I am on a short schedule for my next brew that is currently in the fermenter. For this one I will dry hop in the keg with a hop-sock and use a floating dip-tube. Because of the tight time schedule my plan is to use the ol' overpressure the keg and roll it / shake it around for a while. My...

Thinking about bottling some Belgian Golden Ale I currently have in the keg fully carbed to compare with future brewings of the same recipe. I've done it before to just take to a party and it gets consumed within a few hours, but if I intend to keep it in the bottle for longer (few weeks to...

I would like to try this recipe from Baschbrew: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/872225/tremens-clone but I use a simple picnic cooler for my mashtun and do a single batch sparge. I've attached the mash guideline for quick reference: Can someone please recommend strike and...

Greetings Brewers, I brewed a partial mash IPA this weekend and I have a question on batch sparging. I use a picnic cooler Mash Tun and do a strike and a single sparge. For this brew I took samples of the first and second runnings to measure the gravity of each - just to see myself how much I...

In John J. Palmer's book "How to Brew" (4th Ed.) he talks about several different ways to chill the wort before pitching the yeast. One is what he calls No Chill - which is basically where you pour the hot wort into a high-density polyethylene jerry can with a screw top. He tells you to...

Happy New Year fellow brewers - many wishes for a better 2021. As may be appropriate for 2020, I am ending the year thinking my batch of a Weizenböck went bad early in the fermentation process. Here's the grain bill: Wheat Malt - 1.8 kg Munich Malt - 1.0 kg Pale Ale Malt - 0.9 kg CaraRed -...

Hi Folks, first time poster, sorry if this is in the wrong place. I copied a Maibock recipe from HighVoltageMan! and totally missed on the OG. My measured OG was 1.042, which will result in a pathetic ABV of 3.81% if the rest of the brew goes to plan. I am also worried that I'm going to be...