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Here's what I brewed 9 days ago. This is my second parti gyle. What do you think? Mash ~ 22.00 lb Golden Promise (Simpsons) (2.0 SRM) 90.5 % 1.00 lb Barley, Flaked (1.7 SRM) 4.1 % 1.00 lb Light Carastan (15.0 SRM) 4.1 % 0.30 lb Acidulated (Weyermann) (1.8 SRM) 1.2 % Cap final...

This is a technique that I tried last year with great success. If you live in an area that experiences high temps of 30-40F max all winter, then you can take advantage of those temps and setup a lager/fermentation chamber at precise temps with natural cooling. Even if your high temps are above...

I found a 375 of Drie Fonteinen intense red kriek on a recent California trip. I think the bottle date was somewhere between 1 and 2 years old. Immediately after consumption I added a low gravity wort to the bottle w/ the dregs, added an airlock, and let it ferment for a couple of weeks. Then...

I'm looking for feedback on a RIS recipe I've been tweaking in beersmith the last couple of days. This will be my first, with the closest to a beer this big being a doppelbock I made last winter. The plan would be to brew this the week after next, keg in December, "sample" for a month, and...

I frequently see I/IPA and saison recipes with some sort of sugar adjunct for the purpose of drying out a beer. We know that mash temp can also be used to dry out a beer. Ignoring color and flavor contributions, and assuming each technique can achieve a desired OG and FG, how do these 2...

Has anyone used this? I could find very little in a search. I brewed a Berliner 4 days ago, pitched the pouch direct, and set the temp to 90F. Last night, after 4 days of no visible activity, I pulled a sample and there doesn't seem to be anything going on from the lacto. IBU's were kept...

Would you keg, force carb, and then bottle using a BMBF-like setup (Biermuncher bottle filler), or would you go the old priming sugar, bottling bucket, and wand type setup? One of the goals is to allow some graceful aging. I'm fairly confident with my keg bottling technique (cap on foam, good...

Please critique this approach. I have never brewed a beer with anything other than ale/lager yeast and malts. If you told me a month ago that I'd be planning a sour fruit beer I'd tell you no way in hell, but a few weeks ago my wife and I were on a recent trip to SF and were introduced to the...

On Wednesday night I brewed the AG Bell's Two Hearted clone found in the recipes area of this site. At 2am I pitched the yeast built up from Bell's Amber bottle dregs which I stepped up a few times to what I thought was a decent amount of yeast. My ferm fridge was last used for lagering, so...

Today is Monday. Last Thursday (4 days ago) I went to bottle a batch and my capper broke on beer 16 (about 2/3 of batch remained). The capper was complete non-functional at that point. I very lightly poured 4 beers back into the bottling bucket, trying not to oxygenate, then put all of the...