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I brewed a brown ale yesterday that was targeted to hit 1.055 but finished as 1.044 with my recipe already adjusted to a 65% efficiency. I use a water pump to rinse my grains as a crude way of sparging but I realized that I've been doing this at around 150 degrees rather than 168, and only for a...

This post is for a sour mash belgian apricot ale. Apologies for the rambling! I made the delightfully smelling sour mash, boiled for an hour with 4 hop additions, joined the wort with a belgian ale yeast and fermented for 2 weeks. I collected a sour yeast from the bottom of a Funkwerks sour...

I'm sure this thread is around somewhere, but did I ruin my hops by attempting to dry them in the oven? They smell somewhat sweet and I've read about getting grassy flavors by over heating. I still have half of my harvest to do the right way if I really messed this one up. Thanks

I recently fell in love with the aroma of a Juniper IPA that I had at the Blackrocks Brewing Co. in Marquette, MI. I want to recreate the juniper aroma along with some "piney" hints (chinook or simcoe from what I've been seeing). I also want to add a light smokey flavor and add a deeper color...

I recently fell in love with the aroma of a Juniper IPA that I had at the Blackrocks Brewing Co. in Marquette, MI. I want to recreate the juniper aroma along with some "piney" hints (chinook or simcoe from what I've been seeing). I also want to add a light smokey flavor and add a deeper color...

I'm going to manufacture my own conical fermenter and copper boiler this summer. I really need some advice from those brave few who have embarked on this troublesome journey. I'm considering 11ga 316L Stainless sheet stock and and 11ga 172 Beryllium Copper at a 10 to 15 gallon capacity with...