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Was tying to make a basic lager with this recipe: https://www.morebeer.com/products/amber-lager-grain-beer-brewing-kit-5-gallons.html I buy 50lb bags of two-row grain and then the rest of the ingredients individually for a five gallon batch. When measuring out the specified 9 pounds of two-row...

I am getting ready to make this Founder Breakfast Stout Clone: https://www.homebrewing.org/Founders-Breakfast-Stout-Clone-All-Grain-Recipe_p_7282.html The recipe calls for 2oz of Sumatran Coffee at the last 5 min of the boil and then 2oz of Kona Coffee in the secondary. (I will likely not do a...

Looking for some advice on a brew I may have hopped too soon. I made this Pliny the Elder https://www.morebeer.com/products/russian-rivers-pliny-elder-grain-beer-brewing-kit-5-gallons.html on 3/12/19, a total of 38 days ago. Its a 14.5 grain bill with a pound of corn sugar. My OG came in...

I want to add some photos to my album but cant figure it out. I am going to MEDIA and then [Add Media]. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/media/add I can select: Add media to... A site category An album Once here I select: Upload type: Upload an image from your files From here I don't...

Just moved to a new house with hard well water. Got a water softener and a RO filter, which has been working spatially. Other then the new water, my equipment and process is the same as my old house that was on city water. With my old water I needed to add about 12ml of 25% acid to hit a 5.2...

On a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone, I was not paying attention (drinking) and mashed out and sparged way too hot. The wort didn't taste too bad but the finished beer is awful. Very bitter and tart. My guess is it's very high in tannins. If you try to look past the tannins, it may not be that...

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Looking to cook up a 5 gallon batch with a OG in the 1.08 to 1.09 range to lager, perhaps with amber or darker color. I like how my barley wine ales come out with a OG of 1.1 and mash temp at 152F and ferment them at 69F for a month and then rack and repitch with champaign yeast for...

Making this Anchor Steam Kit and it calls for .88oz, 0.5oz and 0.5oz of Northern Brewer hops. Done it before and added a pound of grain and upped the first hops to 1oz for a total of 2oz of Northern Brewer hops. Turned out good. Doing it again. Have my starter crashing and my water heating...

Looking for some feedback on my lager fermentation schedule. I made this Sam Adams Clone kit with wyeast bohemian lager yeast. Made a 2L starter on a stir plate for a week, first three days at 45F and then two at 65F. Crashed the starter overnight and decanted. Hit the 5.5 gallons of wort...

I have been brewing for a while and overall happy with how my beer is coming out but seem to regularly end up with higher than desired final gravity levels. It seems to be almost all of my beers but I will use this Hop Head Kit as an example. My first thought is that I am under pitching...

Adding temp control to my fermenters made the biggest improvement to my beer. I make a lot of high gravity beers and can now get my final gravity down by starting a bit on the cold side and ramping up the temp at the end. Here is how I do it: I have four fermenters...

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I have a pair of individuality temp controlled fermenters with stainless coils on glycol pumps and heating pads that I mostly use as primarys. I also have a pair of insulated but not temp controlled fermenters I use as secondarys or for wine, cider, mead and so on. I recently upgraded to the...

I am making my first lager - a Sam Adams all grain clone with Whitelabs 830 German Lager yeast with a temp range of 50F-55F. I racked to the fermenter at 60F and held it there for about 24 hours and then dropped it to 53F and held it there for two weeks. I then came up to 62F yesterday for the...

I have four 30L Speidel fermenters and am building temp controllers that I can run on two of them at a time. All four are wrapped in Reflectix, and I am getting two high/low controllers, two heating pads and two stainless 3/8" coils to mount in the Speildel from the lids with a thermowell in...

After reading post about sight gauges on Mash Tuns, and all of the draw backs and little benefit, I am looking for advice on putting a sight gauge on my Mash Tun, or finding a some better way to know the water level of my MT. Sorry in advance for the long rambling post. Here is my three...

Here is my current setup: I am going to replace one of the faucets with a stout faucet with a separate nitro regulator and beer gas tank. Option 1 - Remove one of the CO2 regulators and move the gas line over to the nitro regulator. Option 2 - Keep the 3 CO2 regulators where...

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I am just moving to all grain and am looking for suggestions on how to best set my system up. I have been brewing 5 gallon extract batches in my basement about once or twice a month for a few years now. Here is what I have: Burner: 1 Avantco ic3500 Induction cook top BK: Bayou Classic...