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Anyone have any ideas or tips?

Anyone have any ideas?

I know this should probably be in the extract section but I figured all grain brewers would know the grains a bit better. So I'm gonna be starting my spring and summer time beers soon and one that I wanna try is a Dunkelweizen. I had one recently that had a bit of a chocolatety touch to it. It...

So I'm gonna be starting my spring and summer time beers soon and one that I wanna try is a Dunkelweizen. I had one recently that had a bit of a chocolatety touch to it. It was almost like drinking a banana split. I'm looking to replicate that. My question is, should I use chocolate malt or...

Awesome, just the replies I was looking for. Everything is sanitized properly. I actually left the yeast packet and scissors in my gallon jug that I use for blowoff full of sanitizer so there shouldn't be any worry there. Was just concerned about the time gap and it seems I have nothing to be...

I made a last minute christmas brew today to gift away and I ran into time constraints. The wort was still too warm to pitch the yeast and I had to run off to work. I transferred it into my primary 6.5 gallon carboy and air locked it and I plan to pitch the yeast tonight when I get home. The...

I'm gonna brew this up on Tuesday but with slightly different hops. I'm looking for a little less of an IBU count as I'm gifting this to a few friends who have Celiac and they're not too big on overly hoppy beers. Doing 1 oz of Cascade at 60, .5 oz Cascade at 20, and another .5 oz at flameout...

I've gotta agree with yoop on this one too. The hops you used are English and have a lower alpha rating and sweeter and earthier flavors than American hops. American IPA's usually have Simcoe, Chinook, Columbus, Centennial, and other higher alpha hops which also have a lot more citrus tones to...

Well I went and brewed this beer up on Tuesday. Everything went smoothly. Although, if I were to do it again I'd add about 1/2-3/4 lbs of Black Patent malt to it as the color came out a very dark brown instead of the blacker color I was looking for. It's fermenting away and I'll keep updates on...

I've got the Darkstar burner that NB offers on their website and I'm able to control temperature just fine. The gauge on the line does a great job of controlling the flow of propane and thus creates smaller/larger flames to keep temp stable.

I've heard mixed results on oaking. The higher gravity/alcohol beers I've heard can take up to a month or longer and lighter beers like browns or IPA's only 1-2 weeks. That's one of the parts I'm still researching. The hop reccomendations came from the proprietor of the homebrew store I shop...

I've been brewing more hoppy style beers of late but recently, my neighbor learned I was brewing my own stuff and gave me a bunch of supplies that he had leftover. One of which was this dark malt oatmeal extract (liquid). The first thing that popped into my head was I was doing an oatmeal stout...