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I want to follow up on this. After doing some more thinking, I decided to brew a big, barleywine style ale instead of an IPA. My wife is due with our first in a week so my thinking was that I should brew something that could be left alone for some time. My IPAs always taste a bit better to me...

Hello, I brewed up a Scottish style ale that finished a little high (1.030) due to mash temp being too high. My friend convinced me to throw in some Brett C. and leave it in secondary for a year - I did so but now I have some questions: 1) We picked a year as the timeframe just from doing...

Kingwood, Thanks a ton I think that suggestion helped me out. I will use the warrior and galena for bittering in a 5 gallon batch, mix up the rest, toss half at 0 min and the rest in secondary. Definitely going with the 14 lbs plus victory malt bill. I will brew this in April looks like and...

Hi, Well probably just some kind of pale ale or IPA. I am totally open to suggestions. Earlier today I calculated the weighted average AA of all the hops to be 9.5% if I mixed then together if that helps. Dave

Hello everyone, my wife is just starting her third trimester of our first child, and as such I am trying to get in as many brew days as possible between now and our due date. I've been throwing together recipes here and there, most of them smaller batches, and I have wound up with the following...

I have been doing something similar for the last couple batches. I mash/sparge/boil all in my 10 gallon kettle. First I mash using 0.125 qts / lb of grain using a large, fine-mesh bag. Then I drain out that wort into a cooler and batch sparge. That gets drained to the cooler as well. I...

Got it, I will be keeping the boil / mash times along with the hop intervals and only adjusting the weight / volume of the other ingredients in tandem with the water volume adjustment. Really appreciate it, Dave

Hey everyone, I was going to get my hands on some 1gallon glass jugs to do some sub-5 gallon batches. I understand the scalability of the ingredients, but what about boil times? For instance, if a recipe called for 10oz of hops in a 5gal batch, you would need 2oz in a 1 gallon batch...

Just thought I'd chime in here on the 8 gal vs 10 gal kettle as I was grappling with this same decision about two months ago. I ended up going with a 10 gal pot with thermometer and ball valve ... I have zero regrets. I think with an 8 gal kettle you're going to risk boil overs, but an...

I gotcha, so my 48 hour crash was just about the same as what you're doing, give or take. Thanks! -Dave

Just curious, how long do you keep the secondary cold in your tub? Mine was in the sink for a couple days and it seems to be fine. Dave

Christ, just when I thought I was just about done buying equipment. Ok well thank you for letting me know that this problem may not be due to anything I am causing. I will continue to monitor this beer As it ferments and let you know the outcome. Thanks, Dave

In the few months I've been brewing, I can definitely taste the difference between ale fermented in the high 60's vs. the low 60's - so this technique definitely helps out during the primary too just like you indicate!

Yes, that's exactly right. I just drained the water and racked from the carboy sitting right in the sink to the bottling bucket on the floor. Just about as still as can be.

Thanks, indeed I'll give a post-mortem after this fermentation is finished. Won't be for a couple of weeks yet, but will let you know how it goes. Dave

Amanda, Thanks for the reply. That makes a lot of sense. I also understand why you recommend retiring the fermenter - but I was uncertain whether or not fermenters actually "go bad" or not. I just got my stir plate in the mail today, it's big starters from here on out if not dry packets...

Draw - Thanks for the reply, interesting thought on the cider. Next time I talk to the previous owner I'll inquire about that. I pitched the 1056 when the temp of the wort was 70, I tried to make sure it was cool enough not to shock the little suckers into submission. In retrospect, I...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share something that I did with my last beer that really worked for me and I hope it may work for others. I don't have a fridge that I can use for cold crashing, but in my basement I do have a pretty good sized sink. I can easily get a 5 gallon glass carboy in there...

Good evening all, First of all I want to say that this forum has been a hugely helpful resource to me – I’ve been brewing since this past 4th of July and I don’t know where I’d be without this place. A hearty THANK YOU! I have a curious problem going on whenever I brew a beer in a...