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Working with Okinawa's 80° tap water has convinced me to upgrade my wort chilling setup from the single immersion chiller I'm using now. I'm a BIAB brewer at the moment thinking about moving to a more "full-size" all grain setup someday down the road. The normal answer to the cooling problem...

Hey all, I'm considering a single-stage Dunkelweizen for my next batch. I'm pretty much stuck w/ a partial mash BIAB setup, so I've come up with the following... what do you think? 90 min boil with a wide array of crystal & light Munich malt, plus just a tad of black & chocolate mostly for...

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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it some more time and pretty much just keep doing what I've been doing...

Hey everyone, really frustrated, need some help. I'm a new extract brewer, maybe 10-15 batches experience so far. I have a recurring problem with beers failing to properly bottle-carbonate, which I thought I'd overcome but my most recent stout has done it again. I brewed this particular...

Thanks for the replies! I punted to using the S-04 and everything looks copacetic now - don't know if it'll taste "right" but it's a new recipe to me anyway. The "non-starter" is still sitting inert three days later. Color is dark amber with the yeast flocculated into a layer on the bottom...

Hi all, hoping to brew a ~1.045 stout this evening but I'm not sure I trust the yeast I want to use. Ordered the yeast (WLP-004, White Labs Irish Ale) from Midwest Supply on 3 March. Got it in the mail yesterday :( since sometimes it takes forever to get things out here on Okinawa... there...

I've heard about Oki Brew Company; there's some signs in town... Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately there's still a curfew on US troops; the current rule is 2 drinks max, and it has to be with dinner at a restaurant (not a "bar"). The rule is doing a lot of damage to the local economy...

Hello, HBT - I just created an account & thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a newbie to homebrewing, eagerly soaking up everything I can find about the hobby & trying to produce something drinkable in my kitchen. My experience so far includes one Mr. Beer kit (which came out pretty poorly)...