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I was browsing through Moylan's website and was checking out the specs on their Hopsickle DIPA. Noticed they list acid malt in their grain bill. I've never seen acid malt in an IPA recipe before. What do you think think its purpose is? Do you suppose they use it to accentuate dryness? Hops...

Public Service Announcement If I offer you any brewing advice, don't take it. Ever! Why, you ask? Because I'm an idiot and just realized now while after failing to vorlauf that I mashed 22lbs of grain with 8 gallons of water in my hot liquor tank. Thank you. That is all.

I've been searching for almost an hour now. I'm pretty sure I've seen it here but I've been looking through HBT and google and still coming up empty. I'm looking for the thread that shows you how to check for refrigerator lines using a paste made of baking soda and water (I think?). Does...

I'm recirculating my mash and getting ready to sparge my Belgian Dark Strong ale. This is the first time I'm using Belgian Dark Candi syrup from BMW. I doubt it matters but when do you guys add it to the boil?

I got a call this morning from my new boss for a job I was expected to start on Jan 18. He told me the company has decided to go in a different direction and is revoking the job offer that I accepted last week. After giving him a good ass reaming to make sure he knows how bad he's farking me...

I've got a Harvest Red Ale going right now and I'd like to dry hop it with a couple ounces of homegrown Cascades. I've come across a couple of blogs and threads where people have funked up their brews when dry hopping with homegrown hops and its kinda got me irked. Is this a valid concern? Is...

I'm brewing today and while splitting up a new sack of Briess 2 row I accidently got a few pounds slightly wet. It wasn't soaking wet or anything but wet enough that it would probably go bad over time. I already mashed in so I couldn't use it today and rather than tossing it I was...

So I just finished brewing up an AG saison. I took a gravity reading and I'm 9 points short; I was supposed to hit 1.055 and I ended up at 1.046. What the hell? Then it dawns on me... I forgot to add the pound of corn sugar. I already oxygenated and pitched my yeast (3724). Should I...

I just went to bottle up my summer ale and I noticed some yellowy white things on the inside of the carboy in the headspace. At first I figured it was pieces of pulp from the lemons I used but then I remembered that I only used the zest from them. Then I thought I saw one of them move and...

A local bar here in MA has a "99 Beers" list. It's a cool bar with awesome bartenders and a good selection. Once you drink through the list you get a plaque to put on the wall with a quote. The quote can be anything your want. I'm about finished with the list, only have 2 left, and can't...

Yep that's right.. 917 days. I hurt my back right after college at work, lost a job I had lined up, went through hell with Workers Comp and settled my case last fall. Since then I applied for about 200 jobs in the past 6 months without any luck. And FINALLY I caught a break today! I got a...

I'm planning on brewing up an Imperial Stout soon and since this will be my first attempt I'd like to see what you guys think of it first. 6.00 gallons 75% efficiency 1.095 OG 80 IBUs 16.50 lb Marris Otter 79.52% 1.50 lb Roasted Barley 7.23% 1.00 lb Special B 4.82% 0.50 lb...

I brewed up an Alt on Tuesday (Jan 6) and by the next morning I had a couple inches of krausen and all seemed to be going well. Oddly enough when I checked on the beer that night about 90% of the krausen had disappeared but the beer was still fermenting strong. The next morning I checked on...

Let me preface this by saying this is the first beer I've kegged and its all very new to me. The keg has been sitting in the refrigerator and hooked up to the gas for just about 4 weeks now. I'm using a 5lb tank, dual regulator, and a cobra tap with about 5 ft of line. After I kegged the...

I'm mashing in a converted 5 gallon cooler and a couple of my next brews require around 14 lbs of grain. I've only mashed 10-11.5 lbs so far with a 1.3 qt/lb ratio. To fit 14lbs of grain I'm going to need to lower my ratio to about 1.1 qt/lb and I'm wondering how this might affect my mash and...

So I'm heading to Tennessee for 4 days with swmbo and her family. We're going to be staying in Gatlinburg. I've already found the Smokey Mountain Brewery so I'll be stopping into the brewpub. Has anyone ever been there and can recommend any beers? Can anyone recommend any other places in the...

and it went perfectly! Hit my mash temp dead on and even overshot my OG by a few points. I was worried about my efficiency on my first AG but I guess I have no need to worry. Best part of it was that I had everything done and cleaned up in 4 and half hours! I brewed up Biermuncher's...

The title basically sums it up. I've tried searching for an answer in the forum and google but I couldn't find anything. I brewed up Edwort's Stone IPA clone. Beersmith calculated it at 74.9 IBUs. Recipe looked like this: 5.25 gallons - partial mash OG: 1.070 FG: 1.016 5.5 lb XL-LME...

I've been noticing lately that my beers are not are carbonated as well as they've been in the past. My last bag of priming sugar was bought at Williams and when I ran out 2-3 months ago, I bought a 5lb bag of corn sugar at my LHBS. My beers have been coming out a little flatter than...

I just picked up my tickets for the Blues n Brews Fest at Nashoba Valley in Westford, MA. I'm got a bunch of my friends going too so its going to be a good day of lots of beer, food and music. I also dropped off 6 entries at the Homebrew Emporium in Cambridge yesterday. Is anybody else going...