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Just gonna throw this out there, brew a batch or two before you jump in and commit to a keezer. Not that you can't and shouldn't get into the hobby but make sure its something you enjoy before committing a decent chunk of change on a keezer.

Bump on a dead thread for a hope of a recipe coming out Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I thought about a single hop batch, but I live in an apartment and don't really have the space/equipment to have that many batches. These were kind of a surprise and are vacuum packed so I'm a little torn if I should open them up or not before use Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I've come upon a first world home brewer problem and could use some help. I have a friend of a friend that runs an organic hop farm out here in Oregon and just received about 6ozs of experimental hops. I'm thinking its time to brew an IPA or IIPA. With that in mind I could use some help...

Thanks. I'm trying to take the RDWHAHB (ok actually its a ninkasi total domination). For obvious reasons I had better luck hitting the right temp with my sparge water, and since I'm doing a batch sparge I figured I'd give it a 20 min rest and see if I can't help increase some fermentability...

Took the plunge and am in the middle of my first mash, using a 10 gal igloo cooler for a mash tun. Based on the online calc I used heated strike water to 167 to hit a mash temp of 155. I put some water (didn't measure the volume) to pre heat my tun. When I finally had all of my strike water...

I just bottled a batch of extract I brewed on Memorial Day. I had enough left over for a couple glasses after filling all my bottles. Even flat it's good. Fantastic nose, bananas and other proper Belgium ester smells. Taste is fantastic, with a noticeable alcohol taste on the back end, but not...

It's to late to add sugar when you bottle because fermentation will be complete. By adding to much sugar once you bottle you run the risk of over carbbing and creating bottle bombs as well.

Forget the dry hop, you are going to have to age that for so long to mellow it out, you won't even notice it.

I would say skip the dry hop, with the length you'll need to secondary, you'll lose anything the dry hop brings to the table. Instead use those hops somewhere in the last 15 minutes

Mark me down for 5 gallons brewed this weekend. Went with the wyeast instead of the white labs, hoping for a slightly higher pitching rate, but of course I screwed up and didn't smack one of my two packs. Either way it's chugging along great now, gonna be tough waiting for this one to be ready

I'm not positive, but I'm relatively sure these are brand new classes and haven't started yet. So I'm not sure you'll be able to get feed back yet

So I was going to make a white IPA (think chain breaker from deschutes) but I accidentally grabbed wyeasts 3191. I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on trying to use a sour yeast on this. Should I just go and get a wit yeast which is what I meant to grab, or see what happens? If this isn't...

Russian river consecration. Has me inspired to brew a sour. I even got my non beer geek friends hooked

In the past I've dry hopped in the secondary with pellets, but I'm thinking about trying whole leaf hops instead on a beer that is just about ready. If I get whole leaf I'm concerned about getting them out of the narrow neck of the Carboy. Therefore I'm thinking I'll Toss them in the primary...

I'm a big racer 5 fan, great hop flavor, more on the dank side than citrus side if I remember correctly. But as everyone has said you can't go wrong with any of them

I'm standing in line, so I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I know the Amarillo were 10%+. For what it's worth the FO was two oz. one of each of them Finally I threw in the gypsum because we do have very soft water in portland and at some point someone told me it helped bring out...

Hey Guys (and Gals) I'm looking for a little feed back on an IPA recipe I'm putting together. I'm mostly wondering if its simply too many hops for the grain bill (and I'm born and raised in Oregon, so hops are my friend). 7# Light LME 1# Briess light DME .5# Cara-Pils .5# Crystal 10L Add 1...

Hate to be that guy, but bump

Ok so I took a stab at putting together my first recipe after looking at a few online that sounded interesting. Would love some feedback as I kind of just winged it. Its an partial boil extract w/ specialty grains. #5 DME #1.33 American 2-row 8 oz Crystal 40L 4 oz special B 4 oz Honey...