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I've brewed a fair amount of beers in my 3 short years of brewing and my beers have gotten pretty consistently delicious. It's rare to have a bad batch these days but my favorite style, IPA, has been difficult for me. Mine consistently come out with a stale or flat hops flavor that will mellow...

Hey everyone, Recently filled my 6 tap keezer and now am having serving issues. All beers were force carbed at the same PSI. I have 6 feet of liquid line for each tap. Keezer temp is set at 45 degrees. Some of my beers are all head coming out of the tap while others are great. I have messed...

So I just posted this story in another thread but it got me wondering why, so I hoping people could share their opinion. Here's the case... I had kegged an IPA and it had fermented at high temps (Some days at 80-85 degrees) when the max temp for the yeast was 72, and it had a solvent like...

Alright, this idea might get some major "bad idea" remarks but hear me out. I brewed a Blueberry Belgian Wit and used 3 lbs of fresh blueberries in my primary and one can of Oregon Blueberry Puree in my secondary. I wanted a blueberry beer comparable to the Wild Blue beer, has a lot of blueberry...

Okay, I've brewed 5 batches of beer now and my most recent was a partial mash, everything before was extract with some speciality grains. I just kegged a Blueberry Belgian Wit on Monday and it was finally properly carbed last night and it has somewhat of a sour taste to it. 2 beers before this...

First of all, its a TripEL IPA, not a TripLE IPA. It is a pretty high gravity beer and I got caught up in getting this beer kegged that I dry hopped it on Sunday and today would be day 3 with dry hops. I went back and looked at the recommended aging for this beer and realized it said 1 month in...

I just started force carbing last night. Something I keep reading and now think might be a problem is, is it a problem that I attached the liquid line and gas line and started force carbing? Should I disconnect the liquid line or is that not a big deal?

Okay, I'm a total newbie when it comes to kegging. I just kegged a Belgian wit. I'm assuming my temp will be around 45 degrees and I want around 3 parts CO2. I put it at 21 PSI but I'm wondering how long should it take to carb up? I want it ready by Thursday at the latest. Should I increase the...

I'm assuming this is normal. Alright, so I've never dry hopped before. Since I plan on kegging my Tripel IPA on Thursday, thats TripEL not TripLE, I figured I would dry hop it this evening and keg it Thursday. So, I added 2 oz of Centennial into my secondary fermentor. Within a minute, the...

I posted earlier asking about details pertaining to a Son of a Fermentation Chiller and I went and got all the materials last night. Parts: I got all electrical parts from Radioshack and I got all other mechanical parts from Home Depot. I would highly recommend getting your stuff from Home...

So, I've decided to build one next week and from what I see, people can consistently get their chiller down easily within lagering conditions. Does anyone lager using their chillers or do you think that would be too risky at those temps?

I've been debating building one because running your AC all summer long is wayyyy to expensive, especially when I'm not home. I've got a cooler closet but it probably gets up to 75 degrees regularly.

For people who have BeerSmith Software-Is it worth it? I'm going to be switching around between partial mash and AG and have been contemplating purchasing this software. Also, does it convert extract into all grain? Thanks!

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Alright, I have a new option I guess for kegging and bottling, has anyone tried the bottling beer gun and did it work successfully? I'm guessing you just force carbonate your beer and then hook up this beer gun to your draft system and bottle your beer and quickly cap it. This way I wont...

Hey Everyone, Well I'm fortunate to have this issue but I want opinions. I recently purchased a new kegerator and will be kegging 2 beers soon. The issue is I have 3 beers sitting in my fermentors and I was curious to see what everyone's opinion is as to which ones I should keg and which one...

So I'm thinking about dry hopping my newly brewed Tripel IPA kit from NB. I just brewed it yesterday and was wondering if it would be overboard to dry hop it? If I do, how long do I dry hop it and how much hops should I use? I was thinking about using cascade. Good or Bad Idea? I know it will...

I understand the entire concept of measuring your ABV but my question is how do you measure it in a fruit beer? So you pour the wort into the primary and you get an OG but you add puree or fruit into the primary and/or secondary, you are adding more sugars but some has already been fermented...

I've only brewed 2 batches thus far but realized that I was going to get sick of constantly buying 10 lb. bags of ice everytime I wanted to brew but I wasn't sure I wanted to pay $60 bucks for one at NB either. So, I simply went to my local Farm N Fleet and bought all the necessary's and it only...

This will be my 3rd batch of brew, just got done bottling my first batch last night and am already thinking about my next brew. I had an awesome Blueberry Lager at a local BrewHaus and wanted to find something comparable. I don't have the capabilities to do a lager but I have a couple of...