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Hey y'all, Kinda new to formulating my own recipes still and this will actually be my first IPA so I would appreciate any help you can give me for this recipe :mug: I'm hoping for a bready/biscuity beer with a nice hop presence that isn't overwhelming or too bitter. Basically I'm hoping for...

So I have a recipe for a rauchbier and I plugged it into both beersmith and brewtarget and came out with two wildly different IBUs. I have the same boil volume / batch volume / efficiency for each so I don't know what went wrong... The IBUs: Beersmith 33.2 Brewtarget 41 OG/ABV...

This is actually the first recipe I made my own, so I would appreciate any feeback! I actually posted an early version of this asking for tips (and got some great ones). Just wanted to see if anyone had any tips before going to buy everything! Partial Mash 5 Gallon Batch 2 lbs light DME...

This is actually the first recipe I made my own, so I would appreciate any feeback! I actually posted an early version of this asking for tips (and got some great ones). Just wanted to see if anyone had any tips before going to buy everything! Partial Mash 5 Gallon Batch 2 lbs light DME...

This is actually the first recipe I made my own, so I would appreciate any feeback! I actually posted an early version of this asking for tips (and got some great ones). Just wanted to see if anyone had any tips before going to buy everything! Partial Mash 5 Gallon Batch 2 lbs light DME...

This is actually the first recipe I made my own, so I would appreciate any feeback! I actually posted an early version of this asking for tips (and got some great ones). Just wanted to see if anyone had any tips before going to buy everything! Partial Mash 5 Gallon Batch 2 lbs light DME...

Hey, So I'm trying my hand on making my own recipe for the first time and was hoping you guys could give me some tips before I brew. I want to make a rauchbier. Except I don't want the smoke to be overwhelming, so I plan on not using it as the biggest grain addition. Also, I'm trying to make...

Hey, So I'm trying my hand on making my own recipe for the first time and was hoping you guys could give me some tips before I brew. I want to make a rauchbier. Except I don't want the smoke to be overwhelming, so I plan on not using it as the biggest grain addition. Also, I'm trying to make...

Hey, So I'm trying my hand on making my own recipe for the first time and was hoping you guys could give me some tips before I brew. I want to make a rauchbier. Except I don't want the smoke to be overwhelming, so I plan on not using it as the biggest grain addition. Also, I'm trying to make...

So I've had a vial of liquid white lab yeast in the refridgerator for about two weeks now and I've noticed it now has a brown layer on top of the yeast cake, maybe 2 millimeters thick. It's expiration date is August 29th and I don't want to make a starter. I'm brewing a wheat beer so I want a...

So..... I kindof stirred the wort to "help it cool down". What happened was I disturbed the trub and now its all in the wort. I transferred it to the fermenter, should I wait on adding yeast, wait a while for crap to settle, transfer it to a secondary, then transfer it back, or will that not...

So, I want to brew the Whitey's Gone Fishin' Pale Ale from the Joy of Home Brewing book. Recipe is as follows: 6.6 lbs light LME 1oz Amarillo hops (60min) .75oz French Strisselspalt hops(10min) .50oz Sterling Hops (0min) English yeast (I'm thinking WL013) So what I was wondering is...

So, I know that you need to adjust your use of hops if you are doing a full boil vs a partial boil, but I have yet to find any thread, any website, anything to help me in actually determining how to adjust the amount of hops. Please help

So I really love variety when it comes to anything, especially beer. Also, 5 gallon batches are just huge. I mean sure, you can give a lot of it away, but still, I want to move onto my next batch, but not until I'm almost done with my current batch's bottles. The only problem is I haven't...

Hi, So I've boiled and pitched my first batch of beer and after 24hrs, I haven't seen any action from the airlock. Should I shake it around to try and aerate it? :mug:

Hi, I just finished my first brew. Things went well, kind of. At least I know what I need to do for the next one haha. Anyway, I started boiling with a full 5 gallons, but when I siphoned into the fermenter, I found that I had a little over 4 (boiling off water and what not). Do I add enough...

Hey, So what do you guys use to strain the hops/grain out of your wort?

Do you need to sanitize your brewpot before you boil? It seems like that would be just sanitizing it twice since you'd boil the germs away. I ask because I'm wondering if a stainless steel brewpot is worth the price. From what I can glean for what I've read, the only real upside to SS is the...

So I think I want to start home brewing, sounds like a fun hobby, but I don't want to make crappy beer and it seems the brewing systems are either like 100 bucks or 2000. Is there a middle ground or can you make quality beer in cheap systems?