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Hello all. I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. So i decided to try out this recipe that i thought of. Its a simple 2.5 gallon smash recipe. I'm not really trying to hit a certain ABV. I wont be adding any bittering hops, all my hop additions will be later. I will be using all citra...

Hello all. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. So i just ordered the 6.5 gallon Anvil foundry yesterday from northern brewer. It will be here some time next week. I will be using it for 5 gallon extract batches. I want to add the LME in to the mash pipe, & mix it in like that so the...

Hello all. So i got myself a 5 gallon extract recipe kit from northern brewer. It's the Karma Citra IPA kit. I've always wanted to try it. The recipe goes as follows. 6lbs golden light LME 1lbs of gold DME, & 0.75lbs caramel 40. The hop schedule is 0.5 oz Centennial @ 60, 1oz Casade @ 20, 10z...

Hello all. How are you guys doing? I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. Well it's saturday night, im just kicking back sipping on this mosaic ipa that i brewed a ways back. My wife is watching some dumb ass LMN movie (as usual) I was thinking about brewing my favorite beer style...

Hello all. So as the title states im in the market for a new fermenter. There are 3 stainless steel fermenters that i have my eyes on. The Sovereign from northern brewer, the Anvil 7.5 gallon, & the SS brewtech 7 gallon fermenter. I really like the SS brewtech. I really like their products...

Hello all. Happy new year! I hope everyone had a safe,& happy new year. So i just got a wort aeration system from northern brewer.(its just an aquarium pump with the tubing, a filter, & the stone.) It just arrived today, ill be brewing this coming weekend. The instructions say to aerate for 30...

Hello all. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. So i'll be brewing my first five gallon batch in about 2-3 weeks. I've been brewing 2.5 gallons, & before that i was brewing 1 gallon batches. I did some research, & i bought the fermenter that i like. Its the Chapman 7 gallon (ported)...

Hello all. So my wife just got me a northern brewer one gallon extract recipe kit. It's the chinook ipa. It came with what i think is US-05. (which is the yeast that i use most of the time.) I've used S-04, & S-33 as well. I've brewed the chinook ipa before, & it is a good beer. I was thinking...

Hello all. So ill be brewing an American brown ale (partial extract) in the next week or so. Its a 2.5 gallon batch. I would like to add some chocolate powder to the beer. I'm looking for a nice subtle aftertaste. I don't want it to be overpowering. The thing is i don't know how much to add...

Hello all. I'll be making a mango IPA in the next week or so. I was thinking of using some flavored water to add a little more citrus flavor to the beer. As far as the mango, I was going to add some mango extract to the bottling bucket, then the priming solution, then rack on top of that. I was...

Hello all. So I just got the ss brewtech 3.5 gal brew bucket. I am super excited about it, & can't wait to try it out for the first time. Unfortunately I am unable to brew this weekend. So I'm going to have to wait until next Saturday to brew up a batch. This is my first time ever using a ss...

Hello all. So I just finished bottling my American west coast red ale. Batch size is somewhere between one gallon, & a gallon & a half. ( I'm guessing about 1.4 gallons.) I dry hopped with two ounces of casade this past Wednesday. I used a simple muslin bag, & weighted it down with some...

Hello all. So I just bottled a one gallon batch of Northern Brewer's zombie dirt ( great beer by the way.) I got a OG of 1.036 ( which is kind of low.) & a FG of 1.004. which gave me an ABV of 4.2. What I'd like to do is raise that ABV to about 7.5. According to my calculations ( & please...

Hello all. So I brewed a one gallon batch of northern Brewer's German blonde last Saturday. I pitched at 60, which was to low because I got a lag for about a day & a half. I threw a t-shirt in the dryer for about 20 mins, then wrapped it around the little big mouth bubbler. Fermentation took...

Hello all. As some of you may know, I'm a one gallon brewer. Right now I have two of the little big mouth bubblers that I got from northern Brewer. I'm really considering upgrading to Brewing two gallon batches. I'm really interested in buying the SS brewtech 3.5 mini conical, along with the...

Hello all. I'll be using iodophor for the first time. In about two weeks I'll be brewing an American IPA. Like I said it's my first time using this sanitizer, so I really don't know much about it. Other that how much to add to a gallon & a half of water. I was wondering if anyone could give me...

Hello all. So I ordered a package deal that came with 5 packets of 1oz of corn sugar from Amazon. I received them today & noticed that all 5 packets say 1oz, but have different amounts of corn sugar in them. 3 are full, one is half full, & the last one has a little less than half. I don't...

Hello all. So I just bottled a one gallon batch of an American cream ale. I had 9 sanitized 12oz bottles. When I finished the 9th bottle I saw that I still had some beer left in the bottling bucket. So I grabbed two bottles that were in the case & filled them up. I didn't realize till...

Hello all. So I just got two one gallon recipe kits from northern Brewer today. I ordered the zombie dirt, & the dead ringer. The zombie dirt came with S-04 ( which I don't like) I must have overlooked that , because I would have ordered a packet of US-05 to ferment with in place of the s-04...

Hello all. It's still kind of up in the air, but I've been thinking about trying the BIAB method in a partial mash recipe. An American red ale is my favorite beer style , so I thinking of using some of that weyermann carared. Now please correct me if I'm wrong ( because I really dont know...