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Hey folks, I started a little GoFundMe campaign to help with purchasing materials for me and my friends to upgrade our system. The biggest thing is building a tiered system so that when my "assistants" aren't around, gravity can do the lifting for me. We love to brew, we love to share and the...

I was reading about this method earlier today with traditional brewing. Have any of you ever done this with BIAB? Would be a pretty sweet way to get a little extra wort out of a big batch of grain.

My buddies and I are brewing again this weekend. 10 gallon batch Irish red grain/ hops bill. I'm gonna pitch American Ale yeast in at least 5 gallons of it but I'm wondering what to pitch in the other 5. I have a packet of Wyeast Thames Valley that I need to use but what kind of weirdness can I...

So, I acquired a new kettle, it's huge. My wife could bathe in it, huge. I did a 5 gallon batch in it a couple of weeks ago and my single infusion strike water, around 7.5 gallons wasn't enough to cover the grain. Is there any harm in adding a little more to my strike water to cover my bag/...

So, my mates and I brewed a Belgian IPA a couple of weeks ago. Same stuff, different day. Belgian grain bill, IPA hop schedule but we used a Saison yeast, Lallemand Belle Saison to be more specific. So I peeled the cover off the carboy for maybe the second time since pitching today and to my...

Hey folks. I've been trolling and posting for a couple of months now and haven't gotten around to properly introducing myself. I'm Jeff. I brew with three buddies every couple of weeks. Currently, we're brewing extract kits with specialty grains but I long for something a little bigger. I'm...

So, me and the boys bottled our copper ale from the extract kit from Midwest. I have been making a habit of just drinking the last half bottle or so just because. This beer is good. Not just good but, really good and it's not even carbed yet! I'm really excited for this beer to be conditioned...

So, for the first three batches of beer that my buddies and I have brewed, we've used Munton & Fison dry ale yeast. Each batch has been kept well within fermentation temperature range (64-70 if memory serves me), and every batch seems to stall out around 1020 SG. We've done primary and secondary...

My buddies and I have been brewing extract batches for a few months now and are considering going all grain with BIAB. My main concern is what kinds of equipment we'll need to upgrade to. I have a burner that will handle big batches and my lifting system is sorted out. Is it feasible to try to...

So, I've been trolling the web for a few days trying to find profiles for different yeast strains, specifically from Wyeast and stumbled across a pdf somewhere in google-land and thought I'd leave it here. Don't know how many of you knew this was in the world but I know it'll help me with...

We bottled our first batch yesterday. 52 bottles total with a 53rd that had enough for all of us to try some before it's conditioned. It tastes pretty damn good. It's in my basement on the shelf doing what bottle primed beer do. Chillin. We also took yesterday as an opportunity to brew our...

Picked up a gallon of juice from Whole Foods yesterday. It's already pasteurized to kill the bad bugs. It's unfiltered and it comes in it's own handy dandy fermenting jug. I didn't want to take any chances so I gave it a quick boil and added a few big tablespoons of raw honey. No big deal...

Sunday, my buddies and I brewed a first batch of beer. It's a kit from Midwest, the Peace Java Stout. We followed the instructions to the letter, making sure everything was sanitized and so forth. The friend who's house it's stored at during the fermenting process hands us updates daily...