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uh oh so my wedding barleywine is way underattenuated from ~1.080 down to 1.036. i have no choice but to bottle today and i have 19 gallons to do (2 carboys with 6.5 gal and 1 with 6). There was some attempted mitigation of the high grav but options fell through. I was thinking of just...

I made 4 batches, 5 gallons each of barley wine for my wedding, which all came out with slightly different OGs. They are currently all separated into individual carboys. I am about to secondary them by siphoning them all into my keggle to blend so everything comes out the same. I've never...

One of my buddies and I were joking about the concept of using coors as brewing water because it is basically water. This got me thinking... what would happen if you actually brewed with coors as your water source? I mean, it would probably be really crappy but as a 1 gallon experiment that...

I have a keggle with a downspout that I use as my boil kettle. When I am done brewing and chilling through the spout, I always notice a TON of break material that ends up in my carboy (not good for my plate chiller). Theres only a tiny amount of space between the downspot and the bottom of...

I am judging in a homebrew competition for the first time tonight. I am not certified but I am well-versed in style guidelines, work for a brewery, and WILL be taking the exam come august. I have an idea of what to expect but do any of you have any suggestions that could help me out on this...

So this may be one of the more stupid questions i have asked: I am brewing with my keggle right now and it is so steamy that I cant see in AT ALL. when the wort is boiling, i really dont care too much whats happening because its just gonna go for about an hour, but leading up to the boil, i...

Us homebrewers/beer enthusiasts can be quite the snooty bunch when it comes to our passion. More often than not, I tend to turn a cheek to the offender who calls all craft beer "dark" or who flagrantly claims that their miller is far superior to any craft beer, however there are times when I...

I got my plate chiller and my wort pump is in the mail. Now i just need to figure out all the fittings and hoses and stuff i need to get for it to make it work. I also got a kit for Rogue DeadGuy Ale. niiiiice. Post what you got or what you gave!!!!:ban::ban::ban:

It's about that time of year. Post what you want for christmas! And critique lists too. I just bought a nice keggle but i find now that I am doing full boils, ice baths just aren't cutting it for me. I need a plate chiller and pump! For chillers: Blichmann Therminator - $199.00 Shirron...

Usually this kit is priced at about $55 but for some reason its at $20 right now. You get 2x 6lb of extract and 6oz of hops. I personally bought two, nixed the yeast, and am going to just throw something together in the near future!

Am i the only one who thumbs up the thumbs up notification whenever i get one?

Least I Could Do is an online comic that I have been reading for a couple years now. I absolutely love this comic! It is very rarely beer related but Sunday's comic speaks to me. I hope you all enjoy!

I have a giftcard for ~$50 to gander mountain and one for Dicks as well. I really need to get a burner as I just bought a great keggle for mega cheap and want to do 10gal batches. I've done a little research and it looks like the best deal out there is this: Camp Chef - $79.99 Both...

Tomorrow morning, my local homebrew club set up a contest where a bunch of people are going to be attending a brewing session at a local craft brewery. We are going to be brewing a Belgian Blonde. Once everything is all set, the contestants are going to be taking the finished wort home to do...

So I was just browsing craigslist and I see a posting for a keggle: 15 Gal SS Keggle. Had a 1/2" NPT stainless coupler mounted near the bottom of it. There's a brass ball valve on the outside and a dip tube on the inside. $75. What do you think?

I have a recipe that calls for 1 oz of centennial 10%aau for 60 min. The centennial packet i have is new but i came across some fresh but opened saaz 3% and cascade 7%, 1/2 oz each. 60 minutes is just for bittering, so I can essentially use the opened packets of saaz and cascade hops and save...

Post your starters!!! Made on 03/30/2012 for a Belgian Trippel

Just brewed a partial mash smoked porter tonight (recipe at bottom): So I took my OG and it read 1.058 where my target was 1.049. I realized after I had put it into my carboy that I was a half gallon short. I topped off with a half gallon and added 800ml of starter (which was simply 2oz...

I give tasting and tours at a brewery here in Rochester, NY located near the city's public market every Saturday from 9am-3pm. I have been on a great number of brewery tours for other breweries and usually enjoy myself (Sam Adam's tour in Boston was a total waste of time). I've taken quite a...

I was just about to bottle my strawberry blonde. When I took the towel off to get ready to rack, there were yeast rafts all up it's grill. Yesterday, there were none. I know nothing is wrong with my beer at all and I am going to bottle as per usual, but what would cause yeast rafts to form...