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I am about to brew my 8th beer. So far my efforts have improved with each beer and I am thankfully making beer that me and my friends and family enjoy drinking. One issue I have had is that while I have been consistantly successful hitting my expected OG, my FG has been high with every batch...

Getting ready to try a cream stout with the following recipe: Partial mash 1.5lbs 2-row 1 lb Crystal 120 .5 lb chocolate malt .5 lb flaked oats .25 lbs cara-pils .25 lb roasted barley Extract 4 lb extra light LME 1 lb extra light DME 1 oz EKG (60) 1 oz Willamette (60) 1 oz...

Just brewed up an octoberfest ale based on Biermunchers octoberfast ale. I have created 2 possible lables for this one and want some input. Which one do you all think works best with the style?

Ok, I'm ready to brew my first mini mash and I have put together the following recipe from several suggestions. Just wanted to get some input on the final version before buying the stuff. This look good for a rich, malty pale ale? 4lb Light DME 2 lbs Vienna malt 1 lb Munich malt 1 lb...

Looking to brew my first partial mash beer and I need some advice for a recipe. I want to brew a pale ale with the following characteristics. I'd like it just slightly on the richer, heavier side of a pale ale but still close to style. Want it to be a little bit malty and very slightly sweet. A...

I was reading a huge post started by Richbrewer a while back about doing partial mashing in a small cooler and I had a question about it. I posted in a new thead as I was reluctant to dig up such a large older post. Anyhow, I was wondering how my steeping method differs from the partial mash...

From all I have read here, DME is in all ways superior to LME (maybe a bit messier but that's a neglegible issue) And yet nearly every published extract recipe I read uses about 75% LME and 25% DME. Why the bias toward LME? Does it have any advantages? I have a BYO issue of 150 clone recipes of...

Just bottled my second beer, a honey porter. I have designed a few labels and have narrowed my choices down to 2. I would like some input to help me choose the label. Here goes: I like the layout of this label better, but the beach scene does not seem to go well with the style of the beer...

Hey, super noob here. This may be a dumb question, but I am looking to get a new carboy or 2 and I was looking at the better boy plastics as my glass one is killing my back. They run about 25 bucks, but my local grocery store has bottled water in 5 gal carboy type bottles for $12 and that...

So I am looking to start my 3rd beer and am trying to decide what it is going to be. I have a wit in bottles and a porter in the carboy. I have been sampling different craft brews and I have a question. Is there a difference between a pale ale (not and IPA) and a blonde ale? Or is blonde just a...

Well, I have successfully brewed my first beer. I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship. It's a little dark for a Belgian Wit, but it tastes great! Sorry the picture's a bit fuzzy, my digital camera battery is dead and I only had my cell phone to take the pic. Cheers, Evan

Well, my wife and I have made our first beer. All things considered it came out pretty darn good. I wanted to thank those here who talked me down from some angst while waiting for it to be finished. Now that it's beer I wanted to label it and while I wait for some label paper that I ordered to...

I am curently brewing my first beer, Brewer's Best Witbeir extract kit. I fermented for a week in the primary, fermentation seemed to go ok but the beer looks like a brown ale. I racked to a secondary mostly to see what it would do and it's still very dark. What might I have done wrong and...

Hello, I'm a new homebrewer from Jacksonville, FL. I have been interested in brewing for years and decided to pick it up recently after being introduced to it by a friend. My wife and I have started our first brews. Mine is a witbeir now in my carboy and my wife is brewing a couple of test...