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I'm about 12 batches in and have used bottled spring water for every batch. Even got 2nd place in a pro-am for my 4th batch an ipa! I'm on city water and am tired of buying bottled water. Is it safe to use my city/tap water?? I know it's treated but what have your results been?

OK, I can't figure this one out and need some help. I'm trying to identify a proper yeast strain that will match this general description, which I was provided during the course of research recently conducted on a recipe I'm about to brew. The description: Use a high flocculating...

OK, I can't figure this one out and need some help. I'm trying to identify a proper yeast strain that will match this general description, which I was provided during the course of research recently conducted on a recipe I'm about to brew. The description: Use a high flocculating...

There is plenty of info out there on the characteristics of the Tripel, including it’s history, a few clone recipes and even a podcast or two – which all combined provide a good general overview of the brew process and profile for the Belgian tripel. From malts to yeast strains, even adding...

OG 1.083 on a 10 gal batch. 27.25 lbs pilsner 9.6 oz aromatic 9.6 oz biscuit 9.6 oz munich 20 2 lbs sugar 2 pie pumpkins, roasted in oven and the meat mashed with the grains. 90 min mash at 149. Hops were tettnang, willamette and saaz. I called 47 IBUs but I know I'll lose some in the process...

Swirled once to sink these bits and just found em again a couple hours later. Infected??

Beersmith indicates preboil gravity in my recipe to be 1.128 and post boil starting gravity to be 1.070. What I don't get is how can the gravity decline from preboil to post boil. It's counter intuitive to me, shouldn't it be the other way around?

OK - built a sparge assembly today to attach to the hose coming off my HLT. Total cost was $1.93. Ingredients for success: - Watts Nylon Hose Barb T Connector A-291 $1.93 - leftover high temp hose - small drill bit - drill - electricity - eyesight, one or both - hands or other...

So you've bottled. Bottle caps marked. Cased. Stored. Temperature reading adjusted. Calendar marked for prime readiness. Now you wait. But you don't want to wait. 1) use shorter more compact bottles. The pressure builds up faster and carbs these bottles sooner. 2) in your week 1 or 2 test...

-Newb. -Brewed batch 5/6 over the weekend. -10gal. -split into 2 fermenters. -Didn't hit my OG and knew it when I was putting the wort in the fermenters. -Didn't calculate for efficiency loss properly in my setup as I was trying to brew a semi-big beer. Should have more grains. -Occurred...

Here it is....will be splitting this into two batches, one under the supervision of WLP001 and the other under WLP002's supervions, so the high five can occur on multiple levels: Style: American IPA TYPE: All Grain Taste: 9,999.999 ------------ Amt Name...

Ok I need some help on this ipa. I tried brewing this again last yesterday and all signs point toward good things. However I tuned into some grain bill details today that confused me. Grains listed as this: Crystal Pale Munich Caramel Then I read this description today, of the same grains...

Green Flash bottles. Has me thinking on red stripe bottles, are they more stout than the GF bottles? I've read all the break downs on CO2 absorption theories and such, same space in a GF bottle compared to a normal longneck bottle but perhaps the GF bottle, due to its shorter profile, produces a...

I have two batches bottled and conditioning. A 3rd batch waiting to be bottled. 3 weeks in the bottle to carbonate and condition is standard from what I've read here. Then there's 4 to 6 days for the bottles to sit in the fridge or on ice in a cooler. Question here is: is the 4 to 6 days...

When bottling ipa's What are you favorite: A. Carbonation levels to aim for and B. priming agents to use From my simple research i was thinking 2.5 with corn sugar. But then again I have my first batches in fermenters right now and have never bottled before.

I blended two yeast strains together to create a super strain with desirable qualities from both?? Anyone ever try this, and if so what happened?

2 batches in so far. First two batches ever. All grain. IPA's are where my mind is at. I'm not one to take the easy route with things, I expect quality results and am of the thought that generally, any extra effort you give will produce quality results, and in the end the extra effort really...

OK, brewed my second batch last night, now I have two IPAs fermenting away. :ban: These two batches are my first attempts ever, so I am hoping to get some advice and some help on their upcoming dry hop schedules. Both are all grain batches and put about 5.5 gallons into the primaries. #1...

OK, brewed my second batch last night, now I have two IPAs fermenting away. :ban: These two batches are my first attempts ever, so I am hoping to get some advice and some help on their upcoming dry hop schedules. Both are all grain batches and put about 5.5 gallons into the primaries. #1...