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I am looking to purchase a chest freezer, small heater, and a temperature controller to act as a fermentation chamber so I can begin to lager and have more control over my fermentation temperature. I was thinking a 7.1 cubic foot chest freezer would fit two glass carboys (12'' diameter) and a...

So I know this is a home brew forum, but I just thought I'd post this here to see what the great folks at HBT have to suggest. My girlfriend is in Seattle visiting family and is going to ship back some beer while she is up there. We are from Tennessee and there is a lot of beer up there we...

I was recently given a package of White Labs Brett C and have decided to brew a Brett IPA with it. I have no prior experience brewing a Brett IPA or even using Brett at all. I have researched elsewhere online but am wondering what the folks over here at HBT have to recommend. Here...

So... I brewed a pumpkin porter 2 weeks and five days ago (I added 59 oz of pumpkin puree baked at 350 for 30 minutes to the mash). After the second week, I noticed the gravity was stuck at 1.024 (O.G. was 1.063 I was expecting somewhere around 1.016 or 1.017 for F.G). No big deal, I...

So I am planning on brewing an ESB today and yesterday I realized I had left my Wyeast London Ale ESB smack pack out a room temperature for a week and a half. I got a cup of DME and boiled it in around 1300 ml of water and then pitched the smacked pack of yeast in it after it cooled to make a...

Thinking about brewing a pumpkin porter for fall but have never had any experience adding pumpkin to any beer let alone a porter. I will be brewing a six gallon batch (aiming on bottling around 5.5 gallons). I want the pumpkin flavor to be subjacent to the roasted flavors of the porter but...

I am basing my Black IPA recipe of the clone recipe ( https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=282914 ) of this beer because it looks like a nice grainbill!! I wanted to make a little more drinkable BIPA yet keep the percentages in the grainbill and IBUs pretty much the same. This is what...

A friend and I are joining forces and brewing a 10 gallon batch out of his 15 gallon keggle. We want to try and make two different types of stouts out of the same 10 gallon wort. I am basically looking for some suggestions of two very different types of stouts we could make using different...

I am brewing a Blonde Ale for summer and want to give it a hint of citrus without overpowering the malt and other flavor hops. I was thinking of dry hopping a small amount of citra or galaxy or subbing some of the flavor hop additions with them. Has anyone used citra or galaxy in a blonde...

Hoping for some feedback on an Oatmeal stout recipe I am working on as I am relatively new to all-grain and very new to actually making my own recipes. Thanks. Batch size: 5.5 gallons 12 lbs Maris Otter 1 lbs 8 oz Flaked Oats (Toasted) 8 oz Chocolate 8 oz Roasted Barley 8 oz...

Hello HBT dwellers, this is my first post on any sort of home brewing forum so I want to say thanks to everyone here responding and posting because all these tips, recipes, and ideas are awesome!! ANYWAY, I am a relatively recent all-grain brewer and am looking for a critique on some...