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Trying to narrow down an AIO to finally get. Any help is appreciated. Background: I have been brewing for a bit over 10 years now. The last 2 years though I’ve made maybe 1-2 batches. A lot of it is that I have a family now but also the process. I started with extract brewing and quickly...

So, I have a dual pressure regulator- one that hooks to a manifold for normal level beers and a special one by itself. Right now I have a dunkelweizen on tap. It is sitting about 15 PSI at 38* giving me about the right vols for the style (beer line is slightly longer on it too). It tastes...

Looking to make this but doing a slightly higher than half bill of dark wheat and then filling it out with pilsner and munich nets me too low of an SRM for the style. Both dark wheat and munich are about 9 SRM. Even if I go with Munich 20L, I can't hit the style marker. Is Carawheat...

This is one style that I'm studying that I can't seem to get a hold of after reading books and a few articles online. What is a typical grain bill for this style? From what I see, it can be - about 60+% of your base malt (either 2 row or Maris Otter if you want a slightly more biscuit...

So I did a brown ale 1.5 months back and harvested the yeast. I have about half a mason quart jar (and this is yeast, not a trub/yeast slurry). Is it ok to just pitch this directly into the next batch after warming to fermentation temp or should I make a starter? I seem to recall an earlier...

Looking to see what other people have done. I have a recipe where the chocolate is 3.2% of the grain bill (just a smidge under 5 oz). The malt is Munton British Chocolate malt and is roughly about 500SRM. I thought about just milling and mashing since it is so low an amount and I think I might...

Searched but no dice. Anyone have any luck with putting a 5L starter on a 2L stirplate? I make some larger starters for lagers and in the past I've borrowed another 2L and stirplate. I'd like to get a 5L flask but do I need to buy a new stirplate as well? I know the answer is that I should but...

Ok, between me, my brother, and my fiancee, we developed an idea to turn an old whiskey barrel into a kegerator. It has went well up until we got to cooling it. I had bought an old mini fridge off craigslist and we hooked that up but it only cools to about 51*. My question really is will a...

I am making two 2L yeast starters for my Oktoberfest coming up since i don't have a 5L flask or anything (that and the packets are old). Anyway, both flasks were cleaned and sanitized before use. Both had 1.035 OG at the start and have been fine. I topped them both with aluminum foil. The one...

I've heard things about both WL and Wyeast's kolsch yeasts. What do you guys prefer? I'm looking for a slight fruitiness but I also want it to clear in about 2 months lagering time (which each should be able to do.)

Am I looking for trouble with doing this? Wanted to throw my two Wyeast packs into one 2L starter to get enough for my Oktoberfest lager. If I use just enough DME, I can maybe get the cells I need according to brewersfriend. Otherwise, would it be better to do one pack in it, let it sit for a...

Anybody have one of these done in like 2014 or (if you're on the ball) 2015? I see there is a 2011 one on here but I'm looking for a more recent one to make sure my water settings are right. Just looking into finally tweaking my water to make my beers taste good/authentic/best they can.

I use the Avery 5408 stickers and the design and print application from them. No matter what the settings, some of my labels on the right go off the sticker. What size and settings should I have for the printer?

So...I have some stuff saved in the cloud and it was deleted accidentally (whole long story) but there was an excel sheet of ingredients that had what it was, whether to boil or secondary, time needed, etc. Nothing fancy but I'm looking to get that back and I can't seem to find it. Also...

Having what I consider some weird issues. The basic issue is that I seem to be getting good efficiency but start running into issues with not getting enough pre-boil volume. I am doing all grain and I fly sparge and here's the scenarios over two batches: 1) First was an amber clone of a local...

I'm not one to run scared but I think my batch is infected. Just wanting to confirm. Basically, brewed the Oktoberfast ale recipe and I think I killed the yeast when I rehydrated (more than 105* temp) and pitched. Nothing happened for a few days. I go get another packet to repitch and this is...

So I'm looking to make the move to AG. Debating between building a mash tun (and maybe HLT) or buying a kit. I've seen that NB is having a sale on gift cards so I was looking at their Fermenter's Favorite 10 gallon kit (here-...

Traveling there soon enough and seeing as the newest thread about breweries in the area is a few years old, I'm seeing what all you guys recommend checking out while I'm there. I refuse to go to the Bud plant but I'm willing to hit up any other breweries/brewpubs while I'm there. Any ideas...

So I've brewed two batches so far (one in the bottle and one still in the primary.) My second batch (still in the primary) is supposed to be 1.065-9 OG and end up with ~7% when done (so 1.015 or so roughly.) My OG (with my corrected refractometer) looked about 1.078 at the start (a bit high...