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After 2.5 weeks in the primary and consistant hydrometer readings I racked to a keg, dry hopped for a week and then put the CO2 on it. I'm fearful that I racked too soon and that I'll have a bunch of sediment at the bottom for the keg making each pour cloudy for the life of the keg...

**Disclaimer: I'm new to kegging and cold crashing. I brewed Northern Brewer's Chinook IPA 2 weeks ago. The yeast has finished up after 2 weeks in the primary so yesterday I racked to keg and dry hopped with pellets in a hop bag. Keg is at room temp now. It's not a huge beer but will...

Hi All - I'm doing my first kit from Norther Brewer ( Chinook IPA). I'm trying to figure out the batch size ( 5, 5.25, or 5.5 gallons ) that i should use in order to calculate my sparge water / pre boil amounts. Any help? Thanks!

Brand new to kegging - just bought a kegerator 2 weeks ago. Unfortunatly I wasnt informed about proper cleaning of my first keg until it was too late. I know know about PBW and oxyclean. All I originally did was rinse and hit it with starsan. My beer taste and smells nasty now. I even...

After bottling roughly 200 bottles over the past 3 weeks....I have grown more and more jealous of those who keg. I've decided that I want to start kegging but dont know the first thing about it. I've decided to just buy a kegerator that will hold 2 or 3 kegs vs building one. I am...

I am planning on using tastybrew and / or brew smith to calculate my priming amounts but wanted to make sure I select the proper beer style. This is a Red Rye Ale. I'm pretty sure I'd select American Ale but wanted to confirm. Here is the recipe: Grain: 7 lb. American 2-row 1 lb...

I've been trying to dial in on my efficiency numbers and stumbled a bit last night. As I was pitching the yeast, I remembered that I forgot to get get a OG reading. :o However, I did get a reading of my pre-boil gravity. Is there anyway for me to figure out my OG based on the info below...

My hop schedule calles for 2 additions. 1@ 45 & 1 @ 10. Does that mean its only a 45 minute boil?

My goal is to brew a Heffe ....7# German Wheat & 4# German Pils. My LHBS was out of Wyeast 3068 so I picked up 3333. Now I am concerned that I wont really be making a heffe and get that bananna / clove flavors. There is another lhbs that sells white labs only so I can head out and see...

After my mash and the first runnings are collected; am I suppose to stir my grain bed before, or during, fly sparging? I've batch sparged my earlier AG brews but fly sparged last week and really liked the control I had managing the sparge and pre boil volumes. I also gained points with...

I am looking for some help with water volumes ( Strike and Sparge ). I am coming off a hiatus of brewing and am a bit rusty so I want to make sure I get the volumes correct. I downloaded beersmith but am far from comfortable using it right now. In the meanwhile I wanted to get a couple...

I woke up this morning to my bucket bubbling away at 74 degrees - YIKES. I instantly wigged out and put the primary in a keg tub, filled 3/4 with water, added ice and two frozen 2 liter buckets. I had to go to work so was not able to stick around to monitor the temp decrease. About 3PM I...

All my brews are cloudy and its starting to bug me. They taste great but the clarity is something I want to work on. I normally do IPA's - All grain (just switched from extract 2 batches ago) - Whirfloc tabs the last 10-15. I use an IC and get from 212* to 70* in 12-15 minutes. Primary...

Is this calculator correct? I plugged in my numbers and according to this calculator I only have 48% efficiency. :confused: http://www.brewersfriend.com/brewhouse-efficiency/ My recipe was: #7 German Wheat #4 German Pils #.5 Rice hulls Preboil was 7.5 with a gravity of 1.025. My...

My recipe calls for 10lbs of Pale Malt 2 row but I accidentally ordered Brewers 2 row from AHS. Tried calling but it's already been shipped. I'm not overly concerned about it as I understand they are fairly similar grains. My question is, should I adjust my mash time and temps to...

I brewed Ed's Bee Cave Heffe. I fermented about 5.5 + Gallons. I just racked to my bottling bucket and ended up with 5 gallons on the nose. I used Tasty brew and it states that I need to use 8.6oz of dextrose. Is that right? Seems like a lot. :confused:

I'm new to AG was getting ready to brew a recipe that called for the below mash schedule. I'm not sure about #2. can someone help explain this? When do I add the 4 quarts of 175* water? Mash Schedule 1. Mashed in with 4 gallons at 154F, mash for 60 minutes 2. Add 4 quarts of 175F for...

I was thinking about racking and priming today and bottling tomorrow. Would this be ok or will my brew start fermenting the priming sugar again in my bottling bucket?

I need to mash at 153 for 90 minutes. I missed my temp and only got to 147. It stayed at 147 for 15 minutes until I was able to boil up another gallon and bring temp tpo 153. My question is.....Do I start my 90 minutes from the time I got to 153 or go I need to factor in the 15 minutes at...

Title says it all.....idiot mistake.....Added the primimg sugar to the primary instead of racking to bottling bucket first. As soon as I stirred it up, I knew I had screwed up majorly. Anyone ever done this before and had the beer turn out decent? What should I do at this point?