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I know this subject has been discussed all over the forum but I'm trying to determine the best course of action for my particular circumstance. I brewed the Northern Brewer kit and pretty much followed these steps: 1) Soaked 3 oz of oak cubes in 16 oz of Maker's mark during primary...

I wanted to try and brew the recipe below but I'm really confused by the mash schedule. I think what it says is to mash for an hour at 148 degrees and then mash out at 202 (seems high), leave for 15 minutes then drain. Recirculate ?? times until clear then final sparge with 172 degree water...

I brewed the following recipe a couple weeks ago but my OG was only 1.075 after the boil instead of before as the recipe says. Since then I have educated myself on all the possible things I did wrong (which were many). So having missed the OG by 13 points and the beer at this point finishing...

Finally got my chest freezer converted to be a fermentation chamber and decided to try and brew a schwarzbier. Bought two packets of Saflager w34/70 and rehydrated. Put wort in the chamber and started to cool it down to 50 degF. Let the yeast rehydrate at room temperature until the wort was...

I was making a starter with WLP051 California Ale for an American IPA with an OG of 1.060. I've only done this once before but the last one didn't spew like this one. I now know everything I did wrong (letting of pressure before shaking, using a funnel, etc) but now I am concerned whether I...

Just received the kit and it is a little ambiguous about adding hops. It came with 1 oz cascade for bittering 60 minute boil and 1 oz cascade for aroma last 2 minutes of boil. Some people cut the bittering in half but I'm not sure I want to do that. Only exception would be what a late LME...

I have a NB American Wheat going right now that I racked to the secondary a week ago with about 3 lbs of frozen raspberries. I’m reading a lot of different opinions on how long it should stay in the secondary before bottling. Some say a week or two and others say months. Fermentation is done...

First post although I have referred to this great site many times. I have a NB American Wheat in the primary now. Instructions say two weeks in the primary then bottle. My thought was to wait until fermentation complete (probably this weekend) and then rack off about half of it to a carboy...