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I recently moved and had to toss my existing yeast bank. I brewed a pale ale about a month ago, and racked it into a secondary last night so I could pitch a Founders Double Trouble clone attempt on top of the WLP001 yeast cake. I want to use isinglass on the pale ale, and was wondering if...

Hi all, I was kegging up an ipa last night and may or may not have been a little drunk while doing so. While racking, I messed up and left like a gallon or two in the fermenter. To get it going again I had to blow some big air bubbles through the beer. I'm going to drink this up pretty quick...

Hi All, I have been mashing in my bottling bucket and using a BIAB bag to remove the grains to drain it. I typically add the grains (~11 lbs) and then fill it with water to mash in at 154ish (~2.2 qt/lb). I then let it sit, drain it into my kettle and sparge (single batch, and again, guessing...

I brewed a barleywine recently and racked it directly onto a yeast cake from a pale ale. Twelve days later I checked the gravity and it is down to 1.018 from 1.098! The sample wasn't bad, but it is too dry to mask the 10.3 abv and the mouthfeel is is not as thick as I would like. Are there...

So I made my first barleywine attempt on Tuesday. It was a partial mash with 13 lbs of grain and 6 lbs of dme. OG came out to be 1.098, which was about 7 points off my target. I am still trying to optimize my BIAB system and boil off rate so I was ok with this. Basically a little extra went into...

Today I did my third brew in a bag attempt of a pale ale I am trying to dial in. The malt bill has been the same every time, only hop additions are different. First time I was way off my og. Last time it went perfectly. I hit all of my numbers and I am drinking the beer now. This time around...

I named my homebrewing operation Komodo brewing company a while ago, and my buddy recently has been making some cool artwork and logos for me. I wanted to make some custom tap handles to show off his work. I decided a tap with a Komodo head coming out of the top of it would be awesome, so I...

Hi All, I brewed my first all grain BIAB recipe a few weeks back (citra pale ale), but I got what I thought was horrible efficiency out of my grain. Based on the feedback from this forum, It sounds like my efficiency was OK, but I diluted my brew without realizing what I was doing. I ended up...

I just tried my hand at BIAB for the first time, and my OG is 1.020. Beer tastes like water. I realized I should have investigated how to BIAB a little more before I tried it. I plan on going to my LHBS and buying some DME to make the beer drinkable tomorrow. I basically treated it like a...

Hi all, I have an off flavor in my IPA which is making it borderline undrinkable. The flavor becomes more pronounced the more I drink the beer. Basically, my tongue gets super dry and it has a harsh, not hoppy bitter flavor on it. From what I have read, I think that this is the astringency...

Hi all, So I finished my kegerator build (see attached) a few days back and kegged a raspberry wheat and an ipa. I've been out of town for the past few days, and after my roommate got control of the kegerator's temperature (sitting at 36F right now), I tried to pour them both. What is strange...

So I finished my first kegging last night, and it was certainly interesting. Figured out how all of my equipment worked and kegged a raspberry wheat beer with no problems. Unfortunately, I kegged an ipa only to find out that the pressure release valve leaked. I managed to MacGyver an o ring by...

Hi all, So I am trying to formulate a recipe for my first Saison. I am looking for a malty beer with a some mouthfeel with some roasty flavor and notes of raisins and caramel. Some spices would be nice too. Here is what I have so far. 8 # Pilsner LME 7.2 oz Caramunich 6.4 oz Special B...

So I tried Green Flash's Hop Head Red last week and I was blown away. I want to try my hand at making a partial mash recipe, and after looking at their website and searching these forums, here is what I came up with. Hop Head Read Partial Clone 5 Gal Batch 5 lbs Extra Pale LME 3 lbs...

So I made a new recipe for a IPA with the help of my LHBS, and the OG came out to be 1.080... about 20 points higher than I expected. It was a PM, but I don't have the recipe on me atm. I will post it once I get back to school. My question is regarding whether or not I needed a yeast starter...

Hi all, So I just finished bottling my first batch of beer... what a mess. How do you guys bottle? Any special or effective techniques you guys use. Also, I suck at using my autosiphon. Between bottling and siphoning, I think I feel like I have oxygenated my beer quite a few times. Any...

Hey guys, Just brewed up my first beer last night (dry irish stout), and made a few errors, but I think everything is okay. However, I came home today from class and the yeast, at least I think its yeast, had bubbled up into airlock at the top of my carboy. When I checked this morning...

Hi! I'm a college student who discovered how much I love good beer while studying in Australia. Now that I'm back state side, I want to give it a shot. I've done a fair amount of reading and I'm really excited to start brewing. I've decided to try my hand at an IPA first. I'm not sure how...