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I tapped my keg of barleywine at room temp and I thought it tasted delicious and sweet at room temp. Then I cooled the beer down to like 40F and gave it a taste and its very different. It's not sweet when it's cold and it seems like the maltiness is very muted. Is this normal?

I just installed the HBT app on my android phone and I can't get it to launch without it crashing every single time. Anyone know what I can do to get it running?

Can I just put it in the boil? Also, how is this going to effect mash conversation?

I just brewed this and it was the best beer I ever brewed and everyone I shared this with said it was one of the best beers (commercial) they ever had! 13 lbs 12.46 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 12.32 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 12.32 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0...

... and all I did was make use of a wort chiller. I opened the lid to measure FG and to start dry hopping but I took a taste of the beer. Man! I can finally taste a lot of the citra flavors! I now want to rebrew some of my older IPA recipes and see how much better they are after wort...

Friend brewed, put wort in plastic fermentor, and didn't get around to pitching the yeast until five days later. Opens the lid and sees lots of bubbles on the surface. Infection? Pitch yeast anyway and see what happens?

I will be doing my first brew (DIPA) with a chiller and I am wondering if it will change the flavor of my product as compared to not chilling. For example, if I don't chill the wort down fast enough, all the late hop additions (5, 10mins) probably turn into bittering hops. However, if I chill...

:D I want to use a water pump to cycle icecold water through it. Any recommendations on what pump to get?

All reviews of that beer seem to suggest that it is not very better and I suspect it is so because of all the late addition hops are masking it. I would like to keep the citrus flavor profile of this beer but make it distinctively bitter. What should I use for bittering hops and how much...

Anyone have a recipe for a proven full-bodied, citrusy, sweet, bitter IPA? Did I just describe a West Coast style IPA? Anyone have a proven recipe for Space Dust?

Can anyone recommend a proven recipe? I would like it to be slightly sweet. I've had commercial beers like Swamp Head's Big Nose, for example, that has so much flavor along with the bitterness that makes it so yummy. I'd like to make something like it. I guess what I'm describing is a...

I have made many all grain IPAs with the attempt to make them full-bodied with lots of flavor and bitterness. For example I recently had Swamp Head's Stump Knocker and Big Nose IPAs and I love them. And I want to make something similar. They are bitter but they also have a lot of hop flavor...

How much of a flavor difference is there of beer that has late addition hops when using a worth chiller. I currently don't chill and wondering if there would be a difference in flavor (let's say for an IPA) for a beer that has late addition hops if I started chilling?

I just finished fermenting a Belgian Wit and the un-carbonated beer sample had a slight tartness to it. Is this expected? Hopefully it's not too pronounced in the final product... I'm hoping for something more sweet and citrusy.

I don't chill the wort after the boil which means that the late addition hops don't become late addition hops anymore. How can I modify the hop schedule to account for this? Side questions: 1) Anyone dump the hops from the kettle to the fermenter? Would having the hops in the fermenter have...

How close +/-, in points, to the OG would you say is close enough? Let's say the calculated OG is 1.060, what's an acceptable measured range would you say is close enough?

I did this for a few of batches using a corona mill... until I finally took the mill with me to Home Depot and found a bolt that fits into where the hand crank fits into. I just did a test run using a drill and I am loving all-grain brewing again! :D Please, for the love of the Homebrew Gods...

How can I improve this? What do you guys usually get?

Any recommendations?? My scale only does 1g and I am looking for something more precise.

I use an igloo cooler. I measured the temp after mixing the grains and I got 154F, my target temp. However, 45 mins later I decided to take a temp reading and it was at 148F. I have never seen this before. What did I do wrong?