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I want to try cold crashing my smash (vienna/Northern brewer). I also want to dry hop it. I was told you should cold crash for 5-7 days. If so do i still dry hop 5 days before bottling? Is dry hopping efficient while the beer is cold crashing? does anyone have any idea of what hop would go...

I brewed 2 brown ales, exactly the same beers and exactly the same yeast (used an WLP002 english ale yeast). The first beer is in a glass fermenter. The second beer is in a glass fermenter and put into a bucket filled with water (like a swamp cooler). The temperature of the water is...

it's my friends 40th bday in a couple of months and she's asked me to make a beer for her party. she generally drinks west coast ipa...she also loves the color red. i was thinking of making a hoppy amber ale. i'm not familiar with making recipes as yet so i wanted some advise. also not sure how...

Hey guys. I want to add bourbon to a beer I'm thinking of making. Question is @ what stage do I do this ? I've heard right after your finish chilling and ur about to rake ur beer into the fermenter and I've also heard u add whiskey about 3-5 days before bottling. Can anyone provide insight ...

i'd like to do a 1 Gallon lambic sour beer. what do you think of this recipe? 1.5lbs pils malt 1oz acidulated malt 8oz torrified wheat 1/2 pound raspberries 1/4 ounces Tettnanger/hallertau (whichever i have in stock) added @ 30min raspberries added the last 15min of boil. dry...

Has anybody used this dry yeast before? i used it for the first time. Normally I use S-05 or S-04 and a krausen forms and visible fermentation takes place within 12-18 hours. When I used this yeast I didn't get any activity for 36 hours! There was absolutely no Krausen forming and thought...

I want to do 2 1gallon batches using liquid yeast. I normally use dry yeast so I want 2 compare using a liquid yeast. At this point I don't want 2 make a starter until I see the results of liquid yeast vs dry yeast. The yeast I happen to have is a Wyeast Smack-pack. Can I brew a beer and...

Do you guys boil water to you exact strike temperature to meet the temp u want 2 mash @ or do you go a couple of degrees higher? Ive noticed that once I pour the water in my mash tun and stir for a minute or so I lose 2 degrees. Would it hurt aiming for a higher temperature ? My main concern is...

hi guys i'm new to brewing and want to experiement with some smash recipes. Just wanted to get your opinion on what temperature I should mash these at and what you think about these 2 combos? Theses are 5 gallons: 1. 10 lbs Vienna/3 oz Amarillo - hops added - 1.5oz @ 60min/0.5oz @ 30min/0.5oz...

i'm planning on doing a pumpkin beer and adding the pumpkin in the mash. i'm just wondering how this effects my water/grain ratio. normally i mash in 1.25 per pound of grain - should i increase this ratio with the pumpkin, or just treat amount of pumpkin as if it were grain? Also in...

hey everyone, I'm thinking of brewing a gingerbread beer i found. the recipe is: 76% english pale ale 4% chocolate 10 % cara 40 10% cara 80 hops = centennial and hallertau other = cinnamon, cloves, candied ginger and i'm using a nottingham yeast my local homebrew doesn't have...

I'm making my first wheat beer 50% pale wheat/25% pilsner/25%munich...that is slightly hoppy. I was told with brewing wheat beers that u need to bottle after visible fermentation has stopped (3-4 days) and no priming sugar is needed....I'm guessing u do this to get the yeast flavors in the...

I'm making the following beer: 57% abbey malt 6% chocolate 6% cara 40 6% cara 80 20% smoked 5% flaked barley hop is EK Goldings. What temperature should I mash at if I want at least a medium bodied beer? I've been playing around with mash temperature and had some hit n misses. I...

Just wondering when you calculate efficiency do you use your pre-boil volume or final boil volume? my pre-boil volume is 5.75G but after I boil I'm aiming for 5. So not sure when I divide by 5.75 or 5?! I normally take a reading soon after mashing. thanks in advance for everyone's help!

i'm making a jalapeno beer. i've read online that people put the jalapenos right into the primary fermenter. the recipe says to put them in at the 50 minute boil and don't put them in the fermenter. would there be any benefit of putting them in the fermenter? i won't be transferring this into...

I have the following recipe: 17% munich 30% Belgian Pils 15% caramunich 34% smoked 4% flaked Barley the recipe calls for Hallertau and Saaz hops. and I'm using Safale S-05 yeast. just wondering if i can substitute hallertau for East Kent Goldings or Challenger since i already have...

so i went to my LHBS and bought a MLT. i brewed my 2nd beer however i ran into the problem with my mashtun temp getting too cold. as advised on this forum i did heat it up prior with boiling water. then i added the appropriate strike water (according to the calculation). my temperature...

I'm trying to calculate HBU (manually). I've read a few things online that say: AAU*amount of hops in ounces = HBU. however, i came across this website http://www.picobrewery.com/askarchive/hoprate.html that says HBU is equal to AAU*amount of hops in ounces*extraction efficiency (based on...

I'm new to homebrewing and i'm not at the stage yet to revise/create recipes. 2 questions I needed help with: 1. i'm making 5gal batches and i wanted to use up the ingredients i have left from my last couple of brews (all grain). i currently have: 2lbs Belgian Pils 1.5lbs Biscuit...

I just got a mash tun cooler - do you guys take apart the tap to clean and sanitize it ? Another question...I'm using an ice bath to chill my wort. Should I whirlpool right away, put the lid on and leave it ? Online there seems to be different theories to whirlpool hot or cold. Last...