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Brewed a maibock five weeks ago, pitched with some WLP820 I had harvested from my Oktoberfest batch last fall. I made a starter of course, but because it was harvested I really can't say exactly how much I had, but I do believe it was a slight underpitch. Fermentation at 55F started up...

I have a dubbel mashing as we speak. I'm still getting used to all-grain, and seem to flub something each time...this time I must have measured by water temp poorly, because the mash temp came in a little over 160 (target was 152). I added some ice a little at a time to get it down to 153-ish...

Had an Oktoberfest lagering in my el cheapo freezer, I had stepped it down a little each day until 40, and then I stopped looking in on it for a week. When I did check yesterday, 8 days later, it was at 60 degrees...the stupid cheap freezer broke down somewhere during that week! I assume early...

I've had my first AG (an Oktoberfest) mashing for about 25 minutes now. I went to do an iodine test, but I'm not seeing any purple. I noticed this when I did my one and only partial mash too, no purple even though it's too soon for full conversion (I think, anyway). So here's my stupid n00b...

I downloaded BrewTarget and ran through their getting-started instructions, I think I get it. Seems like BeerSmith is the top software, at least it gets the most mentions...can someone tell me what it does better than BrewTarget, or what it does that BrewTarget doesn't do? Just trying to...

Hello all. I've been homebrewing for about a year and a half now, learned a lot lurking on these forums. Every time I Google something about beer (most recently advice on kettles) I usually wind up here, so figured I may as well stop lurking and start talking. Got a maibock lagering in the...