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hey everyone, ive posted a couple questions for this on the 20l biab thread but i thought id update it to see what others have for advice and stuff. this is only my 6th or 7th AG batch, so please bear with my lack of knowledge and experience. i had all these leftovers and just wanted to throw...

hey brewers, about to bottle a 19L batch consisting of: 3.2kg jw pils 0.7kg jw dark munich 0.3kg jw wheat 30g ekg (60) 20g cascade (60) 15g galaxy (20) 15g cascade (20) 50g galaxy (dry hop in secondary for 7 days) got to an estimated 40 IBU, with an OG of 1.040 and an FG of 1.010 using US05...

hey brewers, i was looking to buy a 25kg bag but dont have a mill. are there any disadvantages to storing milled grain for an extended period of time? or how long does milled grain 'keep' for? thanks, boris

so i bumped my post to a new thread from the 20L BIAB lager one. so my brewday has been postponed until tomorrow morning, damn work and uni has got my ticket. but it also reminded me that i should ask about a hopping schedule for this recipe: 3kg BB Ale Malt 0.700kg JW Munich Malt 0.300kg...

as a new brewer im always waiting to see if the previous batch is any good to see what to change, which usually means at least a month between batches. curious how frequently people brew, e.g. once every couple of weeks or once a month etc?

hi, downloaded some recipes and one of them was this westmalle tripel extract clone one. what do you guys think? Yield: 5 gallons (18.9 L) Final gravity: 1.018-1.020 SRM 5-6 Original gravity: 1.088-1.090 IBU 26 9% alcohol by volume Steep: 4 oz. (113 g) Belgian aromatic malt Strain...

was looking up racking and came across this passage on homebrewtalk. the passage im referring to in particular is this: 'Many brewers consider racking to be an unnecessary step that exposes your beer to needless risks of infection and oxidation. In the experience of many brewers, you can...

hi ive posted this in the recipe discussion for the smurtos jsga but im running out of time so here it is in here. about to throw the extract version down and was just curious as to what i should use for the 60min hop boil (ie how much extract-wheat or light lme?). and would i be correct in...

looking for either an extract or partial belgian (strong)ale recipe to try out, any ideas? couldnt find much on the DB for those categories

hi, coming up to day 7 in the fermenter and the gravity is decreasing at a decreasing rate now. my last brew was a bavarian wheat, and im trying the same kit again to try and perfect technique to see where i made mistakes. in the last batch i put the finings in the day before i bottled, and...

just picked up 1.5kg of brewcraft wheat LME, 1kg of brewcraft wheat DME, 1kg of dextrose. ive read in a couple of books and online that that around a 70-85% of extract and 15-30% of dextrose are ideal. anyone have an opinion on certain amount percentages or exact proportion amounts that theyve...

hi, we recently put in a bavarian wheat and replaced the dextrose with dried malt extract. we were targeting an alc of around %5-6, but our OG came out at 1035. our final gravity stuck at around 1008, so it's well below our expectations, and what we thought the replacement of dextrose would...

hi ive brewed a couple of kits recently, so im trying to tweak them a bit to my liking, and just messing around with one or two alterations in order to get a better grasp of the whole mechanism. if i wanted to make a stronger belgian wheat, say i used the belgian wheat kit; how would i go about...