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About to restart my home brewing, been a long while! Too many other issues, I had to stop for a while. Anyway, my question pertains to my hops, i have a couple pounds of whole hops, 08 growing season. they have been in a dark freezer since I bought them. are they ok to use? How would I...

well, my first smash is finally cleared after a couple weeks in the fridge. turns out simcoe is frutier than i gave credit! holy cow this stuff is citrusy! i like citrus, but this is a bit over the top...lol. anyway, a few more months in the bottle, and i bet it will be a bit mellower...

anyone know how to transfer a file to a new install in order to keep all my old saved recipes? beersmith i am going to install into my new confusor, but i want my old recipes... can i overwrite one of the new install files with an old one? any problem with goin from 32bit os to a 64 bit...

Beersmith OG estimate 1.067 my OG= 1.065 ghrrrrrrrrrrr very pissed. hit every temp, ecept mash, 157 vs 154.... added a bit of cooler water, 154 after about 20 mins. held the whole 60 mins. not happy at all. i blame the crush :) LHBS crush is usually better the B3 is, but this time i...

lookin for suggestions, tweaks whatever. i cannot get the hops i need to try a torpedo IPA clone, so i made this one up. my last coupla brews are too dry, this one i will try to keep that from happening again. not to mention, my fermentation temps will be lower (my closet has been 59-61* for...

ok, i have a 5 gallon MLT cooler that i cannot seem to get the efficiency i want out of, due to my largish grain bills. my AG clone i had to do two seperate mashes, it was like two brew days for one batch, and i do not wanna go there again! (2 mashes, 4 sparges, 3 hours of boiling...you get...

anyone else with me? total finance nerd here. im a motley fool caps memeber, spend hours a day lookin at financials and whatnot. sad part, i am a body shop manager! :( i missed my calling. watchin "house of cards" right now on cnbc. if you are a gook like me, you need to set your...

is da bomb. there is nothing better. i am sold. i need a clone recipe, or i will be forced to find it myself. this is THE BEST commerical beer evar! if anyone can help, please do so. I must brew this. i am in drunken bliss right now. and tomorrow is a school day...

lookin at this thread -> https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/my-dba-starter-double-bastard-ale-100711/ my beersmith og estimate was 1.091 i ended u p @ 1.084 should i be pissed? i did collect 5.75 gallons into the fermentor, which beersmith shows 1.079.... so i beat the 75%, i guess i am...

added 1.5oz for what was supposed to be a 90 min boil..... then started my second mashout/sparge (had to split mash into 2 parts, mash tun too small) anyway, what was a 90 min addition, is going to be at least 120min, possibly 180 min! i have 8 gallons in a 10 gallon pot boiling away, and i...

for search purposes... double bastard ale well, just started my DBA starter. used a 1.4lb can of LME. in boiled/cooled water 3 qts, in a tree top 1 gallon juice container, cleaned and sanitized. wlp001 yeast. og was 1.045. (had to dilute to get @ that gravity!) 3 qts in 1 gallon container...

so, boil whole leaf in a couple cups o water, and add to fermenter, or, just drop an once or two direct...or, steep in bag, drop bag in fermenter...or????? i wanna do about an once of amarillo to my nearly done actively fermenting batch. whats your suggestion? thanks in advance. i have...

I have pretty much all the popular hops at my disposal. wanna do a smash next weekend. the only thing sure is MO is the grain. i have 11lbs. after 4+ weeks of non brew, the pipeline is darn near empty!!!! (ok, i brewed sunday, so i lied...well, and the week before, but that was an extract...

well, in regards to this thread --> https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/cold-conditioning-95960/#post1042185 I went ahead and pulled one out of my little fridge. my All-Day-IPA had been sitting there for 8 days @ 34*. i also pulled one out of the cupboard @ ~70* and put it in the freezer...

do you get the same conditioning properties once bottled @ room temps vs colder ?? (i.e. ~35*f) ill splain... the last two batches i bottled after three weeks in primary. cold crashed one for 4 days. now, after 2 weeks in bottle, both were not very good. i put two sixers of one batch...

better hurry before they figure this one out! i bought two, one for a backup!!!! Amazon.com: The Great American Micro-Brewery Co. The Beer Machine, Model 2000: Kitchen & Dining go! get yours before they are gone.

I came to a realization. i drink a wee bit. i have 15 cases (of just 12 packs) in my bottle collection. just counted em. i have only been saving em for ~3-4 months. i have as many in six pack containers as well. this is not hard to believe mind you, the bad part is i only drink beer about...

well, we have about 3" of compacted snow (ice) up my 1/3 mile driveway to the main road. i cannot get up it, because the 4wd in my 2 year old f150 is out....AGAIN! i have tried, and tried, to the point i am almost out of gas....and we have snow in the forecast....doh! funniest part, i...

for yeast viability, how cold is too cold? would 24* kill the yeast, or would i only have to worry about freezing bursting cell walls? i would like to bottle, and do not wanna repitch. kinda defeats the purpose of cold crashing, i went a little too cold tho

2nd all grain batch today. unfortunately my sparge temps were way low, not sure how i messed that up, and bummed i cannot find strike temps for double batch sparging in beersmith. they have a great calculator for mash temp tho, and it worked perfect. i wanted 153, and i had 153.... then, i...