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Hey all... I'm looking to make an American Brown as my next beer. For anyone living in St. Louis, I'm trying to get something close to The Civil Life's American Brown. I've never built a recipe before, so I borrowed most of Northern Brewers Caribou Slobber recipe, but have substituted the...

I'm making a Chinook IPA (Northern Brewer extract kit). I racked to secondary after 8 days (been in secondary for 6 days now) and am getting ready to dry hop for 10 days before bottling. This will be my first time, so I ask: To keep the pellet gunk out of the beer, I would guess I need to use a...

Just received my Wyeast smack pack in the mail from NB. I can't tell if it's already been "smacked" in transit. The pouch is definitely a bit inflated, but as a jungle it around it feels like whatever "pack" thing that is in there is still solid. But the last thing I want to do is brew my 4th of...

So I've got to ask, is it me? I've got my beer thief, but i can barely get any beer when using it to fill my test tube for gravity readings. I suppose it may just be normal, but with all the emphasis on being sanitary, the fewer times I need to go in and out of the beer the better. Any...

OK, hopefully this is an easy one. I cleaned my equipment in a big bucket of BPW after bottling on Sunday and after a few hours of soaking, I dried what I could. I hung my rubber tubes to dry, and still today (3 days) they aren't dry! What am I doing wrong? What is the best way to clean and...

Hi all. Just brewed my first beer using Northern Brewers deluxe kit. Irish Red Ale extract kit. My boil went great. Sanitized everything with Starsan, aerated in a glass carboy and pitched yeast. Transferred to the basement and encased in a box to keep it dark. The next day I had good bubbles...