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I have a friend who works at a LHBS. Well they have random bags of grain that people ordered and then cancelled the order, so he brought me one for free to brew up. It currently is a bag of grain already milled and mixed together so the only thing grain bill wise would be to add grain. I need to...

OK ladies and gents, I need some advice from the German natives on the site. I'm currently visiting family and want to visit a good bar with different beer selections. I'm looking for something other than hefeweizens and dunkelweizens (I've been here for 5 days already and have drank a lot of...

My first PM was a success, Shooting for a vanilla porter, its also my first attempt at creating my own recipe through brewersfriend.com. Here is the recipe 3lb light LME 5lb 2 row 1lb chocolate malt .5lb crystal 60L 2 oz roasted barley 1 oz norther brewer (9.9%) 1 wyeast american...

ok so this is the first recipe that i ever created/tweaked myself, and will be my first partial mash attempt after roughly 8-10 extract brews. Ive read alot about the partial mash process. What im looking for is some advice from the pro's on this site as to how this recipe will turn out taste...

So i just brewed up a batch of summer shandy yesterday for the fiance and my mom. after I topped it off and took my OG reading i realized that it topped it off with too much spring water and my reading was 1.040 at 70* which means a reading of 1.041 (per brewers friend app). the goal was a...

ok so this is my 3 or 4th batch. It was an american light that i fermented alittle high since i was unable to control my temps at that particular time. My question is im tasting a weird flavor, and ill start from the beginning to help clarify some of the details. first my future father in...

So 2nd brew and me trying to do too many things at once, I let the muslin bag sit on the bottom of the kettle for too long and it got stuck, then it broke the bag. I heard that boiling grains is bad. So do I need to try and filter the grains out prior to boil, or can I boil the grains and...

ok so Ive officially completed the first brew ever. Irish red ale. The hydrometer reading I got was 1.040 @ 70 degrees. the paper scale states that if its not taken at 60degrees then you need to make adjustments to the reading. But when I looked at the Brix for 60 degrees and the adjustment...

Hi everyone, My name is Bryan, I live in michigan. Just starting to get into brewing, waiting to borrow a kit from a friend who doesnt use his. If I enjoy it im going to buy my own kit. Ive been reading as much as I can about the subject, everything from extract brewing to partial mashes and...