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I finally got round to brewing again, 1st time since October. Life got in the way, 2 deaths (both my wife's parents - within 8 months of each other) and 2 weddings. But yesterday i attempted my first lager - a pilsner style used north star pilsner malt and hopped with hallertau mittlefrau...

Good day all. finally getting to brew again after numerous setbacks to health and life in general. I have put together a stout/porter recipe with some grains I have left over. heres what I have so far, any suggestions are welcomed. I do also have around 11oz of brown malt and around 6oz of...

Good day all, I brewed a clone recipe of a bells two hearted. All grain It has currently been in fermenter for 11 days and has dropped from1.066 down to around 1.024 @ 70 degrees , Started out at 67 degrees Tilt is saying 1.020 and hydrometer is at 1.024 - Question - as it's been sat there for...

Afternoon all, I just became a Brewfather premium member, and need a little guidance on equipment profile. I have a electric kal clone system- 3- 20 gallon pots- herms system. Does any one have a brew father profile I could look over. As I'm not sure I have got mine set up correctly. Thanks Dean

Happy holiday weekend all, I was bought some malts as a gift and want to produce a stout- Done them before but some of these ingridients i havent used Here goes I have a 55lb sack Briess pale ale malt- I thinks there's around 40lbs left( this is over a year and a half old and has been kept...

Good afternoon fellow brewers, I brewed a pale ale last Saturday, bulk of fermentation is now complete. from 1.042 down to 1.013. Just slowly increasing temps from 66 to 70/72. To bring it down to around 1.009 Just trying to figure out best time to dry hop, around now or wait until beer is...

Using US05. In a pale ale. it’s the first time I have rehydrated and boy what a difference. The pack of yeast had a use by 5/19 date. Huge Krasen and had to install a blowoff tube. after reading different temps to rehydrate at. I did it at 102 degrees left it for 20 minutes stirred and left...

The time has finally arrived, going to brew a pale ale on new basement system. Will be using just El Dorado hops. Here's the recipe I created with what I have in grains wise 5 gallon into keg. 8lb marris otter 3lb Vienna 8oz Caramel 50( i also have around 8 oz of honey malt) El dorado 0.5...

Good day all, Just putting together a quick Pale/IPA recipe for a first brew on new equipment, And never really done my own recipe. I haven't plugged anything into any brew software yet, just wanting some feedback. Thanks 5 gallon batch 10lb marris otter 2lb vienna 2 oz Caramel 50 (unsure...

Good day all, So I'm about to do my first brew on my Kal clone 20 gallon brewing system. Where i work they thanked me for all I have done during Covid by buying me a lot of brewing ingredients. I will list them and hopefully get your feedback on what I should brew. I am wanting to do a pale...

Good day all The day is nearly upon me, basement brewery build just about complete and need to Auto tune the HLT pid. ( Nervous for the first brew) I'm probably overthinking this, but when auto tuning, should I fill the HLT to its full 20 gallon or is around 10 gallon fine. Yes I'm crazy but...

Hi all, I planted this Magnum hop rhizome on April 16th. shes doing well I think. i got 5 different hops plants and didn’t plant they other 4 until mid may. We had unusually cool april and may here in Maryland All 5 are growing but the other 4 haven't been strung up yet. I know. I know. At...

So after what seems a lifetime. I am finally back on homebrew talk. Took a hiatus as I was constantly bombarded with pop ups that made the site unusable. During that time. I have finally got all my spike kettles put together and finally last Friday had the waterproof non slip floor coating...

Hi all, I am wanting to produce a chocolate smores milk stout for a party in November( im from England and party is for guy Fawkes/ bonfire night) here in the USA. I am thinking of using this base recipe Amt Name Type # %/IBU 13 lbs 6.2 oz Pale Ale, Finest Maris Otter (Simpsons) (2.5 SRM)...

Good day all, So just wanted to start work on water profiles. This is my first attempt and hopefully I got this somewhere close. I will be brewing Cream of 3 crops cream ale. So have the profile set as Yellow dry. Please see the screen shots I took of the adjustment summary page. Not sure...

not sure how well you can all see. But do you think my Herms coil is in correctly. Or should I cut more off the stubs to try to get her more central. I’m clear on all sides of kettle but on one side I’m closer to kettle wall. Thanks all.

So we moved into our new home just before thanksgiving,and hopefully will have the new brewery up and running in next few months. This will be a huge step up, from just brewing with the mash and boil in our old Condo bathroom. I posted a thread a short while ago about mounting power unit,then...

So have just about all my parts and i am assembling the kettles,elements etc, just wondering how you all have mounted your Epanels. These things are heavy, was hoping to use some kind of TV Wall mount, Didnt want to mount plywood on wall then panel to that, but that may be the only option I...

Hi all, Has any one ordered from the above website lately, Placed a order a week ago for the diy heating element kit and not had a shipping email yet, does anyone know how long it normally takes for shipping info to be emailed.

hi all, I am just about to make the move to a 3 kettle herms electric brew system. Just bought my control panel today from electricbrewsupply. This will be modelled on Kals electric brewing system. I dont want to spend $1300 on 3 blichmanns, and wondered what a more budget friendly kettle...