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Thank you all for the great advice! I think a BIAB setup is in my future. Oddly enough, I did end up using rice hulls as I do anytime i use wheat or oats, but unfortunately it wasn't enough - I'm also going to take a look at my screen at the bottom of my tun to see if there's something wrong...

As suspected, yeast was DOA here too - I even tried to cancel the order before it shipped out but the guy just said "it's already on the truck." Is that why I didn't get the shipping confirmation til the next day? Sounds like someone's getting hit with a chargeback fee.

So I tried my hand at one of the new New England IPAs and to start it seemed like a good brew day...until I'm ready to mash out and as I open the spigot it trickles out and stops, forcing me to improvise (I'll call it ghetto mashing). I essentially poured my mash water out the top into a...

Sorry to piggyback but better a same thread than a new one, right? :) I've only ever bought equipment from NB (all solid) but with the run on London Ale III I had to use them as the only place I could find it. That said, I'm really concerned on whether my yeast will even survive the trip b/c...

Good article but would love to see a table of actual additions by imperial measurement because I'm a stupid Yank and none of my spoons measure in grams. :) That said, what profile would you recommend using for a New England IPA style?

+1 for doing a simple recipe. Pliny clones cost a ton due to high variants and amount of hops. As a guy who's done a number of IPAa, grain bill and mash temps are extremely key. Water chemistry tweaking (or build from distilled) can help a lot too. I also suggest going with a high...

Thanks so much for all the interest on my post! Also apologies - I forgot to mention that i pitched two packets of US-05, so there was lots of little fellas to crap out some nice warming alcohol for the winter months. :) I pulled a reading yesterday and it got down to 1.030! This is easily...

Pardon the terrible Wilson Phillips pun, but quick rundown: Did a brewday about a month and a half ago doing this recipe. This was easily my best brew yet, but I greatly underestimated my efficiency and ended up with a hydrometer-measured reading of 1.150 going into the fermenter. :eek...

From a business perspective this will probably be great for the homebrew community. This merger will help Northern Brewer get better quality ingredients as the leverage of the name InBev as a buyer from grain/hops growers will be much bigger than Northern Brewer alone. For LHBS shops the...

I'm no expert but here's a few things that I've done to highlight hops in my brews - bitterness is never lacking in my IPAs unless by design: 1) I build up my water from distilled, so for a typical 5 gal batch (19L?) i add 2 tsp of gypsum and 1 tsp of CaCL to get my water right. Your water...

Blast! Ah well, thanks for the tip! Saved me $50 :)

Hey all, I'm working on finding a more efficient way to chill wort as currently I put it in my keezer until it's cold and usually pitch the next day as I find the coil method to be horribly inefficient and ends up wasting a ton of water and ice. I came across the Koolatron Coca Cola fridge...

Awesome, thanks for the advice and quick reply! I don't have a garage - only a carport.

So my buddy and I planned a brew day tomorrow but it's going to be pouring for a straight week...since my rig is propane powered and I like having an uncharred house, that pretty much means it's off. I've already started my starter - do I just leave it going or throw it in the fridge to stall...

I've got almost no carpentry skills (working on getting better!) and I did my ferm chamber with a wine fridge and a Johnson controller. Zero carpentry experience needed - one drill through the bottom of the insulation to feed the temperature probe, some velcro to hold the controller unit on the...

Hey y'all, I've got a bunch of leftover ingredients from several past brews and want to brew with what's left...I've got about quarter lb of different hop remnants from bittering to aromatic, 14 lbs of two row and a bunch of Belgian wit yeast I just harvested from my wit (first time yeast...

So I brewed up a Witbier of my own creation last weekend and was about ready to take some readings today...when I walked out to my fermentation chamber wine fridge and found the thing was literally going NUTS! I ferment in a corny keg with a blowoff connected to the gas QD tube running into a...

Awesome feedback everyone! I decided to use all of your advice and do a SMaTH IPA using Summer (not summit) and Crystal and the California Ale V yeast. I always build from distilled cutting my recipe with about 20% tap (I live in Austin and water here is fine, but not great IMO) and add 1...

Looking for a little guidance as i build out my hypothetical recipe - I recently purchased several rhizomes of Crystal on a lark (based on it's higher level of myrcene oils and the attractive floral characteristics I hope it has) and thought hey, I should probably brew with this if I want to...

Is Mosaic really that similar to Citra? It tastes almost sour to me (vs Citra which tastes like a hop bine did a three-way with a pineapple and an apricot). Hops & Grain here in Austin does an all-Mosaic IPA and it's flavor has almost earthy tones to it (they also use a lot of German malts...