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Back to brewing after another baby, feels good to brew again. Set up new kegerator over labor day, kegged homebrew first time, its good to be back. Question I have is talking with wife, all my beers are sweet, undesirable. I have been brewing for a few years and all have that characteristic...

I made a Heady Topper clone about 5 weeks ago, I've made it before and is my favorite IPA I have ever made. It was AG, OG 1.084, FG 1.017. I believe I bottled 52 beers with 3.9 oz. priming sugar. Just like always I give them 2 full weeks and try 1, they are always fully carbonated. They...

Pitched a belgian wyeast 3522 in 1.092 wort, have never used this yeast before. This was Sunday. I usually use 1056 because my basement is a steady 66 degrees. The temperature range for 3522 is 66 to 76, so I put my carboy heat wrap on and it went up to 78+, took it off now back to 66. My...

I thought of many ways to ask this question, here is the simplest way I can think to ask. If I want to replicate a beer, lets say it has an ABV of 8.4%, and I repeatably get a FG of 1.020 (wyeast 1056), I look at a ABV calculator and it tells me I need a OG of 1.084. This is making me think my...

Disclaimer: In no way am I being critical of brewing software (I have promash & beersmith) but never really use them. Wondering what people most use brewing software for. I personally use it to scale recipes to my desired batch size, but thats about it. I could do that with pencil & paper...

Hello Yesterday I brewed 12 gallons Pliny the Elder close. It was my first 10+ gallon batch so it was busy. So busy, I forgot to add the 1.5 lbs dextrose. I pitched the yeast Saturday 5pm. It is in active fermentation right now: blowoff tubes are full. Is it possible at this point to boil...

There are double IPA recipes out there, Heady Topper, Pliny, that call for a primary dry hop and secondary dry hop. I want to do a 10 gallon batch but don't have enough carboys to hop in secondary. Therefore I would dry hop all at once last week or so before bottling. What would the...

I am curious as to what some folks do to filter their wort before the plate chiller. I bought paint strainer bags but unsure how to apply them. What do you do? Cheers

Bought the Blichmann Therminator. Brewing tomorrow, today I soaked in in PBW for 30 minutes, then starsan for a bit, drained, drank a few brews, then went to flush with hot water with this "plate chiller back flush" hose I bought at LHBS and now scratching my head. Both ends are female 3/4"...

Plan A (preferred) I have upgraded my brewing equipment and need to figure out how to get my runnings into my new boil pot. Previously I would collect 7 1/2 gallons in my 8 gallon pot, and carry that to the burner. I cannot carry 12 gallons in my new 15 gallon keggle. Can I: Mash indoors...

Saturday was brew day - everything went as planned, this time pitched a rehydrated Nottingham yeast, haven't used this before. I was slightly nervous as the biggest carboy I had available was a 6 gallon better bottle, and I filled that sucker up like 5 1/2 gallons, so not a lot of head space...

I want to dry hop in primary a couple days after pitching as to not lose all aromas through the airlock. My question is: I will be fermenting in a 6 gallon better bottle carboy, should I just toss the pellets in loose? That is what I am planning because I don't want to get a muslin bag stuck...

After my 1 hour mash rest at 154, I heated 2 1/4 gallons to sparge. Well I got complacent and unintentionally brought that water to a boil and sparged with it. It brought the grist temp up to 168 and I collected my runnings. I still had 2 1/4 more gallons to collect so I sparged with 150 degree...

I have noticed that if I drink a beer I had bottled 2 weeks after bottling day, it is usually somewhat disappointing. My scotch ale didn't have that malty profile for at least 4 weeks, and the hop profile for my IPAs don't really come through until 3 weeks to the day after bottling. I am...

My efficiencies are consistently lousy, ranging 67% to 71%. Rather than adjust my grain bill to suit, it's time to address the problem. Today's brew resulted in the following: 2.66 lbs Munich malt 9.05 lbs 2 row 1.06 lbs caramunich malt 1.33 pilsener Collected slightly more than 5 gal...

I was making my starter wort, and saw in the boil little black flecks of whatever from the bottom of my POS pot. I cooled it to temp., and poured through a strainer into the flask, then put on stir plate. I can still see little black flecks bombing around in there. I haven't pitched my yeast...

Hi Guys I am an AG brewer, use a cooler for a mash tun and an 8 gallon boil kettle which gives be a 71% efficiency as I batch sparge, and yields 60 beers. That said - that makes for a long brew day - 5 hours 45 minutes. Was thinking about brewing smaller batches more often to experiment...

Hello In preparation for brewing a Scottish ale, I bought Wyeast 1728 to make a starter. I ended up making a 200ml starter that according to the Brewers Friend calculator had a potential of 380 billion cells when I really only needed 200 billion. I didn't think this could be a problem. But...

Hello I mistakenly bought a Wyeast 1728 smack pack with a born on date of 1/15/14, viability 10 billion cells, so I bought another dated 4/2/15 viability 67 billion cells. My scotch ale recipe wort will be 1.056, so I made a 2000 ml 1.040 starter and pitched the (2) yeast packs. It is...

Hello After brewing mostly IPAs I think I have had my hop fill and am ready for something new. My thoughts are all grain, something lower gravity - session type wheat beer for the summer. Also thinking about adding strawberries or raspberries after 1 week in fermentation (Gordon Strong)...