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I've some questions about improving the hop aroma of my beers. I'm not sure if it's the techniques I'm using or the quantity of hops, but I tend to have very little hop aroma in the finished beer. I want my beer to smell the same as when I stick my nose in a bag of cascade pellets...

Good idea or bad idea? To save time with my bottling in the morning I'm thinking of boiling the priming solution the night before. I can then store it in my fridge in a sanitised container. Or am I just running the risk of infection in order to save myself 20-30 mins?

I'm wondering if the size of the hop bags I'm using make much of a difference when I dry hop my beers. I'll usually dry hop with about 50g/1.7oz for 5-7 days. The hop bags I use are a little on the small size, about 11cm x 10cm (4" x 4") and the pellets usually soak up a lot of wort/beer and...

Just brewed a new batch and I'm worried I over boiled the wort. I usually boil about 10L with hops and DME then add LME at the end. Today when I boiled the DME I started with about 8L or so. After the hour at least half of it had evaporated. The OG at the end was very low (about 1.03) so I'm...

I'm currently brewing my fifth all extract ale and I got a very low OG considering the amount of fermentables added. 20L brew 1.7kg Blackrock Pale Ale kit 1.5kg extra light LME 500g extra light DME I expected something in the region of 1.050 but my hydrometer only read 1.036. DME was added...