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Over the weekend I brewed an IPA for the first time with my plate chiller and I didn't think about how narrow the restrictions would be. A near complete plug ensued. After I salvaged 4 gallons of my brew I was looking through the new William's Brewing catalog and I saw their new (I think) hop...

No I didn't ask her to marry me...that happened a while ago. So some background, we just moved to Shreveport, LA and downsized to an apartment for 6 months or so while we decide in what part of town we want to buy a house. My fermentation fridge somehow landed in the dining room. That's just...

Free burner! Just come pick it up. Located in Crossett, AR. The burner was given to me by a friend even though I told him I already had one. I have never used it but he had been using it as a fish fryer. He bought a fancy "Cajun microwave" so he didn't need the burner anymore. Does not include...

I'm well versed at using BeerSmith with all-grain recipes but I want to brew an extract recipe from AlphaPryo that looks great. This is my first time using BeerSmith for an extract recipe. I tried putting the recipe into BeerSmith with some odd results. The file is attached. When you look at...

I've got a strawberry blonde going for SWMBO and I have a quick question about filtering. Do I need to do my best to clear the beer before filtering or can I go ahead and filter without clearing it. There's a lot of trub and yeast and strawberry puree gunk in the carboy. This is my first time...

Has anybody else noticed the weird posts lately that don't make any sense? Seems like they are just trying to up their post count for no reason. I've seen two different users do this today and both of them only had like 10 posts. All of them were this weird spam crap.

So I bought a pack of various and sundry hops fairly cheap. I've decided make a one gallon batch with each variety to get a good feel for each one. Kind of like a SMaSH recipe but I will probably only use light or maybe amber DME since all I care about is the hops. I'm not really even trying to...

I just pulled the first few pints off of my Munich Helles. It's a good beer but it has an odd taste. It's kind of a bitter taste in the center of the tongue. Maybe a little grainy as well. My first though was astringency but it doesn't have that puckering quality that I normally associate with...

I brewed AHS Jester King Commercial Suicide Dark Mild clone a while ago and loved it. This recipe is based off of that with some modifications. I look forward to all critiques! Also, I debated trying a no-sparge mash with this one. Do you think it would be a good idea? How would I need to...

I racked my latest brew to a keg yesterday and noticed an odd hazy film on the side of my carboy. It only seemed to be on the upper half of the surface covered by beer and did not extend above the beer. As the beer level came down it seemed to draw some of it off the wall and into the beer...

So due to the fact that I ended up with double the grain for my hefeweizen recipe that I ordered, I decided I would brew it twice: once with a decoction mash and once with an infusion mash. The rests were going to be 123, 146, 154 (95 dough in for decoction). The decoction mash went great and I...

I've recently cracked open a few bottles of my hefeweizen and have noticed a weird "lacing" as I drink it. Is this excess protein or yeast or what? Would this be considered a flaw? The beer tastes amazing but this isn't very aesthetically pleasing to me and not what I remember about hefeweizens...

So last week I was supposed to get an order from AHS which was somehow screwed up. I called them and they shipped out my order again that day and I got it two days later. AHS is pretty awesome just because of that! :rockin: I found out today that they had shipped it to my old address for some...

Hopefully none of you will ever have the misfortune of living in Crossett, AR. But in case you do, here's the water report. I put the water through a KDF/GAC RV filter since that's what I planned to use when brewing. I'm pretty sure this water is unsuitable for most styles of beer since to get...

I'm going to brew a hefeweizen soon and would like to bottle it in the traditional 500 mL bottles. I want to be able to fill my 500 mL weissbier glass with just one bottle. Does anyone know where I can buy a case of these? I checked AHB, Morebeer, and Northern but no luck. No LHBS... Thanks!

Just had to show off my new toys that SWMBO got me for the last few holidays! I still need to cut the rim off the door shelf and reinstall the seal on my ferm fridge but my jig saw is too loud for this time of night. Empty carboy to be remedied this weekend! :rockin: Also, the bud light is...

I've had an interesting phenomenon happen to me with several beers that haven't been as popular so they hang around a lot longer. After 8 months or so in the bottle, a few of my recipes have become excessively carbonated. They foam over as soon as I pop the cap and while I pour but don't seem...

Thinking about building a Randalizer. Why do most people drill holes along the entire length of the center tube? Wouldn't you get more hop greatness by having big holes at the far end so more beer has more contact time with the hops?

I'm getting married in about a month and unfortunately I'll have to stop brewing full batches for a while until SWMBO and I find a bigger place. I REFUSE to stop brewing though so I'm going to set myself up to brew somewhere around one gallon size batches. I figure since these will be small they...

My dad I just upgraded to a 10 gal Blichman with the false bottom to act as our MLT. It has a dip tube that starts above the false bottom and goes underneath the false bottom to make sure only minimal wort is left over. The problem we've been having is getting a vapor lock in the "upper bend" of...