? Commercial clones or your own creations all welcome. Cheers

Stone Pale Ale clone, 1.054, 60seconds of Oxygen with a stone and pitched with Wyeast 1968 on a stir plate for 36hours. 12 hours after pitching and it looks like this. I've used White Labs 002 and never saw anything like this. Anyone else get this before?

So I had some construction done on the house and they needed to build a temporary wall. I paid for all the lumber so when they tore it down I thought, why not? Lets build a brewstand! Anyone have any suggestions for wheels for this thing? The legs are 2x4s and the caster wheels I see on Home...