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What the largest volume of wort you (or someone you know) boiled on the stovetop with either gas or electric heat?

This may have been posted elsewhere...but check out this Popular Mechanics article on Homebrewing. http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/beer-recipes-how-to-home-brew?click=pm_news#fbIndex3 Way to go, Ed!

I had recently posted an issue I was having whereby and darker styles of beer I made had an "off' flavor to them. After some very helpful responses I was pointed in the direction of John Palmer's "How To Brew" - Chapter 15 where he discuss the minerals in water. I printed out the handy dandy...

So my father calls me the other night and proceeds to tell me that he works with a lady who, for whatever reason, grows her own hops. I told him that was pretty cool and to see if he could get any for me. A few days later, he lets me know that he has 3-1 gallon zip lock bags full of them...

Hello all! I've been brewing for a few years now and I've mainly stuck with the lighter-colored ales - blonde ales, pale ales, IPAs, etc. However, in each of the 3 darker beers that I've attempted to make (red ale, coffee stout and bock), each had what can be considered a harsh "sweetness"...

Hey all, I'm doing a late-day brew session today - a Belgian Dubbel. The guy at my LHBS suggested that I add the 1 lb. liquid dark belgian candi sugar after the krausen falls back into the wort or even during secondary. My question is: how does one determine OG if sugar is added AFTER...

I was brewing a blonde ale today and when all was said and done, I put the hydrometer sample tube in the freezer to cool it down so that I could take an accurate reading. The problem was that I forgot about it until a few hours later. When I finally remembered what had happened, I got the tube...

Hey all here's my situation: I purchased the partial mash AHS Coffee Malt Stout kit and decided to trick it up with some extra grains. My final recipie ended up being this: 5.5 lbs Marris Otter .75 lbs Crystal 80 .75 lbs Coffee Malt .50 lbs Chocolate Malt .25 lbs Crystal 40 .13 lbs...

Hey all here's my situation: I purchased the partial mash AHS Coffee Malt Stout kit and decided to trick it up with some extra grains. My final recipie ended up being this: 5.5 lbs Marris Otter .75 lbs Crystal 80 .75 lbs Coffee Malt .50 lbs Chocolate Malt .25 lbs Crystal 40 .13 lbs...

Hello Everyone! I just thought I'd share an experience that I had tonight. To give you some background, I've been brewing for a few years now. I have a number of very tasty partial mash batches under my belt (and some more on the way). I have been using the stovetop partial mash technique...

Hello all! I was hoping to solicit some advice on my pumpkin ale. The recipe called for a OG of 1.052. I hit this mark exactly. The beer sat in primary for 14 days. I then transferred it to a secondary for clearing. I took a reading and the corrected figure was 1.020 (1.018 @ 79 degrees...

For those of you who have converted a 5 or 10 gallon cooler using this thread (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/cheap-easy-10-gallon-rubbermaid-mlt-conversion-23008/) I have a question for you: Should the brass nipple fit snug into the pre-drilled hole of the cooler? I purchased the exact...

The carbonation in all of my batches to date has been rather odd. What I mean by that is when the beer is poured, the head is made up of extremely fine bubbles which take a long time to subside. It's not the "crisp" bubbly kind of carbonation I would expect, rather it's more like a creamy...

Hey all! I'm going to be brewing a mini-mash AHS Pumpkin Ale tomorrow, but as I was reading over the instructions, I had a quick question. The recipe has 3.5 lbs of grain and calls for it to be mashed in 2 1/2 gallons of water. If my math is correct, this works out to be 2.85 qts of water...

Greetings all! I had a quick question about adding fruit concentrate (or extract) to my beer. My wife bought be me a extract kit for Christmas. It's called "Berry Beer" and came with 4 oz. of an raspberry "extract". The recipe doesn't say how much to use. Has anyone had any experience...

This is the 2nd batch in a row when my calibrated OG is WAY higher than what the recipe states it should be. This time it was with a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale clone recipe. The OG estimate was 1.069. I plugged in all my ingredients into Beersmith and this number was confirmed. However, I...

I came home from work today to quite a site! My 6.8 gallon carboy was FILLED to the brim with Krausen! I've never gotten such vigorous fermentation like this before. The wort is beginning to bubble right through the airlock (see picutres). Should I be concerned? What, if anything, do I need...

My first batch has been in bottles for nearly 3 weeks now. About 2 weeks after bottling, I opened one up to give it a taste. It was good! I could detect a good amout of hoppiness and a bit of malt flavor. It was flat, though, having only been in the bottle for a shortened time. However, on...

Hey all.... I racked my latest batch over top of 49oz. of Oregon Apricot puree this evening and noticed that the fruit was not mixing as well with the beer as I thought it was going to. It's just kind of sitting there on the bottom of the fermentor. Should I have warmed it up prior to...

I'm going to be doing an Apricot ale for my next batch. I've searched around and found a lot of extract-only recipes. I really wanted to try another partial mash, so I came up with the following. What do you think? 1/2 lb. Wheat Malt 1/2 lb. Dextrine Malt 1/2 lb. Crystal Malt - 20L 6...