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I finally have the space and equipment to do a 5 gallon brew and am pretty excited after a long hiatus (health related, not related to beer). My question is around propane burner safety. I'm somewhat nervous as I've seen so many horror stories around their usage and I tend to be the overly...

I'm finally getting back to homebrewing again and can finally do full 5gal batches with a propane burner. I threw this recipe together based on my inventory. I'm going for something along the lines of Jenlain Ambree but not trying to clone it. Thoughts? 5 Gal Fermentables Amount...

My first sour, a Flanders Red style beer, has about 8 months under it's belt and I'd like to start measuring and tasting. However, it has a pellicle and I've never had to work with one of these before! What's the best/proper way to pull samples from a pellicle'd beer? Is it common to get some...

At the start of the year I brewed my first sour beer. I dumped the wort into a better bottle to ferment. After a few days it really started going and pushed the airlock off leaving yeast all over the top of the inside of the vessel. Since then much of it has dried. I was planning to rack off the...

I used a better bottle for the first sour I've ever done. The yeast really went nuts and ended up pushing the airlock off. In the process a lot of yeast got stuck on the top and aides of the better bottle. Pretty much the entire cone area up through the neck has a layer of drying yeast. I've had...

I came back from work today to find my flanders red fermenting in the kitchen had pushed off it's stopper and air lock and did some overflowing. Since this is my first real sour ale using bugs I was wondering if there was anything special I that is suggested other than normal soap and water. I...

I'll be starting my first sour ale in about an hour and am really excited! I'll be using a BIAB and was curious what the best simple mash profile for the style would be in peoples opinions. Most of my brews I do a simple 1 temp mash with the occasional rise up at the end. Is a single temp medium...

After reading this post it hit me I've been keeping my Bret B in my fridge for the last 3 weeks. This will be my first attempt at using Bret and was planning on using it in secondary. Roughly how much damage did I do and should I do a starter if it is still usable? Should I go buy another WL...

Saw this today. Interesting idea and looks pretty good but $2,700 seems like quite a bit. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cargo/brewbot-the-smart-brewing-appliance

I've done a few BiaB's now using the same bag. It seems to work fine. I'm starting to get worried though as it's starting to stain (especially after my last two dark beers). I also always have an issue where I can not get all of the old grain out. There is always some that sticks and stays. For...

This was my first all grain brew. Everything went well on brew day. No issues. However, the end result is pretty lack luster. I was going for something easy, small and light and what I got was something really, really light with little flavor. It doesn't taste bad, it just doesn't taste like...

My Saison is bottled and just finished it's third week of carbonating. Nothing went wrong on brew day and it went all the way down to 1.003 or so during fermentation. Most of my other brews have been in the 5% range and were pretty drinkable after a few weeks in the bottle. For this style and...

Just noticed this today in my 3 gal Hefe. It's roughly 1 week through and hit FG and none of my other batches have had this white stuff on the mid/top right. Thoughts?

I'm still very green to brewing but I want to be able to get some of the learning experience that SMaSH gives. People seem to have different views of how hops taste and smell (my girlfriend swears IPA's are sweet) which leads me to believe first hand experience of how one experiences hops is the...

I have an APA which is nearly at its FG. I was planning on dry hopping but then it hit me that according to my schedule I'd be dry hopping while the yeast cleans up. Should I wait a week post hitting FG to dry hop or is dry hopping and letting the yeast clean up something that can happen in...

There are two things I'm trying for in this first recipe: 1. A sub 6% ABV IPA 2. Use one kind of hops to help better my understanding of how it specifically influences the taste and aroma. Does this look sane? Recipe: Test Batch #3 Brewer: Steve Asst Brewer: Style: American IPA...

It just occurred to me that, while other people seem to put a filter on while auto siphoning, I did not. I left the trub whil racking from primary and what seemed like a decent amount of hops while racking from secondary to bottle bucket but is there harm in having actual hop particles from a...

Many months back I tried brewing my first beer. It was a hefeweizen and I made a ton of mistakes which impacted flavor (though the aroma was amazing). A few weeks ago I decided to try again with an American IPA. While brewing this second batch it was became even more obvious to me what I did...

I have to admit the pessimism train was running hard for me. I felt like I made so many mistakes that things were going to fail hard. My first look wasn't so successful but my second look was much, much better (some pics posted)! :rockin: Funny thing, last night I had a dream where on my...

Today is bottling day. Or it was until I used star san and realized all of the warning associated with using it. Apparently if you touch the stuff you need to wash your hands for 20 minutes and call poison control. I'm not sure how you guys do it (gloves and protected clothing while...