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    BIAB water to grist ratio calculator help

    I typically follow biabcalculator.com for my mash volume when brewing my beer. Recently I've started to investigate why my efficiency has been really low 60% or less and maybe more important, very inconsistent. I got some good advice to try to mill more fine which I will ask tht brew store to do...
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    BIAB low efficiency help

    I've been doing BIAB for my last 4 all grain batches and have noticed really low mash and brew house efficiency especially on two of the batches. I keep reading BIAB should net you 75-80% but I get low 60s and then this last time my pre boil gravity only went up a few points which is really...
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    NEIPA peppery and harsh days after kegging

    I made a NEIPA with citra, Ella and galaxy hops. It fermented for 10 days with citra being added during active fermented and Ella and galaxy added 5 days to go with a cold crash last 2 days. I just put the hop pellets directly in. I moved to keg and did my best to keep out o2 but didn't do...
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    Overly malty DIPA help

    I recently brewed a double IPA with Amarillo, Citra and Mosaic hops. I was going for a very hop forward beer but with enough malt backbone to not be overwhelming. Unfortunately what I got was a very malt forward 9% beer with only a slight Mosaic aroma and trying to figure out why. Here's my...
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    Rule of thumb - Secondary fermentation / conditioning

    I'm on my second home beer but first one not from a kit and am wondering about secondary fermentation or really conditioning. I know there's debate whether that is truly necessary but that's not my question here because I already moved to secondary vessel because I use that opportunity to dry...
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    Yeast starter needed?

    I'm new to brewing and starting my second brew. The first time I used a recipe kit from NB and liquid yeast from Imperial. Everything was fairly straight forward and appears to have worked ok based on gravity readings (I'll know for sure in 2 weeks after the bottles are finished carbonating and...
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