First question I have is, did you take a reading right after your cool down and before adding your yeast? If you did not take a reading at that time taking a reading now is worthless. You need to have that first reading before fermentation starts, then after it stop you would take another...

There is a lot more involved then just hops. Lagers, IPA's, pale ales, etc all have different grain builds and hops. If you are wanting to clone someones beer I suggest you try and figure out whats in it first, what do you taste, what do you smell, whats the mouth feel, try to find a clone of...

Here it is all done and ready to go, guess it's time to brew a couple of batches :D

I think I posted this before but here ya go, AMARILLO 8-10% Bittering, Flavor Oils 1.5-1.9 A flowery, citrus-like aroma (more orange than grapefruit) with medium bittering value that is gaining acceptance as a substitute for Cascade due to its hardy nature. Used For: Good for bittering and...

As a guest you cant delete anything. As for the water profile, you can look up water profiles for your area or have your water tested and build a profile off that. The water profile will be the water you are using, not some made up info. I for one don't use a water profile, have never had my...

Not sure how you added your sugar, but I have had an issue when just putting it in the bucket and then racking over and the sugar not getting mixed well, so now it gets stirred every time. What I have seen is that if I don't stir it a bit, is that the sugars are still at the bottom of the bucket...

The thing that bothers me most about your photo is the head space you left. If you start with a 6 gallon rack to a 5 gallon you don't want a lot of air like that in there, that is asking for trouble. Like others have said though, taste it, if its ok leave it alone. I would look for a 5 gallon...

So some of you may remember the post I did, "Dry hops idea" http://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1541 and a post by "The brew mentor" about Mosaic hops, http://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1209 in that post I posted a recipe I was making and dry hopping...

Setting at our Tiki bar by the pond in the back yard in the middle of nowhere.

I am using as a dry hop in my latest beer and the samples have been great. STATS: Original Gravity: 1.069 Final Gravity: 1.018 ABV (standard): 6.68% IBU (tinseth): 77.31 SRM (morey): 6.58 FERMENTABLES: 7 lb - Liquid Malt Extract - Light (63.6%) 2 lb - Dry Malt Extract - Light (18.2%) 1 lb -...

Just means stronger beer (little more alcohol) what the problem :D

Whats your favorite finishing hops and why? I've tried a few different hops for dry hop finishing and just want to know what everyone else uses and why.

Nice blog, I will check in often for new post

in the recipe editor, in the top right corner you will see "recipe tools" if you click that a drop down window will open, scroll down to "scale" click that and change it to the size of batch you want.

I have dry hopped before (method (1) below) and was looking for other dry hopping ideas when I came across this article. I have been thinking about trying the second method listed here and was wondering if anyone has tried this before. Might be interesting. *************** (1) Many commercial...

Handy little chart. as for saving what you have, nope, just keep a beer glass handy :D

I'm debating rather I should prime or not prime this beer. Please see topic: http://www.brewersfriend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1502 I don't want bottle bombs. Thoughts?

UPDATE: I racked it over again Saturday, gravity is still reading 1.020, after setting all night there is no sign of fermentation going on now, but have another yeast cake on the bottom, may go ahead and bottle here in a few days.

Thanks guys, I will check it again Saturday, today it was 1.020 that's a .016 drop since last checked on 4/26 I have a feeling it's still dropping, but as you say only a good hydrometer gravity reading can tell for sure. I will update my findings Saturday.

I started this beer back on 4/7 it got racked over to secondary on 4/26 when it had slowed down to 5 bubbles per minute, here it is 5-1/2 weeks later and it is still bubbling at 3 per minute. Should I be concerned or just let it keep going, I've never had one go this long, it smells good, taste...