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I live in the Skagit Valley, once the hops capital of WA, before we found out seed crops paid more. I just grow for my own use, and have a bumper crop of Fuggles this year. Want some? Come harvest, and we'll split the pickings. You'll need to bring a container to take your portion home, and a...

I brewed a wit last week. Wanted to do another batch, and didn't have another yeast pack, so I boiled the kettle, cooled it, sent batch 1 to secondary, and threw the 2nd batch in the primary with the trub from the 1st. 90 min later it is running over the 6 gal better bottle, and the air lock...

I started a lager last week. I have had several lagers end primary in a week. This one's still bubbling away, and was 1.030 when I checked it last. I changed one thing- I'm colder in primary than I've done in the past- 50F. What do ya think? 2 weeks? The sample I drew for gravity was really...

I started my first (of the season) batch of lager this morning. I had propagated up 1.6L of 2206 Bavarian for this brew. I had to pitch before I left for work. The wort was 85F, warmer than I would have liked, but OK I thought.... Came home to a blow-off! It was cooking like an ale, and had 8+F...

So, I thought I'd use a nicer tool for my gravity measurement. Got a refractometer. It isn't very accurate at all. It reads 10 Brix (1.040) on beer that's 1.020 by my float. I know the float's pretty close. Anyone else use or try a refractometer? My hope was that I could monitor grav more...

I had a whoopsie today. Making my ESB recipe, I was to add 1/2 lb of dark DME. I only had dark LME, so poured some in. You know how "pouring" LME is... so, my wort is pretty dark. I s'pose it will have a slight flavor change, but I doubt it's much. I'm curious if there is any beer profile that...

I'm shooting for a 100+ IBU IIPA, single hopped with simcoes. I have the bittering (I think, by calculation) but some other things I question. It was a 1095 OG. I've been trying to find the limits of pitching, so started a double batch of Munton's dry in 2L of wort. It ran in the stir plate 24...

My Belgian Wit came out of secondary today. Been looking forward to it. I stuck my head in the bucket, cause it always smells so good to catch a fresh batch of beer. It about knocked me down!:eek: The smell was so strong I didn't know what it was at first. The Wyeast 3944 I used says it has...

I just made my first batch of a Belgian Wit. I used Wyeast 3944, termed a "true" top cropping yeast. I see why. Man, that stuff really puts up the krauzen! I have a few questions- first, I have always figured the end of primary fermentation by the yeast cake dropping to the bottom of the...