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Thank you for the above suggestions. I think I am going to boost my hop levels first until I get the desired bitterness. Once I achieve this, I'll start backing off on the malt and see if I can decrease the hops from there. In that way I'm not changing more than one variable at a time and should...

Thanks, I will consider changing the water. I've been using this particular water because it comes straight from the aquifer, has no chemicals and is very hard but at this point I'm willing to give anything a try.

I seem to have a recurring problem that I've been having with my recipes: I utilize the BeerSmith software when formulating my recipes and try and stay within the style guidelines as indicated by the software. I prefer beer with good mouthfeel and moderate - strong malt backbone and moderately...

Has anyone found that the hop flavor / aroma in a beer is less than what you'd expect utilizing the BeerSmith Recipe formulator? I have made several IPA's and Ambers and have found them to be on the "malty" side. With the Ambers my IBU's have been at the high end of the normal range for the...

I tried the dip tube screens with several kegs where I had whole leaf hops floating around in the kegs. Ultimately the hops ended up clogging the screens and the beer wouldn't flow out of the kegs. I ended up having to transfer the beer to a hop-less keg but lost about half the volume to...

Thanks for the replies. It seems like a pretty obvious thing to do but it doesn't seem like a lot of people mention it. I've also had leaks w/ the dental floss but alsoresolved the problem with keg lube.🍻

Is there any reason I can't dry hop in the keg I'm dispensing from? Rather than racking my fermented beer from my primary to a secondary fermenter and dry hopping in the secondary before transferring to a dispensing keg, why can't I just rack the beer straight to my dispensing keg and place the...

About 2 weeks ago, I transferred 10 gallons of an IPA I made into two corny kegs for dry hopping w/ whole leaf hops. Both kegs have the stainless steel screens on their dip tubes. Is there any reason to transfer the beer to new kegs w/o hops? I would think that w/ the screens over the dip tubes...

I was worried about the rootbeer back flow getting into the manifold and being a source for future bacterial growth and contamination so I decided to break down the CO2 supply lines and manifold and wash them out with water to try and prevent this. Upon doing this and observing the water flow...

Nice to know I'm not alone w/ this problem. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong. I'll definitely look into the check valves.

Thx. For the suggestion. I'll look into it.

Are the check valves something that can be bought at the LHBS or do I need to go Lowe's? Am I to assume from your familiarity with this problem and its solution that it's not an uncommon problem?

Twice now I have had a problem with beer traveling backward from the keg into the C02 line. Last night while cleaning my new keezer dispensing lines I attempted to pressurize a keg w/ some beer line cleaner in it. After attaching the CO2 line to the keg, I turned the lever on the manifold to...

I'm not sure what to make of this situation as I can understand both sides of the argument for and against this homebrewer. What I find really perplexing is why this individual continues to enter these competitions. Unless there is some monetary gain to be had or the need to continuously stoke a...