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I made this RIS on 3/2/13 and transferred into my secondary. I took a sample and it was at 1.036. Will this go any further down or will it be okay to bottle? Planned on aging in the bottle and bottling soon, just put it into secondary to free up a primary. I Mashed at 151 F and had a SG of...

I have a RIS I just brewed via BIAB method: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/russian-imperial-stout-2011-hbt-competition-category-winner-238807/ Hit my mash temp of 152 F and mashed for 90 min, dropped to 149 before I started boil. Came out to 72% eff with a OG of 1.074 and a SG of 1.098...

Just did my first BIAB AG brew and everything looks great! Its a NB Dry Dock Urca Vanilla Porter kit. Hit mash temps exactly, lost 1.5 degrees in 70 minutes, overshot my mashout temp by 7 degrees but still wound up with 78.8% efficiency so not bad! NB double crushed the grain for me and...

I married into a family that used to grow a lot of hops in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. After my wife's grandfather passed away her grandmother switched into the nursery wholesale shrub business, but her uncle still makes a hoe specifically for hop growers by hand. I have one myself, used it...

Today I got 3 used beer kegs for $75 off of craigslist (screaming deal I think). I have a straight sided AB keg, a barrel shaped Coors keg and a 13 gal Guinness keg (awesome). I am trying to figure out which keg to use and what to do with the others. I plan on doing BIAB after a few extract...

Hi, I am new to brewing but have been reading this site for the last 7 months. I was deployed (USAF Civil Engineer) and have been spending a lot of time reading and getting my initial brewing set up to what fits best. I have a 30qt turkey fryer (39.99 Home Depot today!), Midwest supplies...