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Need your help formulating an IPA with a HUGE citrus character. I researched "citrus bomb" and hop combinations and came up with some ideas but I thought I could go bigger so I'm calling this Citrus Nuclear Carpet Bomb IPA. Obviously, this recipe will focus on hops, so I'm curious about your...

Does anyone have any experience with the relatively new Maris Otter LME from Northern Brewer? I'm curious what your perception of its fermentability is. This will be my first time using it and I'm trying to decide if I put a little sugar in to help get the FG around 1.010-1.012. I expect it...

I'm surprised nobody posted this yet. Spend $74.99 or more at Williams brewing and enter coupon code X21 before Saturday 12/15/2013 at 3pm Pacific Time and they will throw in 6 oz of 2012 Citra hop pellets. Would be a good opportunity to stock up on some holiday brews or some gear, like...

Looking for some feedback on a recipe I whipped up. My goal is to make a wheat beer with a citrus character for some friends who like Blue Moon and Shock Top type beers. I also want to make it quickly, so I'm planning a smaller batch with 30 minute boil and using dry yeast instead of liquid...

Going to brew an IPA this weekend and would like some input on my recipe. I've tweaked it several times but would like final confirmation. My goal is basically to make a solid, C-hopped IPA. This recipe is somewhat based off of the Stone IPA recipes out there. My hops are fresh 2012 whole...

Looking for some feedback on an upcoming Belgian IPA recipe. I've read that starting with a solid American IPA and using Belgian yeast is a good way to make this style, so that is what I've tried to do. This is what Stone does by turning Stone IPA into Cali-Belgique, so my recipe is loosely...

Looking for some feedback on an IPA recipe that uses Centennial, Amarillo, and Simcoe. Calling it Biker Gang IPA because I'm brewing it with some friends and we all ride bikes (as in triathlon, road racing bicycles) The malt will be All-Grain: 90% 2-row, 6% Crystal 20, 2% Carapils, and 2%...

How do you make GOOD homebrew? Like a beer that you can honestly put up against even a mid-range commercial beer and say that you'd prefer to drink your homebrew? I started this hobby about a year ago and have done 12 batches, constantly improving my technique and equipment, and I can honestly...

I have 2 oz Nugget and 3 oz Zythos to use and I'm curious how they would interact. I've never used either of them. If used later, would the Nugget's herbal/spicy flavor counteract the citrus of the Zythos? I saw somewhere that someone said Nugget and Cascade worked well together so it makes...

Looking for some help to see if I'm thinking in the right direction here. My buddy brewed an all-grain Stone Levitation Ale clone, intended to be around 1.048 OG and 45 IBU. Long story very short, he planned for really bad efficiency like he got on his first AG brew so he added 3 lbs of grain...

Made an Amber Ale the other day and now I'm not sure what to dry hop it with. Very easy recipe: 1 lb Crystal 20 steeping grains, 6.5 lbs amber DME (1.055 OG), 1.2 oz Centennial at 60 and another 1.0 oz at 5 minutes. It will be rather hoppy, not quite IPA-level but definitely hoppy. This...

Hopefully this is an easy question. I used my stir plate for the first time last night. I'm excited to finally be able to pitch the correct population. Made a 1.2L starter in a 2L flask, put it on the stir plate and got a dimple going about half way deep. Then this morning I check on it and...

Planning a 10 gallon batch of IPA and I'd like some feedback nailing down the recipe because I'm still relatively new at formulating recipes. Basically I don't have much to go on right now other than that fact that I like crisp, clean, hoppy IPA's and have a bunch of whole leaf hops to choose...

After reading about all of the benefits of long primary fermentations, I've decided to give it a shot on several beers on my schedule over the next couple of months. In fact, I bottled an amber ale two weeks ago after a 3.5 week primary, an IPA currently in primary for 3.5 weeks, and an ESB...

I'd like to try oak aging on an IPA that I'll be transferring to secondary in the next couple of days, but I want to be conservative. I'd like the beer to be ready for Christmas, so I don't have time to let it mellow out if it gets much oak flavor. I've done a lot of research and found that...

Going to brew this weekend and wanted a final check of my recipe. Two Brothers Resistance IPA is one of my favorites and they actually emailed me the recipe so I'm going to give it a try. For reference, here is what they told me: Grain: 89% Base 2 row, 3% Crystal 10, 6% Munich, 2%...

First post here! Been lurking for a while and learning a lot so I decided to sign up in hopes of getting some help converting a recipe to extract. The recipe is Two Brother's Resistance IPA, and here is what they emailed me for a 5 gallon recipe: Mash: 152F for 60 minutes. OG=1.070...