Search results

We did a big imperial stout, and made enough that we have spare. One of the fermenters somehow came out a little tart/astringent, but not in a way that particularly makes me think it's got a bug. We drink a lot of sours, and I think this was just a poor mash and not the best fermentation...

So you save the dregs of a few of your favorite chunky beers, or a whole bunch of your favorite not-so-chunky beers. You make a 1 L starter and spin for 48 hours. And you have clear yeast growth. How do you know how much you have made? Don't you sort of need a ballpark to know how many...

I'd like to bank a small amount of my starter yeast to use in a month or so. How much should I save? I have tiny little jars, similar to the white labs vials... Can I go small like that, and just step up a couple of times the week I want to brew with it? It seems easy... Tell me if I'm...

I know I've asked the "do you secondary" question before, but I keep on bumping into reasons why I could imagine one might... and I'll be brewing one of them on Friday. I'm doing a relatively high gravity barleywine. I have expectations that this beer will want to sit for 6-9 months before...

I did a pale that used a ton of hops, and then a ton of dry hopping. It wasn't a high gravity brew, and is somewhere between 5-6% ABV. Because the alcohol content isn't massive, I was thinking of washing the yeast for next time, but since there's an abnormally high quantity of hop matter...

I have a lot of beer cellared, and head to FFF regularly. I believe in trading $4$ or rare4rare... If you live in an area that gets Heady Topper and want to trade a 4 pack or two, let me know what sorts of things you're interested in. I've done a bunch of trading via BeerAdvocate etc...

I got one of these for way too little money, and wanted to use it for eventual BIAB experiments, but also as a mash tun for high gravity batches. I got my last mash tun with a manifold off a friend who got out of brewing due to time issues... So I never had to address this specifically...

Better to try SMaSH or to use a common base malt and then experiment with one additional grain? I want to make my own recipes, but the problem is that I know what I like in the finished product, but I don't know what to tweak to get more of "what makes it better" because it's such a...

I intend to do my first 10 gallon batch next, on the suggestion of a few friends and my LHBS. You know, the logic of "it's the same amount of work for 5 or 10 gallons, so you might as well make more" etc. The question is, do I need a bigger mash tun in order to do a 10 gal batch? I know it...

I intend to brew my first IPA this weekend. I am looking for mega bitter, good hoppy aroma, etc. I want to try to make the beer reasonably clear, and I am hoping for around 8%. Perfect would be ~8% and ~100 IBU. So I am punching in ingredients into iBrewmaster, at LHBS owner's suggestions...

I have a 6 gallon and a 3 gallon carboy. I want to brew an IPA, and want to secondary it, because I want to go by the book for the first batch. I just did an Irish Stout, which I will bottle tonight, and did it all on just the primary, based on the trends I've read from threads here and...

Will you recommend the best extract recipe (kit or otherwise... Brew and Grow is 5 minutes away) for a big coat your glass RIS? I'm looking for things you've made and found worthwhile. I won't be able to go grain until spring at the earliest, but I'd like to try making something big...

It appears that my first home brew (Midwest extract Porter kit) is a success. A few minor problems but nothing that should have contaminated the beer, and it's bubbling away happily. Biggest problem is that I left my hydrometer at my folk's place (we were going to brew there on Christmas but...