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When dry hopping an extract recipe, do you hold back some of the hops that the recipe calls for and use them for dry hop, add additional, or only do it if the recipe calls for it?

I would have taken pictures if it would have made more of a mess. So I guess I'm lucky it didn't. The airlock did have a lot of beer caked in there but I would have thought it would have ejected it w/ the stopper. Who knows...

Is the article saying to boil everything less the LME for the 60 minute schedule and then add the LME at flame out, hold for 10 min, then cool? Or add the LME at say 50 min? I'm typically boiling my chiller at 50 min which is going to make adding LME a little tricky. Any thoughts.

I brewed Ryan's Facepuncher yesterday. I'll let you know in a few weeks. I can't wait to drink this beer.

I brewed the NB Ryan's Face Puncher IPA yesterday. The yeast was a Wyeast pack that I made a starter with on Saturday. For that I used 1 cup DME and 2 pts of water. The OG of the kit came in right around 1.072 that the recipe calls for. When I came home from work today I found the lid had...

How long did you boil the top off water? You should only need to boil that for a couple of minutes, so loss on that should be negligable.

Water weighs a bit over 8 lbs/gallon.

I start w/ 5.5 gallons and come in just under 5.0 normally.

Are there any less than obvious tips for getting as much of the malt out as possible? I like the NB kits better than Williams due to the jug, but I find it impossible to get "enough" of the malt out. Today I used max temp tap water to sanitize my fermenter and put the jug in there to warm it...

That's on the agenda. These are the first two batches I made in a couple of years. We've moved houses since my last run at it and the new house had the bar set up already with the single tap. Since the fridge fits 2 kegs, I might as well have two taps...eh?

I only have one tap, but brewed two batches on consecutive days. I kegged and tapped the first keg about 2 weeks ago. I just kegged the 2nd one today and put it in the fridge until I'm ready to tap it. I do not add priming sugar. I force carbonate. So what should I do with the 2nd keg? Do...

Is there a way to identify which specific hops are in a given Williams kit? I made two batches of American IPA this week. I'm interested in eventually growing my own hops, so it would be nice to know what I'm actually using to compare to later.