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Well I made plenty of them, let's start with what I have here 13# 2row pale 2# caramel 20L Mashed at 152 for 75min Sparged twice at 170 each sparge rested for 10 min. 1oz Mosaic @ 60min. 1/2 oz Mosaic @ 30min. 1/2 oz Mosaic @ 15min. Pitched safeale-05 @74 degrees F...

A little back ground and my recipe. 5 gal. Musselmans apple cider 10 cups sugar 1 packet Red Star champagne Yeast I took 5 cups from the cider and added the 10 cups sugar, I was aiming for caramelization but pretty sure I missed that as I was worried of burning it. Added that to the...

Left some bottles to soak in oxy-clean overnight now the bottles are covered with a white film. Any suggestions on the best way to remove this film. Uggggg I really hat Bottleing

Did everything as I have always done with the exception of the amount of sugar used. Inrewmaster's calc. Told me to use 2.83 oz of table sugar for an ipa. I boiled 2 cups of water with the sugar poured in sanitized bottling bucket and then racked on top of it to mix solution well ( as I do with...

Stupid new equip got me thermometer in keggle mash ton reads 140. Probe thermometer reads 175 been there for 60 min now. Should I just toss it or waste hops and yeast? I am going back to my cooler mash tun

So I had planed on brewing a hefe tomorrow. I made a starter on Tuesday with washed white labs hefe IV yeast. Well something came up and I will not be able to brew tomorrow. So here is my question how long will the starter be good. If I am not able to brew until next week sometime should I just...

So I have been doing a lot of PA's and IPA's as of lately. Spring and Summer are just around the corner so I am ready to do something different. I am open to any ideas. If anyone has some great spring and summer recipes and would like to share them it would greatly appreciated. like i said I am...

Well I wouldnt say it got me in trouble, and I dont think it ruined my beer. So here is what I did. Got a Brewers Best Holiday Ale kit yesterday. Excited about brewing I started steeping and went ahead and poped the top on an Imperial pale ale. everything went fine with the exception of a way to...

Just wondering If I have to rehydrate this yeast? I am a stickler for following directions and I am currently in the middle of stteping grains. I just want to hear some pros and cons really

My Oktoberfest is not hitting FG after 3 weeks in primary, should I repitch? I brewed this from a brewers German Oktoberfest kit. I dont have the equip to lager So i fermented this at around 68 deg. The kit instructions said it was fine to ferment at ale temps so I did. My OG was 1.052 took a...

I have been told that some beers are better off left in the primary. Pale ale for example. Well I have an Oktoberfest in the primary now, been in there for 11 days now. So lets hear it, should i rack to the secondary after 2 weeks or not. This is only my second batch so I am pretty green and...

Ok my first batch boiled over. I used a imperial pale ale brewers best kit. I was not very worried until I cooled the wort and added water to bring the og to 1.084. I am positive i only added maybe about another gallon of water before it hit the recomended og. So i went ahead and pitched and...