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Brewed a pliny the elder clone and it spent a week in the keg before becoming a butter bomb. I'm desperate here. I want to brew the beer that I want to drink. I can brew low gravity ales no problem. IPAs kick my butt though... I can't brew a high gravity IPA to save my life. Here are...

I've read the "Hold the butter" thread, wanted to ask the question again. My last 3 batches have been overwhelmingly buttery and full tasting. The diacetyl shows up after they've been chilled and carbonated. They've all been IPAs too. I would like your help to pinpoint the cause...

I'm in the process of tooling around with a recipe and wanted to get some feedback/suggestions. Want to use Cascade and Centennials because I have a bunch of them. Would this be too much for a double IPA? With my efficiency (70-75%) i'd end up around 1.075. I can usually get 05 to...

Is it ok to put a 3/16 to 3/16 splice and run another 5 foot section? Or is it better to do a continuous run of 10 feet? The reason I ask is I would have to make or purchase another tool to take the tower apart to get to the lines. Extending the lines would also give me an opportunity to...

I am brewing my second lager in a few weeks and wanted to prepare. I want to brew a lager with: 7.5lbs 6-row 0.5lbs Carapils 1lb Flaked Maize My setup allows me to do single infusion and then batch sparge. The recipe calls for a multi-step mash (20'@122F, 60'@150F, 10'@170F). Can I...

I have a brown ale fermenting right now with 007, the krausen is all dropped down and the beer is fairly clear since Sunday's brew session (3 days). I would like to rack it to the keg this weekend for a party the following. Do you think this is too soon for this yeast? I typically wait 10...

Had a lot of compliments on this recipe and thought i'd share. Some people described it as "drinking an Almond Joy". Recipe: Coconut Porter All grain Calculated for 70% Efficiency Batch Size: 5 Gallons Target Gravity 1.064 Safale S-04 Attenuation: 68-71% (1.018-1.020 FG)...

I have too much volume in my kettle and I need to boil it down a bit. Can I just remove the hops and keep boiling? They are pretty much contained in muslin bags.

What are your rules for Dry yeast? I have been using Mr Malty's calculator for a while but stumbled across this and now i'm thinking of stepping up my yeast pitch when using dry yeast. http://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/ It calculates the cell count...

I did a IIPA with mostly 2row a touch of crystal and 2lbs of cornsugar. Mashed at 148F for 80min according to my notes. 1L starter stepped to 2L on a stirplate. OG was 1.087 Final Gravity is 1.010 Calculated out 89% attenuation. The beer has stopped fermenting and I made sure I read...

I can't get enough of this stuff... I believe I taste simcoe in the finish, maybe some cascade. Does anyone have any ideas on making a clone?

Ok, so I pulled a gravity sample of a actively fermenting batch of 1.087 IIPA. I pulled it out a few days ago, ive been watching the gravity drop every day for the past 4 days from 1.029 the first day, 1.024, 1.017 now after 4 days. If the sample stops do you think the batch has stopped? I...

Answer me this, a lot of recipes out there call for 6 gallons. Yet, there are 5 gallon kegs. What is everyone doing with that extra gallon when they keg? Some people will say hop loss, but what about beers that don't have a lot of hops?

Hi guys, I thought i'd share with you an experiment I did. I wanted to know how many times my freezers were cycling each day. For work we have these data loggers that measure temperature over time. I used one in my fermenter space (freezer with a ranco). After 1 week, I moved it to my...

I have a mini surplus of Columbus hops and want to try them in a couple of different styles. Are columbus hops too dramatic and citrusy for this style? I'm going for a smooth beer not too hoppy or bitter for my friends who don't like IPA's. 6.5lbs 2row 2lbs Munich 1lb Crystal 60...

I want to build up my pipeline and would like to hear what you guys and girls have coming up. I want to know what beers are great 3,4,5, and even 6 months past brew date. Cheers!

I was hooking up my blow off tube to some freshly brewed wort and it sucked back maybe an ounce of unsanitized water in... It hasn't started fermenting yet. Is my IPA doomed?

I want to put some sort of a tower chiller on my Kegerator but want to hear about some of your experiences.

Do you guys cold crash the beer before racking to the keg to carbonate naturally? With priming sugar that is.

I've now got 9 all grain batches brewed and i've missed my target gravity on all my big beers (1.070+). I'm always about 5-10 points low. Smaller beers are fine, i've calculated around 75% and as high as 77% using my batch sparging method. I want to brew some more complex recipes and I don't...