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Hey everyone, I have a few years of brewing under my belt, but I have never tried to brew a saison and I love that style of beer. I was thinking of doing a dry, slightly peppery and citrus version with maybe some hop presence to it as well since I am a hop head. Either way, it doesn't have to be...

I brewed a Belgian Dubbel, however I tried it after fermentation and it tasted a bit thin. Either way I fermented for about 3 weeks and now I have kegged the beer. I want to condition the beer in the keg for about 2 or 3 months. So I have two questions. The first is what temperature should I...

Hey guys, I want to get a recipe for a lager to drink in the Winter. I know this is a broad question. I guess I'm looking for a lager that has body, flavor, and some alcohol. Maybe even some spice additions or honey. I'm open to all suggestions. I want to get this started in early September...

Sorry, I'm at work so don't have too much time research. quick question. Can I just keep my blowoff tube on the primary the whole time or should I put the airlock in after the rigorous fermentation as seized?

So I'm brewing a Hefeweizen and its on day 3. I have it inside my rigged freezer for temperature control. i usually use a 3 piece airlock but i was worried about the krausen getting too high so I'm using a blowoff tube connected to a bowl of sanitized water. So im opening the door to the fridge...

Hey guys, I plan on brewing a blueberry flavored hefeweizen in a week and I could use some advice on the fruit addition. My base beer is going to be Northern Brewer's Bavarian Hefeweizen all grain recipe using Wyeast 3068 yeast. The boil hop addition is 1 ounce Tettnang at 60 minutes. I'm...

Hey guys, I left my blow off tube in my sanitizer bucket for about 2 weeks and when I pulled it out today it had like some cream colored liquid on the tube and the tube had turned like a light blue color! Plus, the tube is now sticky. I am using Star San at the recommended amount the...

I couldn't find the answer I was looking for so I'm hoping you guys can help me out, this question has been bugging me. Today I was brewing a brown ale and as the temperature almost reached boiling, a smooth coagulated film created itself on top of my wort. To my understanding, that is just...

So I went to dry hop yesterday and I was not happy with how my previous dry hops went. Previously, I had put the hops in a Muslin bag, tied it, and dropped it in the carboy. It would then hang out on top of the beer for around 5-7 days. I wanted my hops to sink to the bottom. This time I...

So I'm brewing an IPA and after 8 days in the primary there is still a significant Krausen at the top. I pitched at around 65F and after the first day my temp was around 55F, so I then brought it up to around 58F for a few days, then 62F the next few and now it is at 65F. The airlock seems...

Here I am jamming out to free bird while brewing beer. I heated up my mash water to 180 and started pouring into my Rubbermaid cooler. Of course, I'm zoned out to this music because the guitar solo started kicking in and I didn't even check to see if the ball valve was closed on the mash tun...

I'm brewing an IPA now and I plan on brewing the exact same IPA again next week. I plan on brewing on the same day that I rack off primary. I also plan on keeping the yeast cake on the bottom of the fermenter and then racking the new wort on top of that. My question is that the yeast cake...

I finished boiling the wort and did some whirlpooling. About 10 minutes before end of boil, I added Irish moss too. The temperature is now approximately 75 degrees F and there is a coagulated looking mass in the middle of the wort. Is this cold break? I sure hope so, around this mass the liquid...

Hey, Today I am bottling 2.5 gallons of a standard English Brown Ale. Beersmith suggests I bottle at 2.3 Volumes, which is 1.81 oz. of corn sugar. However, when I put 2.3 Volumes into the Brewersfriend.com priming calculator at 74F it suggests I use 2.2 oz. of corn sugar. My question is what...

Hi all, I plan on brewing a barleywine, or an old ale, soon and I am doing some research. I came across a few breweries who just use the first runnings when brewing barleywines. I read that Anchor does it for their Old Foghorn. Anyway, I don't understand why only the first runnings. I know...

Hello all, I just got a Northern Brewer 3 gallon kit (BIAB, even though I am not brewing in a bag, I plan on using my Rubbermaid mash/lauter tun) called Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale. Anyway, here are the mash ingredients: 5.5 lbs Fawcett Optic Malt 1 lb Flaked Oats 1 lb Belgian Munich Malt...

I have been brewing for some time now and I still can't figure out a good way of cooling down the wort to around at least under 90F to stick my hydrometer in to get a pre-boil gravity reading. This is what I do, I take my first runnings and then put them in the boiler and start heating. Then...

I am making a 2.2 gallon American Brown Ale because I wanted to test this beer out first before I made 5 gallons. Anyway, I am using a 10 gallon home depot mash tun. I heated my water to about 180 and left it in the mash tun to heat it up. I opened the lid about 10 minutes later to find it at...