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Hello all, just have to ask. Ive been a All-Grain brewer for a few years now and I have always batched sparged on all my brews. I was reading on the Stone Brewing website about how they make their Vertical Epic Ale. The Head Brewer "Mitch" had said that you shouldnt batch sparge because you...

Anyone have any off smells to the finished beer with this wyeast weihenstephan yeast? I just brewed a hefe, fermented at 70-72 degrees. My beer has a funky smell. Almost sulfur/rotten eggy smell. I took a sample in to the my local brew shop. The guy said he couldnt notice it, banna and clove...

Hello all, just a question I thought I would ask. My brew buddy and I brewed up a Imperial Red Ale last night. Our origianl recipe that we came up with had 7oz of hops throught out the boil, as so 1/2oz Cent. 20min 1/2oz Amarillo 2omin 1oz Cent 15min 1oz Amarillo 15min 1oz...

I brewed a batch of beer on 2/5 that was 1.055 and i used 1 pak of Safale 04 whitebread yeast. I cooled wort to 60 deg and then pitched rehydrated yeast. Fermentation was visable with in 4 hours, My question is that it has been 7 days and the air lock had been bubling away at a steady rate for...

When reusing a yeast cake is it better to dump the cooled wort on top of the cake or rack on to the cake? I only ask beacuse I brewed a pale ale last night and dump it on to a notty yeast cake from a previous pale ale brew. I thought by dumping it on to the cake that it would add oxygen and have...

My buddy and I made a Barley Wine about a month ago. Actully if you want to be truthful is a Imperial Dark Belgian Tripple. Its a 13% cough syrup. We used a Belgian Strong Ale yeast and did 3 addtions of DME and corn sugar during fermentaion. 14 onces of hops were used in the boil. For my buddy...

My buddy and I made a Barley Wine about a month ago. Actully if you want to be truthful is a Imperial Dark Belgian Tripple. Its a 13% cough syrup:drunk:. We used a Belgian Strong Ale yeast and did 3 addtions of DME and corn sugar during fermentaion. 14 onces of hops were used in the boil. For my...

I just bought a pound of Apollo Hops, I figure I can use them for an IPA but are they good for anything else? 17.5% AA. Thanks!

Ok, so I have a SMaSH IPA in the keg and I am dryhopping it now. I have 2 oz of amarillo in a mesh bag in the keg. My question is how long can I dryhop. I hear 2 weeks is good. Can you force carb and dryhop at the sametime? If so then what do you do when you want to take the hop bag out? Just...

I want to brew a Porter and add some Peanut Butter Extract when I keg. I have some Watkins Peanut Butter Extract in 2oz bottles. It only going to be a 3 gallon batch. Should I use only 2oz or add the other 2oz of extract for a total of 4oz. I could make a 5 gallon batch out of it and just use...

Ok, I will try to make this easy. I brewed a Scotch Ale, 5 gal. It has been aging for a week now. My AC went out in my house and I was out for the weekend, so when I got home I put it in the frig. The primary had sucked some blow off water into it from the blow off jug. I am guessing about 1/2 a...

I just brewed a Amarillo IPA. 12 # 2-row, Amarillo threw out the boil. I have some light toasted oak chips and I was wondering if I should soak them in some white wine or maybe some other type of wine. I have heard of soaking in burbon or whiskey. It just sounded like this would go well with the...

Well I am doing my first SMASH recipe, 10lb 2-row 2lb toasted 2-row Amarillo hops 1oz 60 1oz 30 1oz 15 1oz flameout 2oz dryhop Notty yeast Its more of a SMASH IPA but I just got some light toast oak chips that I wanted to use also. This is my first SMASH and Oaked brew. Any...

I just had a question, has anyone ever primed their keg with the Muntons Priming Tabs? I have used the tabs for priming bottels but not for kegs. I have never had problems with carbing in the bottel using the carb tabs. Anyone have any succes for horror stories. Thanks all!

Just bought some hallertau and liberty hops. Are these hops only for lagers? I still have yet to do a lager, if lager is the way for me to go, then any good double bocks or dark lagers recipes? Thanks!:mug:

Kegconnection has a 2 keg and 20oz Paintball co2 tank for sale, its like 180 bucks. I was thinking about getting this but what are the draw backs of such a smaller tank, compared to a 5lb tank. Will I just be refilling it more often. What if I carb with prining sugar in the corny will that help...

I brewed a german altbier this weekend, I had a a lot of spalt hops! Anyways, I cant tell you a exact reading because my daughter broke my hydrometer right before I was going to pitch my yeast. 1.066 is what brewQ tells me. So I pitched a yeast slurry from an brown ale I made. Cooled down the...

Ok, I wanted to find a recipe that used allot of Nugget hops, this is what I came up with. 7lbs 2-row 4lbs German Munich 4lbs Vienna 1/2lb Crystal 20 1/2 on. Nugget 60min 1/2 on. Nugget 45min 1/2 on. Columbus 30min 1/2 on. Nugget 30 min 1 on. Nugget 15min 1 on. Columbus 15min 2...

I have a beer that is really thin and really alcoholic! 11%abv blonde ale, I was told to put about 4 ounces of maltodexrin in the 5 gal batch along with some lactose. My LHBS is always out of maltodexrin, other that paying for shipping and ordering it online, is there any thing else I could use...

I havent brewed a brown ale and came up with this off the top of my head, so let me know whats up, should I add or take some stuff out? Thanks all! 9lbs 2-row Malt 1lb Munich Malt .5lb chocolate malt .5lb biscuit malt .5lb cara munich .5lb crystal 120 .5lb rolled oats 1oz Northern...