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Upgraded to an industrial sized stir plate so I don't need this anymore. Works great and comes with and stir bar. You can check them out here. I'm Asking $35 shipped CONUS and PayPal only. Thanks!

Hello all, I made a Belgian Strong Ale, OG was 1.106 and FG is 1.013 after 3 weeks :rockin::tank: I just racked into secondary with 2 LBS of frozen cherries (should I add more cherries?) How long can these cherries sit in the beer? I poorly planned this and perhaps I should have let this...

I consistently achieve my estimated pre-boil gravity but after the boil I always miss the OG by 5 or so points. What am I doing wrong? I'm too lazy to add DME at the end of my boil to reach my desired OG :drunk:

My lord is this beer good. I totally recommend it. Og was about 1066 FG 1013. Sweet/smokey taste in the beginning then a nice smooth burn in the back of your throat in the end. I cut 5-6 chipotle peppers and put them in a muslin bag for 4 days. This results in the perfect heat for me. Great beer...

My lord is this beer good. I totally recommend it. Og was about 1066 FG 1013. Sweet/smokey taste in the beginning then a nice smooth burn in the back of your throat in the end. I cut 5-6 chipotle peppers and put them in a muslin bag for 4 days. This results in the perfect heat for me. Great beer...

I've been brewing now for a couple years. Since brewing AG I've noticed this with all my beers. I brewed extract beers for about a year before making the plunge to AG. With extract my FG was always spot on (typical for extract brews). With AG about 99% of my beers have a FG of 1.008 - 1.011. I...

I just ordered this kit (AG version of course). Has anybody ever tried it? It has a couple hop shots used for bittering, which I've never used before.

Do you think this is krausen? I normally keg, first time I've seen this in bottles. Maybe fermentation in the bottle left behind some krausen, could be infection or yeast sediment. Beer has been bottled for 2 weeks now, almost every bottle has this sediment in the neck of the bottle. What do you...

Hello brewmasters! I received a dark star burner from Northern Brewer and had issues with it immediately. I was bummed out because I sold my bayou burner on CL the day before my new burner arrived in the mail. My bayou burner performed great and the new burner didn't. I would get black soot all...

By far the largest starter I've had to make. I'm making a coffee stout with an estimated OG of 1074. Northern Brewer sent me a pack of Wyeast 1968 ESB Ale that's 40 days old. According to a yeast calculator I needed a 2L starter. I am a bit nervous that this will over flow. I put it on the stir...

I have been brewing AG for a couple months. I get about 80-85% efficiency with my setup and I am just realizing that I need to adjust the recipe to keep the beer within style correct? I was inputing a recipe into beer smith from Northern Brewer and the expected OG is off the chart due to my...

I ordered a recipe all grain kit, dark star burner, a pound of smoked cherrywood malt, and a barley crusher mill from Northern Brewer. I have a UPS MyChoice account and it's showing that the burner and mill was shipped from Midwest Supplies. Is this normal business for online homebrew shops? I...

So I am piecing together the bacon beer recipe from northern brewer but I can't find bacon extract. NB doesn't sell it and only provides it in their kit. Any idea where I can purchase this ingredient? I tried Whole foods and Trader Joes with no luck. I can order on amazon but it's super...

Since I started drinking homebrew a year ago I've noticed the hangovers are much worse vs drinking commercial beer. The tradeoff is worth drinking great beer however. Anybody else have the same experience?

Hey guys I have a quick question as I will be mashing in a couple hours. I am making the centennial blonde recipe which has 9 pounds total grain. Beersmith is telling me to mash with 3 gallons of strike water and sparge with 5.2 gallons. My problem is the pot I use to heat up strike/sparge water...

Gotta love early morning brews! Cheers:mug:

My pumpkin ale that I made back in October. This is one of the last beers. Each one of the 50 beers looked like this. http://youtu.be/4bw1x7wVmDg

I'm going to make a black IPA and according to beersmith the IBU's will be 102. The recipe calls for 1oz of dry hop for 7 days after primary fermentation. Is this really necessary since the IBU's are so high?

Anybody brew this recipe? There's not many reviews for it....http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-SmokeBomb.pdf

New AG brewer here. So what's the difference between marris otter, two row, six row, etc etc. Specialty grains are a given so I'm just wondering about base malt. Unless certain base malts must be used with certain specialty grains.