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I'm trying to figure out what to do to deal with hop debris in an upcoming extremely hoppy DIPA batch that I'm designing. I'm planning to use a total of 12 oz of pellet hops in the boil and hop stand, plus another 6 oz dry hopping. I want to get 6 gallons of wort into my 6.5 gallon better...

This is inspired by Evil Twin Hop Flood, which I had this summer and thought was fantastic. I haven't found any recipes and Evil Twin doesn't post much info on ingredients. I'd be stoked to get any comments or recommendations. Hoppy Amber Ale Targets: Batch size: 6 gal into fermenter...

I have a question on harvesting yeast from cans. Typically I have a friend and his wife come over and we drink a 4-pack and I harvest the yeast from the 4 cans all at once. I'm on a schedule for brew day and don't have anyone available to help with consuming the beer, so I'm thinking of using...

I've got a batch of APA that despite best efforts ended up with a lot of hop debris in the bottles. The bottles are gushers and the beer is very carbonated....makes you burp after each gulp. I made sure fermentation had ended and used a measured amount of priming sugar as indicated from an...

I've been trying to rid my beers of twang so I decided to try a water bath. My thermometer read 70 F when I turned off the wort chiller, so I went ahead and oxygenated and pitched my yeast. I then put the carboy into a water bath that came up about 1/2 way to the top of the carboy, filled with...

I'm culturing Conan yeast from Heady Topper cans based on this website: http://frostmountainbrewandwine.blogspot.com/2013/06/clone-conan-yeast-from-heady-topper.html The instructions on the site say to start the process about two weeks before you plan to use the yeast. So I've stepped it...

I've been plagued with 'homebrew twang' and desparately want to eliminate it. I've been researching it a bit, but unfortunately 'googling' for a solution seems to only produce forum threads with no precise solution offered. Opinions on what causes HBT are all over the board. Even describing...

I'm wondering how different different peoples' ability to taste is. Here's where I'm coming from: My neighbor and I both enjoy craft beer and we've started homebrewing. We often compare tasting notes on the beers we try. Recently there have been two times when I was able to discern a...

I received delivery of my ingredients from an online store and found the 2 yeast packs they shipped are over 2 months old. According to MrMalty and Brewersfriend, that equates to about 47% viability and for the 5.5 gal/1.087 batch I'm planning, I'll need to pitch both packs into ~ 3L starter or...

I just brewed my second batch - first all grain. Its a Zombie Dust clone attempt and it came out good, but the beer has very little body. Seems like water with some malt flavoring and lots of hops. I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong. Here's the recipe: Malts 12 lbs 2-Row 1 lb...

I'm looking for a critique of this. I want to brew a big porter without any flavorings (i.e. vanilla, bourbon, smoke)...just the basics. I want it very dark, fairly heavy malt and somewhat on the sweet side, but with enough bitterness to balance. I estimate my efficiency at about 65% using a...