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Currently brewing a Brut IPA and pitched my FermFast GlucoAmylase (2g per 5 gal) Enzyme along with Wyeast 1272 (American Ale II) at 68F in the carboy. Currently sitting at 64F in the primary (OG 1.050). I noticed the directions actually said to pitch the glucoamylase at 131-140F. Will the enzyme...

Hey guys! I am participating in a Homebrewing competition in May where the goal is to showcase a recipe to the tune of "something we haven't thought about before". My idea is to do a "Smoked Arnold Palmer" style ale where I will use smoked malt, tea, and lemon in the brew. I LOVE the...

I have a SS Brewbucket http://www.ssbrewtech.com/products/the-brewmaster-bucket with the thermowell. Right now I have removed the thermometer than comes with the brewbucket and stuck the STC1000 probe inside the thermowell, and insulated with duct tape. It seems to me that this might not...

Cold crashing a beer right now at 34-35F and have read that 24hrs should be good, but some have said they prefer a week or longer. Is there a noticeable difference or is it diminishing returns after 24hrs? Couldn't you just achieve the same effect by keeping COLD in the corny keg and just...

I am brewing this blonde ale I found in the recipe section of the site and want to make it with as few off-flavors as possible. I am mainly concerned about diacetyl, acetaldehyde, and oxidation. I am not so much worried about other off flavors as I was very liberal with my star san, a nice...

Brewing a blonde ale w/ nottingham yeast - Krausen took 24 hrs to form and dissipated in 2 days, so now I am trying to figure out how long to leave in the primary to clean up diacetyl, acetaldehyde, etc. Any thoughts? I am fermenting at 67F in a ferment chamber

I pitched a rehydrated packet of Danstar Nottingham dry yeast into my ~78F 1.044 OG wort about 20 hours ago and still have no signs of krausen or fermentation. I used an aquarium pump with a pumice stone for thirty minutes to oxygenate. I rehydrated the yeast according to the packet and pitched...

I just brewed an IPA on monday, pitched a 2l starter full of healthy yeast and the fermentation was crazy good, thick creamy krausen and crazy blowoff tube activity. Everything is temperature controlled well too. Looked today and krausen is all gone and little co2 is being produced. Has this...

I want to know the steps you guys take to must efficiently run your brew day. My HLT is a converted igloo cooler so I have to take some extra time to heat it up and then heat sparge water while sharing my one propane burner and I don't know how to cut down the extra time that takes. What...

Brewing an IPA, I ran out of propane at the 15 min remaining mark. I went ahead and pitched my hop additions at 15 min at 15 min and decided to throw my 5 min additions in at 10 min to maybe aid in better isometerization. The recipe calls for dry hopping but I have no idea. Anybody have...

I don't have a thermowell, but do you think it would be ok to simply feed my long STC 1000 temp probe down my blowoff tube and into the carboy? It seems like it would work well

I am trying to brew an IPA using beersmith but have a couple questions: 1. I was not planning on preheating my 10 gal igloo cooler mash tun, but beersmith says my mash in temperature should be 169F, is this too high?? 2. When batch sparging, beersmith says to use 2 steps of 1 gal and 4 gal...

I would like to vorlauf in my BIAB kettle to clarify a bit of the wort, how can I do this without getting the bag sucked into the ball valve?

I brewed a noble pilsner about 8 days ago and pitched a packet of dry saflager yeast. I believe I made a mistake when I rehydrated the yeast at room temperature water instead of warm water, I didn't see much/any foaming after the 30 minute mark, but pitched anyway. Action in airlock is very...

Hello all, My recipe for my first cider is as follows: 5 gal pasteurized, non preserved cider 3 3/4 cup light brown sugar WLP775 Cider yeast Pectic enzyme and some yeast energizer I put all that in a 5 gal carboy so there is very little headspace, but put a blowoff on. Plan to wait...

On brewday, after i cooled the wort, I racked into my carboy. I was surprised to find that I only had about 4 gallons out of the 5 I brewed with and that my noble pilsner wort was brown instead of gold. I brewed on a propane burner, is it possible too much heat caused a discoloration? Has...

I am currently brewing a pale ale in my primary that I plan to both dry hop and cold crash. It has been fermenting in the primary at 68F for 8 days now and I plan to let it sit there for another 6 or 7 days to finish fermentation and allow the yeast to clean and clarify. I plan on dry hopping...

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First time posting -- me and my college roomates decided to start brewing. We got the necessary equipment off Craigslist and recipe/ingredients from local Austin, TX homebrew shop. We are brewing an American IPA - we made sure everything was sanitized, and let our beer ferment in 6.5gal...