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Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – June 2024

Monday, June 24th, 2024

Most Discussed Topics

Five gallons?
by Steve Ruch with 22 posts this month
Five gallon batches are considered the norm. What size does everyone actually brew?

First All-Grain (BIAB) Recipe – SMaSH Pale Ale
by Brewer #430359 with 60 posts this month
As the title says, a friend and I are going to brew our first all-grain (BIAB) recipe in the next couple of weeks, and I was looking to get any feedback. We decided to go for a SMaSH beer, so we co…

Did I move to secondary too soon?
by Msquared with 15 posts this month
[I]Our brewing group did a Belgian Quad at a commercial brewery. Everyone buys a carboy or 2 of wort does their own thing and brings it back around November to taste and compare. Beer had an og of …

“You know, what I really need is…”
by Tim Bulin with 12 posts this month
Well what DO you :really” need? I’ll start…I really need to add ANOTHER pump and further overly complicate things in the interest of saving 10 minutes of work a month…

Hi all. Haven’t brewed in around 25 years and things have really changed.
by Brewer #430125 with 10 posts this month
I used to brew a lot back when. The county I live in and the surrounding ones were dry counties until a few years ago and the nearest adult beverages could only be found an hour and a half away at …

My Red Ale
by PaiboonL with 8 posts this month
This is my 3rd time brewed Irish Red Ale in Bangkok. It has biscuit flavors.

Top Off/Dilution Water pH?
by mikezepponi@gmail.com with 10 posts this month
I have a 7.5 gallon Anvil Kettle, and I’d like to try a BIAB in it. In order to get the volume I want for my fermenter I’ll need to add a about half a gallon of water to roughly 5.5 gallons of wor…

Major #$@& up!!
by Vallka with 12 posts this month
Ok bet you havn’t done this one……….Oh ya, hi everyone.So today was my first batch of the season, been really busy with a daughter grad:)Everything is going prefect, hitting #’s nice weathe…

Newest Topics

Adding new Tilt to Pi when another Tilt is using it…
by Yontsey on Mon, 24 Jun 2024 with 3 posts so far
Is it possible, or what’s the best way to go about adding another Tilt to a Raspberry Pi when another Tilt is currently in a fermentation? I did a brew session yesterday and have my Tilt going, but…

Vastly Diff Temps From Chiller to Ferm
by Yontsey on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 with 14 posts so far
So I finished my boil and ran my chiller on my G30. I ran it forever but got it down to 71° according to the Grainmaster. I transferred it to my SS Brew Bucket and tossed in my Tilt and it’s say…

Oxidization
by cowboy7307 on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 with 4 posts so far
when we put the cooled wart into fermenter we are told to oxygenate the beer by stirring the crap out of it.But at bottling told be so careful not to oxidize it , why by string before fermentation…

Top Off/Dilution Water pH?
by mikezepponi@gmail.com on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 with 10 posts so far
I have a 7.5 gallon Anvil Kettle, and I’d like to try a BIAB in it. In order to get the volume I want for my fermenter I’ll need to add a about half a gallon of water to roughly 5.5 gallons of wor…

Is my yeast pack good?
by Yontsey on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 with 3 posts so far
I have a Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast packet I got from Northern Brewer a couple weeks ago and didn’t pay attention and tossed it in the fridge. Pulled it out this morning and can’t tell if the activat…

Favorites for a Hazy NEIPA?
by Box of Rocks on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 with 12 posts so far
Two questions:1) What is your favorite yeast for a Hazy NEIPA?2) What is your favorite hop combination, and how do you add them? Am fine-tuning my hazy recipe, and would welcome your thoughts, …

Lager beer priming
by Mastoras007 on Sat, 22 Jun 2024 with 9 posts so far
Hello everyone.I’m now on cold crash step on my lager, after that i will bottle some part of beer and rest of it keg.What i need to do for bottle? After priming with dextrose what temperature i …