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Hey guys, So I decided to crush my own grain. After going through the very informative and hilarious "My Ugly Junk" thread, I bought a Corona mill. So before I go ahead and rattle off 10 lbs of grain, I did a test run with a lb of 2-row. Can you guys take a look at my crush and let me...

Hey guys, Just helping out a friend with a brew and he was looking at making this 5 gal PM recipe. Thinking something Abbot Ale'ish?: 3lbs MO 3lbs Light DME. 0.5 lb Amber Malt. 0.5 lb Crystal 60 EKG hops (not sure of quantities or schedule) Safale S-04 Does anyone have any advice...

Hey guys, Just helping out a friend with a brew and he was looking at making this 5 gal PM recipe. Thinking something Abbot Ale'ish?: 3lbs MO 3lbs Light DME. 0.5 lb Amber Malt. 0.5 lb Crystal 60 EKG hops (not sure of quantities or schedule) Safale S-04 Does anyone have any advice...

Hey guys, Just a quick question. I'm brewing a winter warmer this weekend and am planning to add cinnamon sticks ~5-flameout. My question is: Can I put the sticks in the primary or do I have to remove them? And if they can be left in, can they stay in there until bottling? I've searched...

Hi folks, I just recently made a West Coast IPA DME kit where I hit my OG dead-on (1.064), but my FG was lower than expected by 8 points (1.007) based off the kit's estimate (1.015). I fermented pretty much the whole time between 62-64. Although I'm not too worried because the sample...

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Hey guys, I brewed a 3.5 gal sweet stout kit that appears to came in way over the OG than the kit suggests. It was listed as 1.056 for OG (1.014 FG), but after the boil, I ended up with it at 1.074! Is this normal? I have 3.5 in the fermenter per the instructions so I don't think it's a...

Hey guys, I'm looking to experiment with my next Hefeweizen batch in an attempt to make a banana bomb. I'm thinking about stressing the yeast by underpitching, little/no aeration and higher temps (74-76 ish?). My only concern is with doing this, is turning this banana bomb into an Orville...

Hey guys, I'm going to be bottling a hefeweizen this weekend. I have an assortment of 500ml bottles to use for this. Now most of them are pretty thick but a have a bunch of Lezajsk bottles that I am wondering if it would be able to withstand the 3.5 volumes of CO2 I'm planning to use...

So this is my first 2.5 Gal all grain batch and I think after all my careful procedures to ensure it turned out great, I might have screwed it up at the finish line. This was my first time using an autosiphon and I had everything batch primed and ready to send down to those beautiful amber...

Hey folks, I’m going to be doing a 3.5 Gal. DME Hefeweizen kit I bought from Ontario Beer Kegs this weekend. Now, I’m pretty sure they know their stuff when it comes to instructions/brewing, but I’d like to run part of it past the forum members just to be sure before I start. I’ve...

So I made an American Orange Wheat ale and decided to do a gravity reading at day 10 (today) when I saw what's in the below photos. My gravity reading was 1.002 and the beer tastes pretty good (no discernable off-flavor). Since this is still a couple of days away from 2 weeks in the fermenter...

I bought some hallertau hops (1oz) for a 2.5 gal brew this weekend. The AA% on these hops are 7%. Now the hop schedule on the brew is: 60 min (3.9%) 30 min (3.9%) I'm still pretty new to this, so with the hops I have, does that mean mine would look like this right now without adjustments...

Hey there! Been lurking on this forum for about a month before I signed up and I gotta say, the information you guys bring to the table is invaluable, especially Revvy. Any question (or worry!) I had, the answer was found very easy on here. I just started trying my hand at brewing with one of...