I thought that title would get a laugh! I always do brew in a bag in a 10-gallon Blichman. The last time I brewed about two months ago I remember washing out my bag with the garden hose after I had dumped all of the grain and then I always hang it up to dry on a couple of hooks near the area...

I brew about 6 times per year. I have been using the Big Mouth plastic fermenter. Works fine and I place it in a cheap dorm fridge with a Inkbird controller. I am feeling like I should probably replace this soon as it has 15 brews from me and unknown number from the guy I bought it from. I...

Have done this many times previously. Flushed the keg with CO2. Transferred my English Brown Ale to my 5 gallon keg on Friday morning. Attached the tank and put it in my kegerator. I left it set at my usual 7-8 PSI as I found that gives me good serving carbonation. I had to travel so when I...

I live in MS. We have been without power for 5 days. I put an english brown ale with White Labs - English Ale Yeast WLP002 into fermenter on Jan 11. Had temp set for 66 degrees. Well on Jan 24 we lost power. It has not been frozen, but I bet it is down to 40s since. Hoping for power by...

I haven't brewed in 6 months. Lots of personal stuff going on. Finally got a chance to pull out my gear and clean everything off. Getting ready to have a brew day on Saturday or Sunday depending upon my honey-do list. Can't find my Brew bag. I have some vague memory that it had a couple small...

Brewed the same recipe now for a 3rd time and I got to thinking. The recipe says to dry hop at 5 days. Should I have done that exactly at the same number of hours after brewing each time or am I over thinking this? Do professional brewers do everything exactly at the same timing each batch...

I am using single Blichmann 10 gallon with boil coil doing BIAB. Have chugger pump and plate chiller, whirlpool port and ultimate sparge arm (yeah that is overkill for BIAB, but I owned it already and haven't researched a better solution for recirculation). Excuse the mess, but see attached...

I have one set of quick connect fittings that are an absolute nightmare to put on and take off (I have to tap the collar with a hammer). I have soaked them in hot water and PBW thinking there was beer/wort in them, but no change. Tried some keg lube on the ball bearings with not much change...

Finished up brewing last night. While whirlpooling, I typically pull my hop spider out so it is not in the way for the whirlpool action. It takes me probably 5 minutes for that to drain. It just drips. I got me thinking (this recipe only had 2 oz of hops). If it is only dripping because...

Maybe I am doing this wrong. I added a couple "target profiles" for brown ales I want to hit under My Brewing/My Profile/Water Profiles. In the water chemistry section of a brew session, I assumed source profile (Abbeville-profile I created from a water test) was my source water (tap, ro...

Live in Mississippi. 2 hour round trip to local brewery shop. Going to order online. Most sites say that they can't guarantee yeast stays cold (understandable at 94 degrees every day). Thinking about switching to dry yeast for this batch. I have brewed 6 times with liquid yeast and happy...

I don't feel like I get the hoses very clean compared to the rest of my equipment. Especially ones with the quick connectors or the beer ball locks. Thinking about rigging up a hot water fitting system where I can connect each hose when I am done with it to purge it with hot water at high...

I used to run my pump during boil for recirculation, but then read that the high heat can burn them out. Everyone still agree that doing this is bad? I understand the theory of running boiling wort through your plate chiller and such to sterilize. As you expect (even without the cold water...

Had my water tested. Figured out what I need to add to my water. I have a water profile saved. I don't understand how to bring that data into a new recipe so it shows the adds. Do I need to create a new water calculation for each brew?

Not urgent, just curious. My profile says 5 brew sessions, but I only see 2 listed below. https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/756240/coconut-brown-ale Do I need to mark them as public or something?

Looking at this recipe. Going to use extract instead of real coconut. https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/756240/coconut-brown-ale No details in recipe about when to add the American - Dark Chocolate - (late boil kettle addition). Would you do 15 minutes remaining in the boil...

First brew with my new setup. I did a LME brew today (I alternate back and forth between this and all grain). Nut Brown Ale. I entered everything into a recipe in BF (it was a kit from my LHB store). There was only 1 pound of grain in a bag. Water requirements said 6.66 gallons (to end up...

I am setting up my new equipment. Doing single vessle, BIAB in 10g Blichmann with boil coil. Not sure what the difference is between: Kettle Losses-The amount of liquid (and gunk) left behind in your kettle in quarts or liters. Can be thought of as trub losses. Mash Lauter Tun Losses-Amount of...

I had my water tested by Ward Labs. I created a profile for the water and then brought in a recipe. I chose the balanced profile for the target water selection. I see there are some large deltas. For example, CA is 6.0 and delta is 74.0. I was assuming the calculator would say "to hit your...

Hi. Done a few AG brews. Since batch #2 I have been using a refrigerator with a warming wrap and an inkbird. I set it at 70 degrees, but notice it will often be 67 degrees or so. Inkbird defaults to 3 degrees variance. How much should I worry about the variability of the temp? I am mostly...