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Look okay? I was thinking i might use lager yeast on half the batch. IrishRedAle - Irish Red Ale (9D) ================================================================================ Batch Size 11.000 gal Boil Size 12.250 gal Boil Time 1.000 hr Efficiency 70%...

So... still trying to figure out the best time to do my hop additions. I have been brewing mostly pales and ipas for the last year and i am getting close to being happy enough with them to move on to a new style :). Early on everything was coming out way way too bitter. (Even sent a pale ale...

Wanting to move up to 10 gallon batches and my round cooler is not big enough. Anyone have any advice on a good rectangular cooler? Batch sparge only. Looks like everyone likes the 70qt coleman extreme? Any other cheaper options that insulate well? Thanks!

So, my wife's favorite beer is modelo especial. I have found plenty of the negra recipes but no so much on the especial. I have tried a few vienna lagers, some of which were good, others not so much, but none were quite like the especial. I found this on brewtoad...

Hello all. Well this is a first for me. Did an IPA with my home grown hops (also a first for me.). I have been using bells yeast, and it has always done great for me, this was a second generation. I almost didnt pitch this yeast because the starter smelled a bit sour, but tasted okay. At...

Hi all. Did a vienna lager, (this was my 2nd lager ever) and i just had a taste, it has been lagering for about 2 weeks now in kegs. Very smooth and happy with it overall, but it does seem a little sweet. (Even wife said it was "malty".) Below is the recipe, maybe too much crystal?. Just...

First year growing hops (southwest ohio). I bought the plants from Great Lakes Hops, 2 Cascade, 2 Centennial, 2 Chinook, and 1 Magnum. Planted in early spring. I made the ropes about 19' tall. The Cascades both grew about 17-18' and have pretty much quit there. They both have hops on them...

Wife and kids left for the weekend so been enjoying my time alone :) Went fishing yesterday and we got a mess of saugeye and bluegill. Nothing like fresh fish and homebrew!!

I have been using a homemade counterflow chiller which works great, but it has 1/4" copper and takes forever to fill the carboys. In addition, it is bulky and i have not figured out the best way to mount it. I was looking at something like this...

So after making about 10 various pale ales and IPAs that I always found to be too bitter i finally entered a beer into a contest to get some feedback. The beer I entered was a pale ale, magnum bittering for 60min, cascade/citra at 20, 5 and dryhop. I don't have the amounts with me, but...

Just trying to figure out what happened on my last brew. Using a round 10gal cooler, same grain bill i have used maybe 3 or 4 times in the past. I have always hit my target mash temp within 1 degree or so. This time i was shooting for 152 and after stirring in I was at 160. I added some cold...

Hello all. So i have done about 15 all grain batches now, and no matter what i do, my pale ales / ipa's are all ending up with the same lingering bitterness that says on the back of my tongue forever. Some of these are clones, and others my own recipes. I have done a couple of blondes, and...

So, trying to figure out if i wanna go with a chinook/cascade pairing, or cascade/citra for a pale ale im doing tomorrow. (And same question for an IPA next week). What do you all think? :mug:

So from my original water report i had Bicarbonate, HCO3 331. I assumed that an RO system would take care of this, which i just finished installing and Im waiting for a good brew day. I have been seeing various threads where people are saying the RO system only cut the bicarbonate levels in...

Hi all! So, after a discouraging water report i decided to buy a 5 stage RO system. Hope to have it installed by this weekend but in the mean time have been trying to figure out how to adjust for a pale ale. I am attempting to use the ez water calculator spreadsheet. I left all of the...

Okay, so i got my ward water report back, below is what it says. Up till now i have just been treating with a campden tablet. I entered the below values into the EZ Water Calculator Spreadsheet and according to it, my ph is just a little high. Do you think i can get by using this water with...

So, i was hoping to enter a competition or two in hopes of getting some good feedback on a couple of my beers. (Unfortunately i dont have much time so I dont belong to any local clubs, and most of my friends drink light lagers so up till now, i am my only critic :) Anyways, is there a site...

So thought i would start to address my brewing water. Up to date i have just been using tap water and beers taste good, but hoping i can make them better. I have been unable to get a water report with the info i need so thinking i may send a sample off to wardlabs, but before I do that i had a...

My wife's favorite beer is modelo and i have been wanting to try a lager so thought i would give it a shot. I found two recipes and entered both into brew target. For some reason, on both recipes my OG is coming in significatnly lower than the recipes states. Never had this issue with...

My first attempt at harvesting yeast from Bell's seems to have done very well. I have stepped it up twice now and plan on getting a starter ready to brew this weekend. My local store was out of centenial pellets so i ended up getting whole leaf hops. I have never used these before and I am...