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Hello everyone, Just a quick question regarding calculating my water profile and additions. Im currently using Beer Smith, but this question can be applied to any program. Under the water profile tool I have my cities water profile entered and I add whatever elements necessary for the profile...

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BREW DAY SCHEDULE 1. Add 1 oz. Palisade hops : (time) 2. Boil 25 minutes 3. Add 1 oz. Palisade hops : 4. Boil 20 minutes 5. Add 1 lb. DME and 1 oz. Simcoe hops : 6. Boil final 15 minutes 7. Add 1 oz. Ahtanum hops : That is the hop schedule if that helps. IBU's 53-61

I recently brewed a brewers best PSA IPA and wanted to try my hand at dry hopping. Never done it before. The kit used Palisade, Simcoe, and Ahtanum hops. Any suggestions on what hops to use would be great. I was thinking about throwing 2oz of Cascade in the primary for the last 5-7 days. The...

@adamdillabo- I took my boil and cooled it it ~ 75 degrees and poured it through a strainer into the primary. It took about 5 minutes to do so. But you make a great point that I didn't think about. The temperature of my wort was most likely ~70 deg when I took my reading. Something I didn't...

I added my wort to the fermenter and added 2.5 gal of water so it reached about 4 gal. I stopped adding water after I took the reading at 1.055 because I did not want to dilute the wort even more. (I am right in that if I added more water approaching 5 gallons the OG would drop even more?) I did...

This is my second home brew. I just did my boil and my OG reading was 1.055. The recommended OG was 1.061-1.065. Not only did my OG not reach the recommended value, my final volume of wort into my primary was only ~4 gallons ( from a 5 gallon kit). I believe my loss of wort was from the boil and...