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Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on aging a beer in one of those bourbon finishing barrels (picture the barrels that have spouts coming out of the head). A local bourbon bar sells them when they are empty and I'm trying to figure out if there's a reason why I couldn't use them to age a...

Looking to see if anyone has any advice. My mash tun is a 10gal Rubbermaid round cooler with a basic perforated false bottom from NB. Over the years I've struggled with getting more grain under my false bottom than I'd like--there is a decent pile underneath when I disassemble during cleanup...

I just upgraded from a Banjo burner to a Blichmann. I'm curious--I did some searching, but couldn't find any discussions on what people use for a regulator setting. It looks like you get three full turns, so I'm wondering what others typically set it at to get a decent rolling boil (but not too...

So I wasn't able to find a specific answer to this question as I searched the Internet so I'm hoping some experienced growers can help me out. I harvested the majority of my cones yesterday and there definitely are some cones with signs of downy mildew. Any reason why I shouldn't use these cones...

I've noticed that my 2nd year Centennial hop leaves have been slowly yellowing from the ground up for the last 3-4 weeks or so. The pictures below don't show it the best, but I've been cutting off the leaves when they get a very light or pale yellow. I believe my watering is fine, so is this...

Let me start out by saying in all my AG batches, I've never had one stall. I pitched a 2L starter of Wyeast 2565 (Kolsch) in 5gal of 1.066 wort on Sunday. Fermentation took off quickly as usual (60deg), and I had some blowoff. I normally don't take early gravity readings, but I took one last...

Im brewing a barleywine this weekend--by far, my biggest beer. I'm looking at 5.25 gallons with a target OG of 1.108. For those that have made bigger beers, what have your results been using Mr. Malty. It's telling me I need 379 billion cells. I'm making two separate 2L starters, which...

Wondering if anyone attempted the Wheelchair Barleywine Clone recipe in this month's issue of BYO? I've debated doing a barleywine for awhile, and for some reason this one seemed interesting. I've never had the original, so that's why I'm curious if anyone brewed it or is thinking about...

I've read about people saying that cold-crashing a dry-hopped beer can cause a loss in hop aroma due to the hop particles attaching to the stuff that settles out during the cold crash. Is the same true for a beer that's not dry hopped; say a pale ale? I've got a pale ale fermenting right now...

Wondering if anyone has ever brewed any of the recipes that show up the Great Lakes Brewing News that you can pick up for free at beer stores and your LHBS? I was looking at the Amber Ale recipe in the October/November issue: Batch Size = 5 gal OG = 1.060 FG = 1.017 IBU's = 32 9# pale...

I've made starters plenty of times, but am currently working on "stepping up" my first starter. After looking at the calculations a couple different ways, I decided on starting with a 1L starter, decanting, and then stepping it up with another 1L starter. However, now that I've got it going, I...

This may be a simple question, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet... I'm using Beersmith to adjust a recipe for brewhouse efficiency. In this case, I'm assuming that I'll get a better efficiency than the recipe was written for. When I adjust it using Beersmith, all the grain amounts...

I have struggled trying to calculate the amount of boiling water for a mash out. For those that use a round 10 gallon Igloo cooler as a mash tun, any suggestions on how many quarts of boiling water to add to raise the mash from 153 to 168 degrees, assuming 11# of grain and 13.75qts of water in...

For those that do a mash out, I'm wondering how much boiling water you add during mash out? On my first all-grain batch, I tried the equation from Palmer's book... amount of water (in qts) = (desired temp-mash temp)(.2*lbs of grain+qts of mash in water)/(water temp-desired temp) For my...