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I'm going to be brewing an American Amber Ale on Monday. 2.75 gallon batch at 1.048. I'd like to use some unwashed yeast slurry that I have stored. I understand how to make a starter, but I can not figure out how much slurry to use even after hours of research. I'd like to use some WLP001 that...

I'm going to be brewing an American brown ale soon and the recipe calls for Horizon as the bittering hops. I don't have any on hand, but I do have some Chinook. Can I use the Chinook as long as I account for the different AAs to get my IBUs? Or would it be better to just pick up some Horizon...

I think I might have screwed up my last batch of beer with the airlock. Or not. When I go to cold crash my beers, I pull off the airlock and just cover the bung with a piece of sanitized aluminum foil to avoid any suckback. Well, when I did this the other day, I realized I never put in the...

I'm going to be brewing up the American Amber Ale in Brewing Classic Styles. While getting my grains at the LHS, I realized that they did not have Crystal 120L. They had 80 and 150. I grabbed the 150, but now I'm wondering if that was the right choice and what kind of changes I can expect. It's...

I brewed my first lager, American Light Lager from Brewing Classic Styles, on May 30 and today I took a sample and I’ve hit my FG of 1.006. Tastes good. No diacetyl that I can detect. Normally I let my ales go 3 weeks before I bottle. Should I go ahead and rack this to a secondary and start to...

I brewed a Stout on Sunday and forgot to recalculate my boil off as I was using a propane burner rather than my stove (1 gallon an hour vs. 0.5 G). As a result I ended up with 2.25 gallons rather than the 2.75 gallons I was shooting for. My OG was 1.045. In a moment of stupidity I guess, I ended...

One of the first ten batches of beer I made (probably the first 5) was NB Bourbon Barrel Porter. Even with all the noob mistakes I probably made, no fermentation temp control although I brewed it in the winter so the room I kept it in was cold, and other stuff, it came out surprisingly good...

I brewed up a 1.5 gallon batch of blonde on Friday (3 days ago) and used Safale US-05. I set my fermentation chamber to 60F, but now am second guessing myself. Is that too low a temperature? Should I raise it up? I've also been read a few posts today about raising the fermenting temperature...