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Hey guys! I just bottled my first centennial blonde with nottingham yeast. I let the beer ferment for 3 weeks and FG was 1.008 so I'm pretty sure it was done fermenting. Brew temperature was 70 degree fahrenheit. My batch size was 18 liters (4.7 gallons), and I was looking to get at least 16...

Hi guys! I have a white, plastic fermenter which I have to use in a room with lights on most of the day. There are no windows so sunlight won't be a problem. I've heared sunlight makes beer skunky, but what about light bulb light? And is this even an issue with a plastic fermenter bucket? You...

Hi guys! I'm trying to figure out what people are talking about when they mention their efficiency. I did my first all grain biab and my preboil efficiency was 70%, is this about normal for no-sparge biab? However, I had some serious trub losses (I was trying to avoid trub too much), and my...

I do stovetop biab, and the maximum volume of wort I'm able to boil is around 4 and a half gallons. I'm thinking about brewing a 4½ gallon batch by starting the boil with that volume and then near the end of the boil I would just top up all the boil-off losses. I would probably dunk -sparge...

Hey guys! I'm looking for a recipe for a simple, cheap, light and low bitterness lawn-mowing ale. Something to make my lager -drinking friends happy. I brew all grain biab. Do you have any suggestions? I'm having a hard time searching for a recipe, since I don't even know what style this brew...

Hi guys! I just brewed my first all grain biab bach. It is a wheat beer, based on this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/vixen-weizen-bavarian-hef-1st-place-german-wheat-2011-hbt-contest-240710/ , only my yeast was Wyeast 3056 Bavarian Wheat Blend. It has been fermenting for little...

Hi! I Just had my first biab brewday, and i had a problem with separating trub from the brewpot. I tried whirlpooling and letting it sit for 20 minutes, but it didn't really work. I didn't want any trub in my fermenter so I ended up losing 2 litres (1/2 gallons) from my 12 liter (3 gallons)...

Hey guys! Is there any way to get a bottle of carbonated homebrew without the sediment? :confused: I realize you can't carbonate beer without getting the sediment, so what I'm looking for is a (cheap) way to get the already carbonated beer into new bottles leaving the sediment behind. Could...

If I'm able to boil 5 gallons of water with my stove and a 6 gallon pot, does that mean I can bring the same amount of wort to boil? Or does boiling wort take more energy?

Hi! I'm about to brew a coopers ipa and im looking to improve it. I'm thinking about brewing it with DME, cascade hops (hop tea + dry hopping?), Wyeast 1056 and possibly some crystal malt. Does this sound ok? Should i add some other hops too or will the cascade hops do the trick? I'm...

Hi guys! :mug: I'm pretty much a beginner. I have only made coopers kits so far, and now I'm thinking about taking the next step with my brewing. I was thinking about making an IPA, using a recepie including unhopped malt extract, special grains and hops. The problem is, I don't have a...

Hi! I'm about to brew a coopers australian pale ale, and i'm just wondering what kind of fermentables would give me the best result. I'm looking to make a beer about 5% abv. I have 1kg (2.2lbs) of light dry malt extract, and the rest would be dextrose. If i use all the dme, how much sugar...

Hi! I might be seriously overreacting, but i'll ask anyway.. :D I just finished bottling a coopers lager -kit. The instructions said that the FG should be 1.004, and mine was 1.006. I had it ferment for 7 days, and i know now i should have taken 2 hydrometer readings to know for sure if the...