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The waitress is getting married might be the best episode ever! Charlie is gold in that episode, he tells his date he is a full on rapist, in fact the whole restaurant scene is genius, milk steak, raw jelly beans, sweaty shirts....genius. so let me pop a quick H on this box so we know it's...

But if it ages in a secondary for a couple months it might be hard to bottle condition since very little yeast would be in suspension after that amount of time. So keep that in mind.

What? This got moved to the drunkin ramblings forum. I was hoping for an answer

This may sound like a stupid question, but what are light crystals?

Today my brew day started out with me smacking my Wyeast smack pack so hard it blew up in my kitchen. The first time i used a smack pack I didn't hit it hard enough and when I went to add my yeast I noticed I hadn't popped the inner package. So, every time since then when I use them I smack...

Should I toast my oats in the oven or not? I've seen recipes that do and some do not. I'm interested in how it will affect the final beer and mash efficiency. I'm doing a BIAB partial mash oatmeal stout. 1.5 lb 2 row 1 lb oats .75 lb chocolate malt .75 lb victory .5 lb crystal 80 .5...

The thing I like most about "Brewing Classic Styles" is that it focuses on extract brewing and extract with steeping specialty grains. But it's less about recipe formulation, and more of an expanded BJCP style guide with example recipes. Granted their logic is, once you throughly understand...

I did a quick look at "How to Brew" and it seems like yes, a beta-glucanse rest is only to ease lautering difficulties.

If you are using a blow off tube then you have no prob with 3068. ....you might want to consider a $12 6 gal ale pale. Seems like a hassle to mess with a 2 gal bucket and 2 one gallon jugs.

The BJCP guidelines for a Kolsch are between 4.4% and 5.2%, and according to the wiki https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Imperial "Imperial is a term sometimes used to describe a beer that is brewed to a significantly higher original gravity, and therefore a significantly higher...

Yes, you can leave your blow off tube hooked up until you are ready to bottle. I personally switch to an airlock (even though there is a small risk of infection in the process) for aesthetic reasons. I don't like looking a big gunky tube coming out of my fermentor.

How long were they in your trunk?

Just keep in mind, If you are going to use the two year old cans of extract, your beer won't turn out as well as if you had used fresh ingredients.

My guess is that your recipe was for a two or two and a half gallon batch and you made five gallons. It would explain the low og. Most "kit and kilo" recipes are small batches.

When using adjuncts, like rice, it is important to look at the diastatic power of your malts. You want your mash to have an average power of around 40 Lintner for good conversion of starch. Your recipe uses pilsner (DP of 60) and munich (DP of 40) to convert a large amount of rice (no diastatic...