abv

Hey all, I brewed Northern Brewer’s Pliny the Elder extract clone yesterday and am wondering if i misunderstood the instructions. They recommend making a 6 gal wort to account for krausen and hop absorption loss, but my OG ended up being 1.050 instead of the target 1.070! The ratio of water to...

I would like some insight from those smarter than me, I've been using Redstar Premier Blanc for the last 4-5 years using other yeasts very rarely. I decided to actually look up the specs on Premier Blanc and this is what I found: Species: Wine Fermentation Temp Range (°F) : 59-86 Apparent...

Hey everyone, I brewed a block party summer ale from northern brewing and I don’t think I boiled the wort hard enough but it’s been fermenting for 2 weeks and one week was colder temperatures so I got a heat pad to make it around 70F and it’s been at that for a week under a blanket for...

What is the best way to go about producing a 4% ABV batch of a 6.5% ABV beer? I thought about adding 3 gallons water to a 5 gallon batch of 6.5% to produce 4% ABV but I worry about diluting the taste in the process. Anyone have any ideas on the subject?

Hi there brewers. I made a little excel dashboard that shows charts and graphs of key info for the BJCP 2015 beer styles, including comparisons for average values over all the styles. Others have probably done similar things, but I couldn't find them on HBT. I was unable to post the spreadsheet...

Hey Everyone, I've been having difficulty with BeerSmith lately. My OG is coming out way lower than what BeerSmith says it should be. I'm going to do some research over the weekend to figure out if it's a setting in BeerSmith or if it is my brewing. Either way, I brewed a NEIPA yesterday...

Somehow, in what I thought was a temp controlled fridge, a batch of beer mostly froze in the keg during carbonation. I didn't learn this until after the 11th bottle because the keg wasn't giving up anymore liquid. Had I reason to check the keg first I think the beer would have been fine if I let...

Hi, I've been searching online forums to find a good answer for this question: I know how to calculate ABV in a routine beer batch. What I can't figure out is what to do with my math if I add additional sugar (honey, agave, etc.) when I transfer to the secondary. If I start at 1.055 and then...

So last week I brewed my first batch of light ale and according to the recipe that I used, the original gravity was supposed to be around 1.034 or so but when I took the reading, I got about 1.071. Does this just mean the beer will have a higher ABV or is it still depending on how much yeast I...

Just curious if the forum allows the attachment of small files or not. I made a very simple program for determining the ABV using hyrdrometer readings. I'm not a programmer, so it's very simple and basic. I made it based on the ABV math found in my Coopers instructions. I'm new to brewing...

I have a few recipes that I will certainly keep around all year. I would like to keep all the flavor, body, and aroma goodness but reduce the ABV% when I brew these in the summer time. Do I add water to the wort? Do I reduce the fermentables by reducing the base malt in the grain bill...