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I've got about 20 or so brews under my belt, but this is such a basic question I thought I'd post it here. I'm continually having trouble getting accurate gravity readings with my brews. Today I did the Brewer's Best Belgian Trippel kit (fingers crossed that it doesn't suck), and was supposed...

I'm currently brewing up Yooper's Lakefront IPA clone(ish) and will be dry hopping in a couple days. I've only dry hopped once previously, and found that the hop matter did not sink even after 10 days, and it made racking quite a nightmare. This time, I plan on throwing the pellets in a...

I'm just wondering if I'm just imagining this, or if others have picked up on. In the past I remember Hopslam having quite a noticeable honey flavor and resinous character to it. This year, it seems like just an all out citrus hop bomb. To be honest, I prefer it to previous experiences. This...

Hey all. It's been a little while since I've posted, because I took a job offer to go teach English in a city called Jinhua, in the Zhejiang province of China. Everything's been going great, but there is one major problem. There is literally no good beer out here to speak of. IPAs? No. Stouts...

I'm looking for an extract clone of Bell's Hopslam. I heard that AHS carries one but haven't even been able to locate it on the site. Otherwise, has anyone come up for a recipe for this? Thanks! :mug:

The question concerns steeping volume and the implications for flavor and tannin extraction. I recently brewed a milk stout, steeping 2 lb of grain in 6 lb of water and there is no astringency in the beer. I'm not sure though if I want to continue dilute steeping or not. For some reason, it's...

The extract batches that I have been doing lately all have the same dominant aroma, which is a kind of musty, old smell. My girlfriend and I both interpret the smell as sort of resembling something that's been in storage for a long time. It is not discernibly present in the actual flavor of the...

So I actually just had a dream that I ordered this at Founders which of course didn't look anything like Founders in my dream. The idea for a beer though was intriguing to me. Has anybody ever played around with an idea like this? I'm thinking maybe like a basic milk stout, with banana puree and...

I'm looking into the AHS Bavarian Hefeweizen as my next brew, but I really don't want more than a subtle clove favor in the mix. Really mt only two temperature options are to ferment at 63 ambient or about 72. I know that 63 will give me more clove than I want, but will 72 be pushing it? I...

I ferment my beer at my parents house because its the only place I have access to stable temperatures, and their genius foreign exchange student dragged a sleeping bag across my bucket fermenter and knocked the airlock off in the process. The beer is a robust porter and has been in there for...

I came across this online and I figured I'd post it here since it contains a lot of good information and other people might not have seen it yet. Subject: Yeast Q's- Dan Listerman- Dr. Cone Date: 2000-04-14 20:56:55 GMT From: Dan Listermann <[email protected]> Subject: Yeast...

I was hoping someone could clue me in as to what it is about this recipe that I've done twice now that creates a monster of a hot break. I steep .75 lb of caramel 60L, .75 lb of chocolate and .50 lb of roasted barley. Today I noticed that there was already a significant hot break and possibly...

Hey all, I got a new copper IC for Christmas, and plan on using it for the first time today. I am just wondering what steps I should take to make sure it's clean before I throw it in my wort. The instruction sheet recommended a couple cleaners to get any residual oil off of it, but the...

This is sort of revisiting the thoroughly discussed "how long in primary" discussion, but I don't have a lot of experience brewing porters and was hoping to get some opinion on aging the style specially. Tomorrow would be a convenient time for me to bottle a robust porter I put in primary on...

Well it's another sad day for my homebrewing. I recently had a stout which got infected and really started to show the flavor transformation at 2 weeks in the bottle, and since then I have brewed midwest ferocious IPA and bottled it. I started drinking it at a week, and now after it's been in...

Frequently when I drink any kind of really sugary alcoholic drink like a mike's hard lemonade or my homebrew cider, I get these weird painful cramps around my shoulder blades. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just a weirdo? Does anyone know what might cause this?

After brewing several batches with both US-05 and S-04, one distinct thing that I've noticed about the 04 vs. the 05 is that the 04 compacts incredibly well and practically paints itself to the bottom of bottles. So I'm wondering, has anyone found any styles of beer where they really feel the...

Mostly out of curiosity, I was hoping to get a little feedback on what might have caused a temporary off flavor in my recent brew. I brewed the ferocious IPA from midwest, and for the first week in the bottle it had an aroma and flavor of what I can only think to describe as musty. I had one...

Hey all. Has come across any really good extract recipe databases online (other than this one of course ;))? I'm looking for something that has some kind of user feedback on it as well. I've found beerrecipes.org but I don't know if maybe there are others out there.

This question is just about cold break material. The last batch I did which is currently in primary, I handled a little bit differently in that the top off water I dumped the wort into had been refrigerated rather than left to sit at room temp. When I took my gravity reading after this, I could...