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Trying to build up my water today for the first time. I'm using distilled water and I just want to be sure that I have the correct minerals to ensure the right mash. I've manipulated things in Bru'n Water and got my chloride and sulfates where I want them. Mash pH appears to be on target as...

I'm going to start dabbling in water chemistry for the first time (finally) and think I'll try to build up from Distilled water. Given that I totally don't understand this stuff yet, I'm hoping someone can help me with the salts calculations. Let's say I want to do the followin water profile...

Looking for some Tree House. Open to this week's releases as well as last week. Let me know what you have available. FT: Other Half/Trillium Like Whoa Other Half Mosaic+Waimea Other Half Short, Dark, and Handsome Other Half Grape Conversate Trillium Nelson Fort Point Trillium...

I've been brewing for about 5 years now and recently I've hit a streak of oxidized IPAs when bottling. Everything tastes great at bottling day but after 3 or so weeks in the bottle, my hoppy masterpieces turn into purple/brownish messes that have lost their spark. After the last oxidized...

Going to be brewing a citrus-forward IPA this week as a test batch for my friend's wedding. He'd like to use the following hops and I'm not sure how best to layer them for dry hopping: Citra Mosaic Simcoe Amarillo This will be a "Northeast" IPA and was thinking the rest of the hop...

I'm going to be scaling down my batch size for the first time from 5 to 2.5 gallons and am hoping I can still use my 10 gallon cooler mash tun for it rather than BIAB. I assume I'll be brewing something in the 6-7% range so I'll have around 6-7lbs of grain. Is that okay in that size vessel?

Thinking of brewing this recipe sometime in the next week or so. My last two IPAs had a grain bill using Munich and Vienna. They were good but not really what I was hoping for. As a lot of people are, I'm targeting the "Northeast" style and this will be my first time using oats and flaked...

Had a strange thing happen to me recently with a Nelson/Galaxy IPA that I brewed. Coming out of the primary, it was a nice pale yellow and had a great tropical aroma from the Nelson and Galaxy dry hop. Sample tasted excellent and I bottled it. On bottling day: When I cracked one...

Hi all, I'm looking to brew an IPA tomorrow and utilize some Galaxy hops that I just got but I've read a lot of different things on their usage alongside other hops. Most notably that they should be used in a restrained manner, but I'm not exactly sure how to quantify that. I think I'll be...

I've been tweaking an IPA recipe recently and this time I'm going to try using Pils instead of 2-row. I have limited experience with Pils, having only used it a couple times in Saisons, both of which I did a standard 60-minute boil and didn't have any DMS issues. When I went to purchase my...

Hi all, I'm brewing what I'd like to be a nice fragrant pale/almost IPA today and my recipe is below. I've already gotten all my grains crushed together but I'm having last minute nerves about the amount of Munich and Vienna in there. The last thing I want is an overly malty beer and I...

Still have some fresh All Green Everything and Galaxy IPA from Other Half canned 7/27. ISO: -Bruery non-national distribution beers -MBC Dinner -Treehouse -Trillium (especially Viscinity and Artaic) -New Glarus (open to a number of their offerings) -Heady -Sip -Mastermind -Second...

hi all, I'm going on a month-long honeymoon/road trip focusing on many national parks in the west. We're the active nature-loving, rock climbing kind of people and that'll be the focus of the trip but what kind of beer nut/home brewer would I be if I didn't sneak in some breweries and bottle...

My best man spent months trading to put this amazing collection together for me. Going to take my time working through all of these beauties. Some not photographed. Bruery Grey Monday Bruery Black Tuesday Bruery Sour in the Rye with Peaches Bruery Sour in the Rye with Kumquats Bruery...

I recently had a fantastic IPA (Greenbacks by Other Half) that was based around Azacca and Mosaic. I've been toying with a recipe that I hope will match the flavor at least somewhat and then I can start tinkering with it. What I'm going for is a medium-bodied beer with a touch of malt...

About 2 weeks in. Simple pale ale. Smells great but I've never seen such big krausen. I did wash the carboy in soap prior to use. Thought I rinsed very well but this was my first time using glass so I couldn't shake it vigorously like plastic. What do you think? It smells great.

Heading through CT this weekend. Any idea where I might score some Sip of Sunshine cans??

This weekend I'll be using my new 10g kettle that has a ball valve and side pickup tube installed. Prior to this I used a regular kettle and my process was: -Boil -Cool in ice bath -Pour wort through funnel into Better Bottle (removing hop debris) -Ferment Now, since I have the valve...

My wedding is a mere 3 months away and it's time for me to determine what beer I'll have at it. I'm planning on brewing a saison and a hoppy pale ale (probably 10 gallons of each), but I also need to have some commercial beer available to people. The caterer will get pretty much anything I...

Due to a variety of reasons which I won't go too crazy explaining here, I want to use a submersible pump to run water through my wort chiller (possibly do the recirculation thing as well). I bought this cheap pump: http://www.harborfreight.com/200-gph-submersible-fountain-pump-68372.html...