Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – September 2025
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A day early
by Steve Ruch with 21 posts this month
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Sparge temperature of 180F for a wheat beer?
by Brewer #457364 with 9 posts this month
Hi – I am about to brew an Allagash Wheat beer and the recipe says that after a 60 minute infusion mash, there's a 10 minute sparge at 180 F. That seems dangerously high to me. Is it? Thanks!
Stuck Fermentation? Amber Lager
by Madru with 19 posts this month
Hello guys!I'd like some tips from my colleagues on understanding a possible stuck fermentation.I prepared an all-grain recipe for an amber lager with the following characteristics: Pre-boil …
Gesho Ethiopian Grut
by Brewer #399439 with 7 posts this month
I am brewing a beer now I have dubbed it SMaG (Single Malt and Gesho). Traditional Ethiopian beer is called "Tela", I think.I am using 9.5 kg pilsner malt on a 40 litre batch.I am completely re…
Hop Flavour
by cowboy7307 with 6 posts this month
going to make a 10lt brew , going to use a kit beer, and i want to add some fruity flavours to it , what amount of water would i need to boil for 10min to extract flavour but no bitterness
Pauls Malt
by BarbarianBrewer with 12 posts this month
It's time for me to pick up another sack of Maris Otter from my LHBS. I checked and find that they carry two brands of Maris Otter. One is Simpsons, which most of us are familiar with. The other…
Dry Hopped Red Ale/State of the brewery…
by Bigbre04 with 9 posts this month
Hey all,Looking for input on this recipe. (due to my schedule being upended, this is gonna have to get brewed tomorrow instead of next week)[URL]https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/em…
Grab your Balls….it's canning season!
by Ward Chillington with 4 posts this month
The garden finally started putting out enough tomatoes that I could put up a decent canner load of my base sauce. A simple recipe of 11 pounds of skinned tomatoes, 2 really big sweet onions and 3 …
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Dry Hopped Red Ale/State of the brewery…
by Bigbre04 on Thu, 11 Sep 2025 with 9 posts so far
Hey all,Looking for input on this recipe. (due to my schedule being upended, this is gonna have to get brewed tomorrow instead of next week)https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1…
Home Brewer of the Year Podcast
by HighVoltageMan! on Thu, 11 Sep 2025 with 2 posts so far
Home Brew Happy Hour had me on their latest podcast. If your interested, give a listen. I cannot be held responsible if you get bored!https://homebrewhappyhour.libsyn.com/brewing-award-winning-…
Stuck Fermentation? Amber Lager
by Madru on Thu, 11 Sep 2025 with 19 posts so far
Hello guys!I'd like some tips from my colleagues on understanding a possible stuck fermentation.I prepared an all-grain recipe for an amber lager with the following characteristics: Pre-boil …
Sparge temperature of 180F for a wheat beer?
by Brewer #457364 on Wed, 10 Sep 2025 with 9 posts so far
Hi – I am about to brew an Allagash Wheat beer and the recipe says that after a 60 minute infusion mash, there's a 10 minute sparge at 180 F. That seems dangerously high to me. Is it? Thanks!
Hop Flavour
by cowboy7307 on Sun, 07 Sep 2025 with 6 posts so far
going to make a 10lt brew , going to use a kit beer, and i want to add some fruity flavours to it , what amount of water would i need to boil for 10min to extract flavour but no bitterness
Apply Altitude set in Equipment profile
by yesyves@gmail.com on Sun, 07 Sep 2025 with 9 posts so far
Equipment Profile lets us set our altitude and calculates resulting hops utilization factor. But in the recipe builder, I still need to insert adjusted utilization factor for every hop in the recip…
Gesho Ethiopian Grut
by Brewer #399439 on Fri, 05 Sep 2025 with 7 posts so far
I am brewing a beer now I have dubbed it SMaG (Single Malt and Gesho). Traditional Ethiopian beer is called "Tela", I think.I am using 9.5 kg pilsner malt on a 40 litre batch.I am completely re…
Pauls Malt
by BarbarianBrewer on Thu, 04 Sep 2025 with 12 posts so far
It's time for me to pick up another sack of Maris Otter from my LHBS. I checked and find that they carry two brands of Maris Otter. One is Simpsons, which most of us are familiar with. The other…
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