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Using Beersmith to attempt making my own simple hefe recipe....wife loves hacker pschorr. Trying to use the app I just start with my equipment, then select profile to set standard variances, and start adding ingredients. 5lb Best Pilsner 5lb GWM White Wheat 6.4oz Cara-Pils...

I did Beersmith's Easy Cream Ale recipe using East Coast Ale WLP008. As I read this is a top fermenter, and as then expected that's what I got. A good strong fermentation on top, leaving a densely packed krausen that almost looked like styrofoam floating on top. So, after 2 weeks and still...

I recently did a blue moon clone that I mistakenly racked into secondary after a violent day of ferment because I didn't have a blowoff. I let that finish for two weeks then kegged and keezered at 40. Beer tastes "green" and I was thinking should I pull this from the keezer and let it sit at...

Evening all.... I'm thinking of trying the honey orange wheat recipe from beersmith and I just noticed the mash sequence is 148 for 45 mins. In the past it seemed l like recipes I've downloaded from the cloud had several errors in them or were recipes people never even attempted. So with...

Is there an acceptable method to make an adequate starter out of only 1 11.5 oz dry yeast pack? I screwed up ordering and I wanted to start a zombie dust clone and only have 1 s-04 packet....malty recommends 1.2. Is there a way to compensate such as a larger starter?

This must have been answered somewhere else but a search for this brings up hundreds of corn sugar threads with nothing about the when. Doing a cream ale with corn sugar and my thinking was to add it to the boil at 0 rather than mash it and run it through the grain in sparge? Is adding at...

Is this a lot of krausen for an east coast ale starter?

Need a bit of help here... Did a blue moon clone the other day, never got a hot break or cold break. Not much left in boil pot. Now I've got a blown airlock with dried foam almost like cement and the entire airspace in the carboy is filled with this semisolid foam now that's not going down on...

Anyone ever do last minute hop additions then freeze and reuse the same hops in late fermentation? Was just wondering if anyone's tried this or if there's nothing left of the oils after the quick hot dip, that and if freezing them and reading them later again would add anything more to the...

Anyone out here used a seal-a-meal to seal up aluminized mylar bags for storage? I'm thinking of a larger purchase of a few different hops and using some aluminized mylar bags and CO2 to store them in the freezer and was checking if anyone's ever tried sealing these bags with a standard seal a...

After some thorough reading and videos I'm still at a loss as to how one can oversparge while flysparging. To my thinking, if your strike and sparge temps are correct why would you need more water than the recipe calls for, and if that's correct how can you oversparge? Isn't efficiency a...

Ok this is getting nearly obsessive for me now. I'm trying to do a 10 gallon igloo tun completely in stainless using a ss nipple between the bulkhead and elbow down to the bottom. Who here's done it and exactly what parts did you use? I wanted to go with the aih bottom but it's not necessary...

Just a quick one, does the barb size on the back of the shank matter between 3/16 and 1/4 when your line is 3/16 and the barb on the keg is 3/16? Question is more about foaming possibility... although once it hits the nipple the size increases anyway, just didn't wanna create a foaming...

About to order a 20lb tank and it has the handle. Anyone else have one of these and does the handle block putting the regulator on the tank or do I have to get a high pressure hose and mount the reg somewhere else?

In designing the keezer I'm now at the point of determining hose length to purchase. At the most I'll never have more than 6 kegs going at one time with the tank outside the keezer. So I got the point that in a 14.8 freezer I go with 3/16" hose. What I don't get is, I seriously doubt everyone...

I'm looking at a Kenmore 16082 and was wondering if anyone's modded this or a similar board to control temps and the alarm in the range we use for kegging?

Well along with a ton of help from HBT and a lotta youtubing/bookreading I'm making the decision to jump right into All Grain right off the bat. Have a question tho: Was going the route of dual cooler system and fly sparging. Question is, how are we keeping the temps exactly where we want...

Evening folks! I'm new, never brewed a batch in my life, and I wanna start from the pro tee because I have enough time to invest in this right the first time around. I wanna start with equipment first (backwards), pricing freezers and going straight to kegging as I'm lazy and don't wanna...