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my immersion chiller sprung a leak as i was cooling my beer, there was a kink in the copper tube and it cracked! beer was down to 90 degrees and it filled up 3 gallons of water in my 12 gallon batch! ****ing sucks i dumped it. no telling what nasty stuff is in my garden hose and wort chiller...

I was thinking of taking the stone ruination clone recipe from byo and making it into a black IPA by adding CafraIII. talking with the guy at my LHBS once about black IPAs, he suggested to me once about adding the CafraIII to the sparge to just get the color. ive never made a black IPA and...

last weekend out watching football at my favorite Boston sports bar here in the south bay, Fat Face Fenners Fishack, I won these! they were having a raffle, and i really wanted the dos xx sign and i said i was going to win it, sure enough i did!!!! and then some guy won the coors light sign...

im really pissed! first a little background, i have a 2 keggle set up for 10 gallon batches i do out infront of my garage, which faces an alley comprised of apartment complexes, my building is a 4 apartment house, which is typical for the alley. ive been brewing for 2 years with no problems...

Well 2 1/2 years under my belt, this is my butternut squash pumkin spice beer. its been in the primary for 4 weeks and has been fine. i boiled a tsp of all spice in a cup of water for 10 minutes, cooled and added to beer. a few days later, today i get this...... white bubbles and a white...

im bored so thought i would share some photos. skipping ahead to after fermenting the beer, i added crushed camden tablets to kill the yeast days before racking onto blueberries. pasteurize 5 lbs of frozen blueberries drain liquid smooshed up in sanitized freezer bag rack from...

Im looking to make a rye pale ale with using hops and yeast that will let the rye shine through. i have access to white labs yeast, and thought i would use the wlp001. Ive used wlp002, 005, and 007. i like the 007 in ipas. I also want a nice red/copper color to it. suggestions welcome...

i force carb kegs all the time - 30 psi for 36-48 hours. so i took 2 kegs and hooked up to the same c02 same time. put to 30 psi for 48 hrs. keg#1 carbed fine and keg #2 didn't, just slight carbonation. so i lubed the seal around the opening and the release valve. set for another 24 hrs...

A new variety my lhbs has in stock. im going to make an IPA probably 60-20-15-10-5-0 min additions and dryhopping with it. who has used them how do you like them?

ive never used these before. im making a 5 gal blueberry ale and im going to use the camden tablets to kill the yeast. after the beer is done fermenting, should i drop in a whole tablet to the primary, and how long should i wait to rack to secondary on blueberries? thanks

made 10 gallons of a pale ale and pitched it on 2 yeast cakes from BM centennial blonde, wlp001. holy crap i went back in 3 hours to check the temp of my fermenting refrigerator and both had taken off at warp speed, krausen, bubbling and lots of active yeast!!!! i don't know why i never did...

So I brewed 2 batches today, first was a blond got 70% efficency og of 1.046 then I brewed an imperial ipa should have been 1.088 og. Im brewing it now actually. My sg is 1.062 and that includes a lb of sugar. My grain bill is 19 lbs, mashed with 1.5 qt per lb., used 5.2 ph. Why is it when I...

I just kegged an amarillo IPA, and i am dry hopping with whole hops. i usually use pellets and dryhop for 2 weeks. Can i leave the whole hops in the keg (2 oz) until its kicked? I though i read that pellets can leave a grassy flavor after too long. I plan on tapping the keg in 2-3 weeks, and...

Some ingredients in my head Ive been wanting to make an IPA with....just put this together. unamed IPA - American IPA Batch Size: 11.000 gal Boil Size: 12.500 gal Boil Time: 1.000 hr Efficiency: 65% OG: 1.069 FG: 1.016 ABV: 6.9% Bitterness: 64.4 IBUs (Tinseth) Color: 11 SRM (Morey)...

I made this recipe once before but without the rye and used S05 - it came out great and decided to see what some rye would do just because... brewing this friday. Heff-Rye-Zen - American Wheat or Rye Beer ================================================================================ Batch...

when i brew for beers up to 1.070 seems i can get 65-70 percent effiency, i was mashing in a 10 gallon cooler, 5.2 PH stabilizer. ive since then switched to a keggle for mashing and recirculate and heat with and get the same efficiency. the last 2 high gravity beers i did, one in the 10 gal...

since i started using liquid yeast and making starters been getting blow off. this is 18 hour after pitching, 1.087 og and a 2 liter starter made 24 hours before. wlp001 is a beast compared to s05

Go big or go home, thats what this beer is. whatcha think? Simcoe IIPA - Imperial IPA ================================================================================ Batch Size: 6.000 gal Boil Size: 7.500 gal Boil Time: 1.500 hr Efficiency: 70% OG: 1.090 FG: 1.018 (im hoping for 1.014 ish the...

brewed up 10 gallons of thunderstruck but with butternut squash. though i would share some pics. squash hot out the oven Uploaded with ImageShack.us fresh out of the oven 1 hour at 350 degrees. i started with 7.5 lbs but doesn't look like its that much. Uploaded with ImageShack.us...

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