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Hello everyone, I am wondering of anyone has ever attempted to mix two types of priming solutions (e.g. honey and table sugar). I like the honey taste but when I fully prime with it it gives an off flavor, I'm looking to do half honey and half table sugar to the volume of 2.8 for an IPA I brewed.

Making a NEIPA and wanted to know how the hop schedule looks: IBU (tinseth): 70.71 HOPS: 0.25 oz - Columbus, Type: Pellet, AA: 15, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 12.81 1 oz - Centennial, Type: Pellet, AA: 10, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 12.39 1 oz - Citra, Type: Leaf/Whole, AA: 11, Use...

How does whirlpooling add bitterness and not hops added at FO? Would you take the hops out using a bag once it's cooled to 180? Then whirlpool..

Going to have a brew day here soon and want to attempt a NEIPA. This is what I came up with: STATS: Original Gravity: 1.071 Final Gravity: 1.021 ABV (standard): 6.59% IBU (tinseth): 65.75 SRM (morey): 7.28 FERMENTABLES: 7.5 lb - American - Pale 2-Row (57.4%) 2.5 lb - Flaked Oats...

What do you think of this black IPA recipe? Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: No Profile Selected Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 6.5 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.066 Efficiency: 75% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.086 Final Gravity...

How does this recipe look? Going to use 1.5lbs of blackberries in secondary also. Brew Method: All Grain Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 6.5 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.039 Efficiency: 75% (brew house) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.053 Final...

Hello, Recently just got into lambic/sour beers. I'm looking to brew a gose and was wondering how to store the yeast. Buying wy5335, now normally when I buy yeast it has an ice pack option but for this it doesn't. Do I store like normal in the fridge? Or keep it out at room temperature?

I was wondering how everyone check the temp of the mash in the mash tun. I was wanting a way without having to drill holes to install a thermowell or a dial thermometer. I found a 12 in waterproof probe that attaches to a digital thhermoter. It says that it will go up to 220°F. Was thinking...

I am brewing tomorrow and made a yeast starter today. I used WLP007 and made a 1000ml starter with it using 4oz DME and 2 pints of water. I am only brewing 5 gallons with the OG projected to be at 1.058. (A rye pale ale- all grain) Would pitching the whole 1000ml be a mistake? If so, how much...

Been looking into kettles, a lot! Pretty much narrowed it down to this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EMD6C0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Has anyone else used this? Thoughts?

I brewed an imperial brown ale, 8.1%ABV. I put 4oz of coco nibs and one cut up Madagascar vanilla bean in secondary fermenter (5 gal). I want a subtle coco taste, something noticiable, but nothing overbearing. I was thinking of keeping it in secondary for 7-10 days (leaning more towards...

Hello, I was playing around with making my first recipe. Wanted to make an imperial salted Carmel chocolate brown ale. I was hoping if someone can tell me if this recipe would come out good or not: Partial mash 5 gal- Grains: Rahr Domestic Pale, standard brewers(2 row) - 2 lbs Crisp...

I recently tried the new Ben and Jerry's salted Carmel brownie brown ale..and loved it. I want to brew something along those lines as a partial mash recipe. Does anyone have a recipe for a salted Carmel brown ale? I'd like to make a small 2.5 gal batch to try things out.

Has anyone made a beer that tasted like Smithwicks?

New to brewing. I scaled down an iipa recipe I found online from 5 gal to 3 gal. I did this by taking 1÷5x3 (batch size)=.6 I then multiplied everything by .6. Recipe calls for 6.6 lbs. Gold Liquid Malt Extract, after converting I got 3.96lbs. I was wondering if I do the same for the boiling...

Hey everyone, I am new to homebrewing and was looking to make a 5 gal recipe to 3 gal. I know how to scale the ingredients down to get to what I'll need. I however don't know if I scale down the boil times or water used during the brewing. Could anyone help and share some insight? Below...