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I’m new to water chemistry and hoping for some guidance. I’m planning to brew the AHA’s KBS clone this weekend, and I’m curious what my concentrations should be, as well as my mash ph. The recipe is here: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/kentucky-breakfast-stout/ I’ll be...

Hi all! I’m brewing my first kolsch this weekend and I was hoping you could give me some guidance on building a suitable water profile. My tap water doesn’t do well with pale beers, so I’ll be building it up from RO water. The recipe is simple: just 9 lbs of German Pilsner malt. I’m planning...

Very helpful, thank you for pointing me in the right direction! I see that EZ Water labels lactic acid at 88%. My phosphoric is 10%, could I just change the acid content box in EZ Water to 10%, bringing me to about 47 mL total? To rephrase: is an acid an acid an acid? Will using phosphoric or...

Hi all! Trying to figure out how to best build a water profile for an NE IPA. Here are the details: Water is 100% RO Additions I have on hand to add: sodium chloride, calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate, calcium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, phosphoric acid (not sure if I’ll...

I’m coming up on my fourth anniversary of brewing and one thing I’ve always lacked knowledge on is water chemistry. Put simply: I don’t get it. At all. Like an almost embarrassingly low fundamental knowledge. As if I slept through high school chemistry class entirely (which I may have). I was...

I could also probably sub in a Columbus if I had to, but I'd prefer to keep an ounce handy for the flavor component of my recipe.

Hi all! I made an oversight buying my hops and I'm planning to brew my NE IPA recipe tomorrow. Typically I use an ounce of magnum for my bittering hop (everything else post-boil), but I apparently forgot to buy them and my LHBS is closed now (grains are already crushed for brew day tomorrow). I...

I was wondering about how US-04 would work out. I've had some good experience with that yeast, just never for an IPA. I really don't have the time/equipment to really bother with liquid yeast, but it's tough to find much information on dry yeast equivalents for this style.

I hate to hijack this thread, but I've got a question on yeast choice for this style. I understand that most people recommend using Vermont or Conan, but a. I'm unable to procure these at my LHBS, and b. I primarily use dry yeast for a number of reasons. From what I gather, an English ale yeast...

I'm messing around with a new recipe tomorrow and I'm trying to decide between using a package of German Magnum or Columbus for my bittering hops. I've got enough of each where I can comfortably spare them, but I just want something smooth and in the background. I'm only planning to use one...

Hey everyone! I've been a homebrewer of beer for the last couple years but I recently came across a sale for the following mead and I decided to jump on it: http://www.northernbrewer.com/cherry-bomb-hydromel Outside of making Joe's Ancient Orange Mead I have no experience in mead-making or...

I'm planning to brew up the following Hopslam clone from Northern Brewer and I'm looking for help coming up with a decent water profile for my mash to really help the hops pop. I've had bad luck with my tap water before so I tend to use distilled or RO water and use a product like accumash or...

Out of curiosity, how long are your gas line lengths? Do you think a three foot long length would reach everything okay coming from the CO2 manifold? I'm looking at a product like this, for reference...

Wow, incredibly nice and clean build! I've been planning to build a keezer very soon and this thread gave me a lot of great info, and this size model might just fit my needs perfectly. Commenting for future reference, and thanks for posting!

To preface everything: Hi all, hope you had a fantastic Turkey Day! Now for the topic at hand. As you can tell from the title, I'm looking to purchase a couple new kegs. I'm relatively new to kegging and already have a used five gallon ball lock that I picked up from Midwest on sale, as well...

So I'm attempting my first kegging experience, and I've run into an issue I'm really hoping you all can help me out with. For reference, I have a five-gallon ball-lock corny keg that I bought used. I put new o rings on it and gave it a thorough cleaning, but now that everything's hooked up I'm...

That is the question. Pretty soon I'll be brewing up a kit from Northern Brewer (the Synchronocity Saison) which has five pounds of Weyermann pale wheat and three pounds of Pilsen malt for the bill. I've only made a few all grain batches before, and I can't say I've ever used wheat. The recipe...

Ah, thank you so much! I was hoping and figuring that that was the correct setting, but I didn't want to risk a batch of beer on a hunch. Thanks for the confirmation!

Hi all, I was hoping someone here might have some experience with or an answer to a question I have. With the temperatures beginning to drop in the Northeast, the time has come for me to heat my carboys/fermentation chamber. My question in particular involves the wiring of the Johnson A419...

Auto siphon makes life a lot easier, and racking the beer into your priming sugar to self-mix/swirl it is great. Also, keep paper towels on hand, trust me. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew