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Making a Simcoe IPA with an OG of 1.066. Pitched a good 1098 slurry on June 2nd, with noticeable action after 18hrs. After 5 days of a healthy fermentation and still lots of airlock action, I racked to secondary (I had to leave town for 5 days and wasn't comfortable with it in the primary that...

Making a bit of a bastard beer tomorrow with ingredients I have laying around. I usually pitch 1056 for IPAs, but have a nice 1098 slurry I took out of the secondary from a pale ale 3 weeks ago and was thinking of just going with that. Any comments/ideas on how that'll affect this recipe...

I finally got around to looking at the temp control unit on my Whirlpool WAR449 keg fridge. At it's warmest setting it was sitting at 5C, far too cold for tasty brew! (All temp readings were taken at least 6hrs after adjustment with the thermometer in 2L of water.) The control unit is...

I have a conversion program that gives me two different imperial measurements for mass; troy or avdp. Which should I use when converting recipes to metric? For example, when converting hops, should I convert from troy ounces or avdp ounces to grams?

Monday evening I pitched a Wyeast 1098 smackpack into an IPA with an SG of 1.062. Forty-eight hrs later the krausen has fallen, took another reading and it came in at 1.014. Nice....and FAST. My question is this: Has there been any study done on the effects of fermentation speed on the...

Just installed my new bar-top taps last week and had a party on Saturday to break them in. My friend surprised me with these beautiful handles. the main bodies are walnut with bird's-eye maple caps on top. The inlays in the faces are zebra wood, tulip wood, and purple heart. Awesome!