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So I just bought myself a fancy new refractometer, since I was tired of taking larger samples for my hydrometer. I calibrated it to distilled water just fine, but when I took a reading of my ready-to-bottle pale ale, it read 8.2% brix! Worried that fermentation had gotten stuck, I took a...

Like the title says, I have lots of dogfish head 120. I would like to get a bunch of other things in exchange for some of them. I'm interested in all of the usual stuff, such as a dark lord, russian river sours, and other stuff out of the dc area distribution. Message me if you have any offers...

I am entering my first BJCP competition (first competition ever, to be more exact). I've been brewing for a bit, and I feel like I have some experience under my belt by now, so i want to take a shot at competing. I have been wanting to try to make a rauchbier for a while now, and the competition...

Thought I would try out the trade forum here. I'm in the dc area, a d looking for a couple of things out of my distribution. Specifically, I would really like to try Dark Lord and some stuff by new glarus. I have a bunch of stuff to trade, like anything dogfish head, oskar blues, terrapin...

Ok, so I am thoroughly confused. I tried my hand at my first rye IPA, using a partial mash recipe of my own making. Here's the recipe, btw: 3# Rye LME (70% 2 row, 20% rye, 10% C40) 3# 2row 2.5# Rye 0.5# Caramel 60 0.5# Corn Sugar 3 big handfulls of rice hulls Mash at 148 for 90 min 1...

Ok, I have read a bunch of threads on head issues, but none seem to match with mine. I have about 3 batches of beer with very different recipes and carbonation levels. All of them went into bottles without a hitch. After 3 weeks I opened each of them to test and they were fantastic! The...

I had my first true blow out this week. I brewed a Belgian dubbel, 1.065 OG, fermented with a 3L starter of WY500 Trappist High Gravity. i put about 5.5 g into a 6 g carboy, and naturally used a 1" blow off tube set into a cutoff 2 liter full of water. Good thing I used the tube, because within...

Hey, everyone; I have been having the same attenuation issue with two separate beers, and I was hoping to get some advice. I am brewing two different double IPAs, one with an OG of 1.105, and the other at 1.090. The first was a partial mash, with mash temp about 154, was fermented with a...

I know that it's half over, but this week is DC Craft Beer Week. I am just wondering who in the area has been enjoying the events? Also, I wanted to express my excitement for the Chocolate City release party tomorrow!

I have recently started hoarding samples of the yeasts that I use in brewing to save on time and money in the future. I have been using the Mason Jar approach advocated in the washing sticky, as it should be good for a couple of months after sealing the jar. My question is this: when...

I posted this in extract brewing, but it seems there is little traffic there, so I thought I would try here as well. Ok, so i came up with the idea of taking the aggressive hop profile of an IPA and applying it to the German Altbier style of brewing. I have been tinkering with this for a...

Ok, so i came up with the idea of taking the aggressive hop profile of an IPA and applying it to the German Altbier style of brewing. I have been tinkering with this for a while, and it has kind of morphed into an Imperial Alt. The key here is that I want to use German hops, mostly German...

So after reading about a dozen posts on this forum on the various experiences people have had harvesting Pacman yeast from a bomber of Rogue, I decided to try my hand at it. I followed all the directions in the video that's been floating around here, making a sanitized vessel, allowing an inch...

Hey, everybody, so I am planning on making my own spiced winter warmer in the coming months (it's going to be pretty high gravity, hence my starting now). I decided to do a partial mash, and I have all of the basics taken care of, and it's going to be 5 gal of about 1.075 OG, with somewhere in...