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For the past year i have been using the 5 gallon bottling bucket from the Brewer's Best kit. It had worked great but i need more. :) A friend and i are brewing the beer for his wedding so we have significantly upped or game. Did 20 gallons of apple wine as separate batches, but with the...

I want to experiment more and thinking of trying a 1 gal batch of gruit using the grain bill from my Citra ipa, bittering with yarrow and flavoring with cilantro, lime zest, and Serrano chili. Does anyone have tips for using these ingredients?

I'm trying to copy the saison recipe from funkwerks in ft. Collins , Co. Ingredients: 1.13 # Munich 10L 1.13 # wheat malt 9 # pilsner malt .7oz opal 60 min .5oz opal 15 min 1 oz opal flame out .5oz opal du hop 7 days The question I have is that it says to mash at 90 degrees F. And doesn't say...

I have had good results washing my yeast but an looking to try harvesting some from commercial brews. Mainly looking for a good Belgian strain that could handle a trippel and a saison for a pomegranate cherry saison this summer. Any ideas on beers to look for in Colorado that have their primary...

I was thinking of trying this and wondering if anyone else already had. http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe Looks like a pretty simple recipe. Probably just clean out leftover hops for the boring unless anyone has a great suggestion for me. Sent from my...

I thought I was ready to bottle but not sure anymore. This is my first IPA but also my first all grain. My original brew date was 1/18 and I started dry hopping it on 2/3 after abou 2 1/2 weeks. I added my last dry hops yesterday 2/12 to bottle this weekend. Yesterday and today I had airlock...

You know you've arrived as a home brewer when you have Fat Tire cold in the fridge and you reach for a home brew instead. Damn I've made some good beer. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

I had a picture of a chocolate porter flavored with rose petals. Has anyone ever used rose petals in their homebrew? Curious how the flavor blends and how much is needed. I've seen dandelion porter but not rose petals. Could be fun right? Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

I recently had a Sam Adams chocolate cherry boch. Does anyone have a recipe that would help me get close with a chocolate cherry stout? I'd be looking to do either a 5 gal extract or a 3 gal all grain. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

May be too late for this batch... I'm only a few batches in but tried my first all grain batch. Citra double IPA clone. Came close to the target og but had rinsed the grains with a little to much water so more beer but lower gravity. It is bubbling nicely now. How do you deal with the sediment...

Brew day for batch #4, double oatmeal coffee stout. I will be starting about 9am...all the instructions say "relax and have a home brew"... is 9am too early for a homebrew on an occasion like brew day. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

I bottled my first batch (Belgian tripel) 6 weeks ago and have been enjoying it ever since. .. til last night. The bottle I cracked open had a bit of a banana flavor and little head retention. So far it is the only bottle I've had issue with our of the 5 gal batch (8 bottles left). All the...

I've done several extract brews but I feel like there is more fun to be had and want to try an ag. I was thinking of doing the mash in my 5 gal kettle, using my bottling bucket and a 2nd bucket (drilled for a false bottom) for my lauter tun. I will probably have to use another pan to heat sparge...

I'm doing an adaptation of the Cherries in the Snow from the Jow of Homebrewing. 8.5 lbs light malt extract syrup 1.5 oz. Tettnang (boiling) .5 oz. Tettnang (finishing) Then berries will be added to the secondary rather than at burnout like the recipe states (also using raspberries rather than...

I am starting a batch this weekend that will be a light ale. Then adding raspberries to the secondary, 2 pounds/gal for a 5 gal batch. How active will the secondary fermentation be? Wondering if my carboy can handle it or if I might need to think about splitting the batch.

My next batch will be the "Cherries in the Snow" recipe from the Joy of Home Brewing. I was wanting to use raspberries instead but since they are more fragile than cherries I don't think that I should boil them. Will they flavor the beer enough if I add them to the secondary? And is using...

I started my 1st batch using the brewer's best belgian Tripel kit. Og started off at 1.083 after a week I racked to the carboy and it was at 1.029. After 3 days and now 7 it tested both times at 1.027. The kit recommended leaving in the carboy for 2 weeks (still have 1 more week) but the final...

I've heard that you can reuse the yeast simply by racking the beer to your secondary and the fresh wort onto the yeast cake in the primary. I was planning to do 2 beers both using an ale yeast and wondering if I would pick up undesirable flavors in my second beer if I did this. The first beer...