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I haven't used acid malt before and some how I managed to read 0.75 oz as 0.75 lbs. Needless to say, I messed up my milk stout. What is this going to do to my beer? It dropped my pH to 4.72 according to brewfather. I also put it in with the base malt for apx 55 min (but before steeping grains)...

I am looking forward to planning a brew shed for myself. Well, 1/3 of it will be a guest room/office as well. I am trying to take note of as much information I can find on this page as possible but figured I would go straight to the sources. I have 200 sq ft to work with, probably leaning to 20...

I bought the wrong malt and now I have about 4 lbs of crystal malt 120 taking up space in my bins. I’ve been slowly picking away at it but it’s getting to a point I need to use it or toss it. Anyone have a decent recipe (or two) that will use up a good chunk of this? I’d hate to see it go to waste.

I came across a beer kit for Mikkeler's Beer Geek Breakfast Stout and the reviews were pretty good. This sent me down a rabbit hole and it appears people raving about it. So naturally, I found a recipe (see below) and brewed it this weekend. Against my better judgement I didn't tame the roasted...

I just got my water report back from Ward's lab and I'm a bit surprised it has changed as much as it has. I'm on a well and I knew it would, but it was still a bit surprising. We even have an iron filter. I am a bit disappointed as I really didn't want to have to buy water for beer. Adjusting...

I have a couple batches that aren't perfect as the gravity is either too high or too low. I don't particularly want to drink mediocre beer and so I am playing with ideas to experiment. However I would rather drink mediocre beer than toss either batch. I haven't brewed long enough to know all the...

I brewed a Mexican lager ~3 weeks ago. I just began my lagering and figured I would take a taste out of curiousity. I was worried this beer would turn out too thin because I had to add water to get the beer over the temperature probe in my CF10 for the temp control. AFter adding water, the OG...

I made a 1 gal Stout/Porter hybrid a couple months ago and absolutely loved it. I was sad to only have a few bottles of it so I made a 5 gal batch recently. 1 gal was done on the stove and 5 gal in spike solo. All Temps were pretty similar but I recently noticed my kitchen thermometer may read a...

I have been looking at recipes for a kolsch. off the top of my head, Palmer's book says ~7 lbs pilsner, 3.3 lbs vienna. Brewing classic styles says ~10 lbs Pilsner, 0.25 Lbs vienna. Radical brewing doesn't have a specific Kolsch recipe just blonde ale's. The internet is somewhere between this...

I am sure this has been discussed on this website I just can't find it. I have seen lots of fermentation completion time, temp and attenuation talk, but not fermentation start time. I have a apx 2 gal nut brown second runnings at 1.040 that hasn't done much in 4 days. I use the 2nd runnings to...

I bought a 1-gallon keg to bring beer to dinners, etc. it seems to carbonate when it comes out of the keg. Almost too much foam. When I purge gas comes out. Even though the foam has stayed a bit the beer tastes basically entirely flat. It’s had weeks under pressure. Could it be the beer...

Hey everyone. I am relatively new to brewing (about 20 beers brewed and 6 ciders); this is also my first time posting here. I hate taking gravity readings and I'm always worried about increasing the chances of infecting the beer (or wasting it in a small 1 g batch). I use a combination of 1...