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    When should I remove the hops?

    I have been home brewing for three years and feel I am doing it all wrong. I have been trying to brew extract IPA's with whole leaf hops using SS mesh cylinders to contain the hops. I can stuff 4 oz of hops into each canister and typically on a 5 gallon batch, I will add at 60/30/0 minutes with...
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    What hit my casecade hops???

    I was out of town for 4 days & when I returned my casecade hops were attacked by this brown wilt. My suspicion is blight, any feedback?
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    How do I know I have enough yeast for my batch size?

    My 13th brew session was an extract brew West Coast IPA. I had some issues during the brew with my equipment in cooling the wort that resulted in a foamy mess. (The transfer pump was unrestricted which made the flow too rapid) I had estimated a batch size of 7 gallons in a 10 gallon fermenter...
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    Best way to chill?

    I have 13 extract brews under my belt and have tinkered with the best way to chill my wort. I began with adding bagged ice to my partial boil to bring up the volume and bring down the temp. I found my beer had much more character when I used a full boil and yet cooling down the wort has become a...
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    Fermentor size?

    I have 15 extract brews under my belt. I use a 10 gallon stainless pot for my boil and push the maximum capacity of a 6.5 gallon plastic ALE Pail. I brew Ale's because of the fermenting temperatures do not requiring refrigeration. Many of my brews have used bagged ice to both lower the wort temp...
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    Not all advice is good.

    In an effort to brew a clearer beer, I read somewhere that if you use your whole cones as a filter prior to bottling, it will naturally trap the suspended particles in the cones resulting in a clear beer. Total Bull$&it!!! It washed out additional shit and made my beer into something I am not...

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