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I'm planning my next brew, a honey cream ale. I want to play with honey and get a little of the flavor into the beer, but not overpower it. Here's what I have, suggestions? 4 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) 2 lbs Pale Malt (6 Row) US (2.0 SRM)...

So I made my first yeast starter this weekend with 1/2 lb DME in 1.8 liters of water. Pitched the whole flask into 5 gallons of RIS with an OG of 1.102. After pitching, my OG was 1.092, but I already had alcohol in the starter. So how does one go about calculating the ABV of the beer? The...

Our next club competition is a sub 4% beer, any style, so I came up with a recipe for an "amber" that I hope will have a little flavor. I'm thinking combo between Amber and cream ale, thus some corn and some chocolate malt. I thought the citra hops would give some good citrus flavor, without...

I just wanted to post an update after a year of brewing. It started last year with my wife's gift to me of a Brewer's Best American Pale Ale kit and starter brewing setup. It was great, and I was hooked. I joined my local home-brew club, and was amazed by the great beer everyone was making. I...

OK, I am feeling pretty sick right now. I had 5 gallons of brown ale finally carbed up pretty nicely, but had been battling a leaky keg. So this afternoon with some spare time, decided to check the seals and see where the leak might be. I gassed up the keg, and sprayed some detergent/water...

I'm working on a recipe for an American Brown, and this is what I've come up with. A couple of grains are some I already have, but I'm looking for a dark brown, a hint of american hop flavor, but malty with a medium body. Thoughts or suggestions? 8.5 lbs Maris Otter 0.5 lb. Car-Pils 0.5...

2 weeks ago, I started two one gallon batches of cider and they are still showing airlock activity. They are in 1 gallon carboys, and started as a gallon of unfiltered, pasteurized cider with no preservatives. I added 8 ounces of dextrose and then 4.5 grams (1/2 of a packet) of Brewers Best...

I've done a lot of reading on how to accomplish temperature control for my fermentation, cold crashing, etc. I built my own temp controller with an STC 1000, and have a spare fridge hooked to it and it's working just fine. I'm planning to use it to cold crash a beer this week before bottling...

I know you experienced Brewers chuckle at us noobs after Christmas, I hope I a few years I will as well. I thought I'd post some of my observations after doing a lot of reading different posts on here over the last several years, a little worrying, and getting through my first AG brew, after one...

Can someone tell me what I am seeing in this picture? As my wort cooled down to 70, it was like it was separating, and formed a cloud like accumulation of this lighter, fluffy looking stuff ( I know, great technical terms here). When I put my ice bag (sanitized) into the wort and stirred, the...

Ok, I just finished my mash, and realized if I am heating sparge water in my brew kettle, I can't drain my mash tun into that same kettle. Duh! Can I drain the mash tun (152 degrees) into the plastic primary bucket?

OK, so tomorrow I dive in to an AG batch. Today I checked my boil loss and figured my final batch size in a 5 gallon brew kettle will be about 2.7 gallons after starting with a 4 gallon boil. Even though it's a little smaller than I hoped, I'm going to use all the grain I have crushed since I...

This is a picture of my first brew in the secondary fermenter. I transferred it after two days consecutive FG readings of 1.012 which is right on target. I wasn't worried at first, since there was some starsan foam on top after sanitizing, so I thought this was just some left over foam, but it...

Well since my first brew is nestled away in the carboy for a couple of weeks, I thought I'd introduce myself after reading so many threads and posts to get me started. I brewed my first batch using a Brewer's Best kit my wife got me for Christmas. I had been looking at getting started in the...

Well, my first batch was going well until... It was an American Pale Ale kit with LME and the caramel 20 to steep. All went pretty well through the steeping and boil. I cooled it down to 70 degrees, poured it into my primary fermenter (6.5 gallon bucket), and then added some 70 degree water...