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I'd like some advice from more experience brewers on how I should be conditioning my beer. Here is my current process. Brew -> Ferment -> Cold crash-> Keg beer -> Force carb at kegerator temps -> Keep it in the kegerator at about 3-4c for a few weeks to age/condition. I feel that with this...

The other day I brewed 10 gallon batch, but at the end of brew I forgot to get a gravity reading. Usually I collect wort at the end of boil after a good stir, but this time I collected a sample from the top of the fermenting bucket just before pitching. The wort had sat for about half an hour in...

I was just wondering if malt usage is mostly interchangeable by color. For instance, would I be able to make a recipe that uses malts from Weyermann and instead use equal lovibond malts that are produced by Briess and come pretty close to the same flavor? I know it's not as simple as this...

I bought some corny kegs from a friend, but they're all gummed up on the posts and poppet, as well as lid where the large gasket sits. These kegs haven't been used for a couple of years. I tried using dish soap to clean it off as well as PBW, but the sticky residue is still there. Aside from...

Fair enough, but just out of curiosity, how do you suspect commercial breweries accomplish brewing an NEIPA?

Yes, I believe that's incorrect. I've read some threads on it as well as messaged some of the guys who brewed NEIPAs and they mentioned the did cold crash.

To add that although the beer seemed to attenuated to the expected % and stay consistent over 3 days, I'm still surprised that the krausen dropped so quickly. This leads me to the question of using a chest freezer as a fermenter. So the way it works is the same with any temp controller. I set it...

[This was also posted in all-grain brewing.] I've tried brewing an NEIPA and after tasting it I get a cidery flavor and not much in aroma or hop flavor. I understand that acetaldehyde/cidery flavor come from not giving yeast time to clean up, but this yeast dropped very fast and I wanted to...

This is something that confuses me a bit about NEIPA, as you're supposed to dry hop while fermentation is still going on, but only supposed to dry hop for 3ish days am I right?

I've tried brewing an NEIPA and after tasting it I get a cidery flavor and not much in aroma or hop flavor. Could anyone please give me some ideas as to what might be going on and how to fix it? My recipe is about 70% pale malt, 10% vienna, 15% flaked wheat, 5% flaked oat. My water is about...

Sorry I'm at work right now so I don't have pics, but I now know that the terminology is called a check valve. I was asking if I could just put a beer check valve on the open ended beer-out part of the coupler. I found on other boards that many of them use coins to block this side off while...

Sorry I don't know all of the terminology but I have an S-Type keg that I am filling with beer. This is the first time I've done it and I think the guy who sold me the coupler and fittings perhaps forgot to give me a piece to close one side off (maybe). Is it ok if I have the an open-ended...

Well, damn.. Rainy season did just start in South Vietnam and I do remember it coming down pretty hard for the better part of the day that day. O_O :mug:

I recently bought an electric homebrewing kit that a guy in my area builds. They are pretty well built, however I had a difficult time getting the boil kettle to reach 100c. It would get to 99.2c at max power and still not reach 100. I asked him what was up with it and he told me that the...

Going through the forums I see that several people recommend a book called Beer Companion by Michael Jackson. However, when I go onto Amazon the book looks super old and they don't sell new copies. It looks like one of those books on animals from the early 90s when I was an elementary school...