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So I entered 3 beers in a local competition this weekend, one being a founders breakfast stout clone recipe. One thing the judges and myself noticed in the beer was a green pepper, as they described, off flavor. I got the same thing with this beer after about a week in the keg. I have done some...

Hey guys, just wondering if there is someone who is more artistic than I and can help make my homebrew club a sweet logo. I had a guy working on one but he stopped answering me after sending me his first draft. If anyone can help please let me know. I would like to present the logo at our next...

Hey guys, I wanted to do a few videos of my system from last brew day to help some people out with the idea. I know when I built my system there was very little information on a gas powered HERMS with the Tower of Power. I built my single tier 3 keg system and added 2 burners and the tower of...

Anyone looking to join a homebrew club we have just started our own in delaware county. We are the Delco wooder works. We will be meeting later this month. If you are interested in joining send me a message.

Hello all, I apologize if this does not belong here, I will move it if so. I am from PA and my Fiance surprised me today to an early birthday present by telling me we are taking a road trip to Michigan from Philly for a brewery road trip in February. So I think were pretty much staying in...

I am planning on brewing a Belgian dark strong ale tomorrow and am trying to figure out my bottling methods for down the road. I currently keg most of my beers for the ease of serving and the clarity. Obviously a Belgian strong is a little much to be on a keg as it probably won't be drank to...

Hello all, so I have brewed a beer for a competition that is Saturday and it was a dry hopped ipa in which I left it in primary for 3 weeks then cold crashed and then dry hopped in a keg for 8 days so far at 60 degrees and 30 psi. At some point my co2 tank ran out of co2 and I just refilled it...

I just started growing a centennial and a cascade this year in 2 half whiskey barrels. In the beginning I was over watering my hops and got infested with fungus gnats all over the soil so I stopped watering for about a week to let the soil dry out. I was feeding them an organic fertilizer every...

I am entering in a competition my local homebrew store does with a local pub. This is my first competition and I feel as though I can make a decent beer for it. The rules of the competition are that we have to use only nugget hops and must use at least 2 malts. With that said here is the recipe...

This is my first year trying to plant rhizomes and I live in suburban Philadelphia. About 3 weeks ago we had a warm spell of a couple days in the mid to high 50s and I got to excited to plant my new rhizomes and I planted them right away in my 22.5 inch diameter whiskey barrels. I planted a...

I am planning on brewing a barleywine sunday and am making a starter for it now. I am using 1 vial of WLP007 dry english ale yeast and its production date was nov 30. I am assuming my OG at 1.1 off of beer smith which will in reality be more like 1.08. When I use mr Malty it says with my stir...

Ok I have a stout in my keg now going on a week and I just poured a test glass to see carbonation and I am getting little to no head when pouring. I have had the keg on 8psi for a week at 44 degrees and recently upped it to 10psi on Sunday . The beer doesn't taste flat but I still have no head...

Ok I want to make my first barleywine after my stout is done around the holidays and have it age for a few months on oak cubes possibly soaked in a bourbon I haven't decided on that just yet. Heres what I have so far: 15lbs of 2 row pale malt 3 lbs of munich malt 1lb of 60L crystal .5 lb...

Hello everyone, I am currently fermenting a chocolate cherry stout. I was a little low on my original gravity but none the less I am curious of how to calculate the final alchohol% when it is done when I added cherry concentrate to my secondary. When I racked into my secondary my gravity was at...

I have a dual tap kegerrator that I recently converted over to a keggerator for my homebrew kegs. I have had 2 kegs on it. My first keg was by itself which was on there for about 2-3 weeks by itself where the Co2 ran out once and i refilled it 2 days later and the beer was fine. I then hooked up...

I currently use a chest freezer and a small space heater for my fermentation Chamber that I control with the stc1000. Every time I have a carboy in there the 3 piece airlock emptys below the floating piece. It is not cracked and I use a thermowell stopper and it does the same with a regular...

Ok so I brewed an oktoberfest back in august with an OG of 1.050 and FG of 1.008. I was shooting for 1.015. I just kegged it and it tasted a little light not very malty as it should be. This is the second all grain brew I have gotten low gravities on. The grain bill was 5lbs 2row pilsner...

Ok so I brewed my second attempt of a pumpkin ale last night after the first attempt being very low in efficiency. The recipe were pretty much the same except the second batch had brown sugar added with 15 minutes left in the boil. The first attempt was supposed to have an original gravity of...

I just brewed my first pumpkin all grain beer and the gravity did not come anywhere close to what it was estimated at on beersmith. My mash tun is a 10 gallon cooler with a false bottom. I use beer smith to get my estimates and water amounts and follow them pretty closely. My recipe is: 2...

Sorry I tried this thread in another forum and it didn't get viewed. I plan on brewing my first all grain pumpkin batch this sunday. I just picked up my ingredients today. 8# pale malt 4# vienna malt 2# munch malt 1.2# 60L crystal .8# caramunch 1# rice hulls ? Pumpkin meat WLP013 london...