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Hello All- I recently acquired a Control Panel in a trade and am thinking about building a HERMS system for my shop. I currently run all propane single tier with 2 march 809's, but would like to be able to set up shop permanently. My wife says that this will require me moving to electric and...

If anyone has any ideas for AG brews, I am looking to do my first one. I have built a semi automated 20 gallon rig so temps would be greatly appreciated as well.

Here's what I've got. I am planning on trying to make a nut brown ale. I am fairly happy with the base that I have been using the last couple brews but want to mix it up a little. I've malted ten pounds of quinoa at home and will use 5 along with some rice syrup and sorghum. I'm going to mash...

Last week I brewed a 5gallon batch of my pale ale recipe using Mosaic hops. This is the first time I have used them, and I can report that they are amazing! Probably my favorite hop, as they have a profile I have not come across before. I tasted a gravity reading this morning and it smells like...

Hello all- I have purchased about ten pounds of quinoa that I am planning on trying to malt for brewing in some batches. My question is how I go about estimating my OG for the purpose of building a recipe. Can anyone point me In a direction or have a number that I can plug into hopvilles...

I am currently brewing a brown ale using homemade crystal oat malt, sorghum, BRS, sorghum molasses, flaked oats. Hops are Fuggles and EKG. Can't wait to see how the oats behave. Might get a bit slippery

Does anyone have a way of guessing what an og might be before boiling? I've got 90 oz of sorghum syrup from a nearby Amish community. I know it's pure sorghum but looks slightly thinner than briess. I'm trying to guesstimate what might equal a lb of briess. Thanks

Has anyone ever used this? Hello all- I am wondering if anyone has used sodium alginate to aid in head retention? Theoretically, it should work similar to the gums, but I am trying to find out if it will thicken or emulsify the wort. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

In summary. Meh. I had never tried this an happened upon a bottle in a liquor store. I had tried their other varieties several years ago before I started brewin and thought that they were pretty good. This was the first commercial brew I have had in quite a while. To the nose it was very similar...

Does anyone think it would be possible to set up some sort of exchange for home brewed GF products? I live in TN and we have very strange liquor laws. I'm not sure that it would even apply, but I'm always curious what you guys are coming up with and how different they are. Some of us may even...

I picked some of this up today and was curious if anyone has used it yet. I am planning on using it this weekend on a variation of the grapefruit IPA that has been so highly recommended. Also, the guy at my lhbs says that this yeast generates a lot of heat. I don't have a controlled fermenting...

I am fairly new to brewing (6 batches) and have something happening in my current fermenter that I have not dealt with. I have done almost are dark ales and am currently fermenting an amber ale using us05. My gravity has dropped from 1.056 to 1.020 over the past week, but it is still very cloudy...

Hello all I am fairly new to home brewing and am interested in growing some of my own hops next year. I have access to land as well as a greenhouse. With the humid climate here, which approach would you recommend? Thanks!

I have about three pounds of soybean honey I got from a farmer in the area and am trying to decide what to do with it. I found a listing of honeys and their characters on the bjcp mead site and it looks to be similar to buckwheat honey but more floral so maybe a Belgian? Anyone have experience...

I am attempting to create a clone of a Fat Tire Amber using GF ingredients. This is the recipe I have come up with. Let me know what you guys think. 3.3# Sorghum syrup (late addition) 2# Roasted Buckwheat 1.5# Roasted Steel Cut Oats 2# Brown Rice Syrup 2# Buckwheat Honey 1# Maltodextrin...

http://hopville.com/recipe/1664037 I have some leftover hops and BRS, so I think I will try my hand at a stout. Any suggestions Igliashon or others? Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

This is a recipe I have come up with, but I am looking for input to make it turn out as well as possible. As it stands now: 4 lbs BRS 2 lbs toasted rolled oats covered in 1 lb maple syrup (steeped then added to mash) 1 lb d-180 candi 1 lb corn sugar (enough for body?) 6 oz molasses .5...

There seem to be a lot of experts here about the different ingredients used in brewing GF and these ingredients all serve different purposes. I am trying to produce a Venn Diagram of sorts pertaining specifically to GF ingredients but don't have the working knowledge base to complete everything...

Hello all- I am getting ready to brew my very first batch of homebrew and have a few questions? I have celiac but am tired of drinking bad beer so I am going to make my own. I like darker beers like ales, porters, and stouts. Are these possible to make using gf ingredients? Would you recommend...