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Thank you all for your comments! Super busy I’ll reply with answers and details once things settle down at home. I just wanted to say thanks for feed back first

So... I’m about 5 brews in , pumpkin ale, vanilla coffee porter, 2 IPA’s (1 peach, 1 triple dry hopped), and recently a tester Xmas ale. All of them save the porter are dark red! I can’t get a clear light colored beer. I use LME and specialty grains to brew. Normally at a 5g batch. I stir the...

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Yea once I put it in primary I don’t open it again until bottling. Knock on wood never had a spoiled batch out of the 6

Smells great when I added my cinnamon tincture

Thanks, I have a bigmouth bubbler with spout so I can taste test anytime luckily. I’ll start using NBs calculators moving forward

Thanks!

I used brew blogger for that wanted 2.5ish but my basement (brewery lol) is around 60-64 degrees

I brewed a Xmas ale and moved to my secondary. Used wyeast 1028 at OG .018. This is an extract recipe/special grains. I added cinnamon and ginger at 10 min of boil and honey as well. When I tested after getting my reading I wanted a little more honey and cinnamon flavor. I made a tincture with...

Making my test batch for a Xmas ale. Using roasted barley, crystal 49/60, wheat malt, special, cascade hops to bitter, huats hops for floral, cinnamon, ginger, honey. Now I’m debating adding cardamom or clove in the secondary any suggestions? It’s 4 days into primary with the wyeast 1028 going...

So how do I get the balance through out the entirety of the beer? Is it a matter of more dry hops, longer secondary, drink faster lol?

So... I brewed an ipa that turned out great. The odd thing is half way through the bottle it goes from hoppy floral goodness to just sweet ibu with no floral notes. Any reason this is happening? It’s like 2 different beers in one bottle.

Thanks! I was a little nervous

Put half my batch over peach purée never saw these little bubbles in previous batches. Thoughts?

Ps... roasty with vanilla

Thanks! Did you sterilize beans first with vodka or anything or just drop them in?

First from scratch recipe and my brew got a little big for its britches. My yeast didn’t eat up as much as I wanted so it came out a bit sweet. I have it racked on vanilla for the 3 weeks and planning to add some coffee at bottling. Any suggestions on what kind of coffee and how much? I have...

Thanks for the opportunity! HOPing to win!

Lol I mean 64 my brain is frazzled right now sorry for typos