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NEIPA are great beers to brew. Heavy mouth fill with a fruit forward finish. After a few sips of a perfected NEIPA, who would want to drink anything else. However, some of us have a great looking IPA that looks as juicy as OJ only to have it clear up in a few weeks. While others have been...

I purchased some Omega 091 a few days ago and are going to be brewing with it tomorrow! I always harvest my yeast and I want to get a good amount from this brew to use as my regular yeast. For that reason, I'm starting out with a non hoppy beer. I'll reuse this yeast for a hoppy NEIPA but...

Saturday night I made a 5L starter for my blonde, which required Kolsch yeast. It was close to midnight when I pitched and the pack of Lactobacillious and Yeast looks very similar. Well after adding in the second pack of yeast to the starter, I realized that the first pack that I dumped into...

Anybody brewed a batch from a few days ago and drain from the fermenter to use that yeast as a starter for the next batch? I have two speidel 16 gallon fermenters and I just filled one of them up last night with a fresh brewed cream ale using the same yeast that I use in my blonde. I am going...

I'm trying to work on my NEIPA but I don't seem to get it exactly the way I want it to come out. The brew comes out tasting great and everybody loves it but I call it a Hazy IPA because is isn't super cloudy and the haze goes away after a few weeks. All of my beers get really clear towards the...

Hello. I am start to brew on a 2 bbl herms system and am not sure what to do about yeast. Hopefully somebody has brewed on this scale and wouldn't mind giving me some pointers. I've often been proud of my beer on a keggle system and give most of the credit due to my yeast practice. If I am...

I have a few plate chillers that came with a used herms system that I purchased. These should be fine with most homebrew systems. I have no clue how old they are but I did run water through it and they appear to be.fine internally. I also have a blichmann plate chiller that I only used a...

I have been able to simply add coffee, raspberries, and hops to the keg to make some really interesting beer in my 10g keggle system. However, it always seems that the favor isn't evenly dispersed and doesn't last but a few weeks. Also, it seems that adding the ingredients after the cold crash...

I have been saving my yeast for several generations now, 5+, and storing them in mason jars after I was finished. At first, I was washing the yeast with boiled water that has been cooled to below 80 degrees. However, recently I have just been saving the Trub in a mason jar and making a starter...

I brewed a blond a while back and it really didn't turn out too good IMO. I mostly brew pale ales so I used a pale ale malt as my base with some other caramelized malt as well. It turned out to be very bland with only Carmel as the flavor. A little too sweet for my taste. I was going to dump...

I've recently started doing 10g batches all grain and for yeast, I just buy 2 packs. This past order, I just bought one pack of yeast and was going to do a starter. Well the DME was left out and I was really wanting to brew tomorrow since I am going out of town in a couple of days and I wanted...

Hello. I've been homebrewing since about 2007 but I took 1 1/2 years off when I found out I was having a second set of twins. (yes, that's right) I've been all grain brewing for many years now. My current set up is very simple and basic. 4 gallon kettle for HLT 10 gallon mast tun cooler w/...

I was at Costco today and noticed this stand with 3 burners. It doesn't look like a bad deal but I am not 100% sure that it will hold the kettles. I can always build a wooden frame to hold it up if I need to. Does anybody own this? I wonder if it will work for 10g batches with some minor...

]I am looking for a brew stand that can handle 10 gallon batches and came across this one from Gander Mountain. Looks like a solid stand for about $200. I am sure I can figure out a way to get a third burner on there or just use a deep fryer burner. Has anybody used this stand as a brew...

I am looking for a brew stand that can handle 10 gallon batches and came across this one from Gander Mountain. Looks like a solid stand for about $200. I am sure I can figure out a way to get a third burner on there or just use a deep fryer burner. Has anybody used this stand as a brew stand...

I current have a Black Frigidaire Chest Freezer 7.2 cu that was converted to a Kegerator several years ago. However, I have had a couple of changes that I am thinking about doing to the freezer. Below is a picture of the Kegerator. It is nothing fancy. I am going to add a wood collar made...

I have created a recipe for a rye ale and was wondering how to calculate the pre boil SG target. I understand how to calculate it based on the post boil OG reading but how do you know how much boil off you will have? Can somebody help me estimate this? I am assuming that this is based off of...

Why do most brewers take a Pre-Boil SG Reading? I always take SG reading before pitching the yeast and another SG reading after fermentation. If you have to boil for 60 minutes, I am having a tough time understanding the reason for a Pre-Boil SG Reading. Sorry for the newb question.

I'm trying to save my yeast from a recent batch of a rye IPA. I have read about doing this on several other threads and it seems like a fairly simple process. I emptied the remaining slurry out of the carboy into a sanitized Erlenmeyer Flask and let it sit for 24 hours. However, I am...

I recently brewed a bells two hearted IPA. At the time I didn't have a mesh strainer to use so I couldn't strain the hops that was added to the kettle from the brew that is added to the carboy. So I just left all of the hops that was in the kettle in the carboy when fermenting. I wasn't sure...