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Tomorrow I start riding around with the guy whose position I'm filling, Sales Rep for Riley's Brewing in Madera, CA :ban: Super excited because the brewery is starting to take off and I'm the guy responsible for our home market of Fresno. It's a bit daunting, but I still couldn't be happier. I'm...

I want to brew a double batch of IPA to split into 2 fermenters to experiment with different dry hops, etc. Are there any guidelines/restrictions to doing this, such as max gravity before splitting? If I want to end up with a 6-7% abv brew in each fermenter, would the original wort simply be too...

Got a few different kinds of hops sitting in the freezer, threw together this recipe. Any suggestions? I'm going for citrusy West Coast IPA hoppiness with a good malty backbone, the gf and I don't like the really dry IPAs so much as the West/East coast hybrids that have a nice mouthfeel and a...

I have this awesome black IPA I made and kegged that I wanted to take to my local bottle shop to share before it's completely gone. I can't put it in a growler, it has to be bottled to share. I was wondering, since one can fill a growler from the keg, couldn't one also fill a bottle from the...

When using a brewing calculator like BeerSmith, Brewersfriend.com etc (or even just hand-writing the calculations out), what volume should I be using to calculate what the OG should be? The volume that ends up in the fermenter, right? Also, what is the best method for getting an accurate...

I made a batch of IPA before, based off of Drake's IPA, and it came out fantastic. I added another pound of DME and some more hops as well this second time around, and used Pacman yeast I harvested/washed from my previous batch of Dead Guy. The Dead Guy seemed to get 80% attenuation and finished...

So the recipe for the Brewcraft Dead Guy ale extract kit are as follows: 3lbs Pilsen light DME 2lbs Amber DME 1lb "Brewer's Crystals" - 56% Maltose Corn Sugar 1lb Munich malt .5lb Crystal 40L 1oz Perle 60min .5oz Czech Saaz 15min .5oz Czech Saaz 0min Pacman yeast Their...

Brewed a Belgian IPA a la Raging ***** https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/raging-*****-inspired-extract-recipe-428556/, and have had a couple issues with it. To begin with, the starter I made was in too small a container and overflowed, pushing out and wasting a ton of yeast. I have no idea how...

I brewed up this recipe last night: 7lbs Amber LME 3lbs light DME 2lbs cane sugar 12oz Aromatic Malt 4oz Crystal 80 Steeped @ 155*, 30min 1oz Warrior @ 60 min 2oz Amarillo @ 30 min 1oz Columbus @ 15 min 1oz Columbus @ 0 min 1oz Amarillo dry hop 1oz Centennial dry hop WLP550 yeast The OG...

I went to the local brew store and told them I wanted to make a Flying Dog Raging ***** extract clone. They gave me the following: 7lbs Amber LME 1.5lbs Amber DME 12oz Aromatic Malt 4 oz Crystal 80 2oz Tettnanger @ 60min WLP550 yeast This doesn't seem to meet the ABV nor IBU of the Raging...

So I've made a 2 step starter for a tripel, and noticed this darker layer at the very bottom of my flask. Is it dead yeast? According to yeastcalc this 2nd step should have put me right about at the number of cells I need, if it's dead yeast should I do another step to assure I have enough? The...