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Things I learned yesterday:

I need a bigger mash tun. My 5 gallon cooler is too small.

What I need advice on:
I'm glad I took the advice of the lads from More Beer and had DME on hand to add to the wort. This my second all grain and I again came up short on my OG numbers. I was at 30 when I was supposed to hit 65. I added DME and brought it up to 60.

What am I not doing?

It looks like the Sierra's are jumping right into a hot spring.  It's been awesome the past week, high 70's to high 80's, just awesome!  So I've had some concrete border blocks laying around for a while and with the weather being so nice. I finally got around to tearing out the old press board and wood planters I built when I first started my hop garden several years back.  Although the 2 X 8 X 10's I used for the sides are still usable, the end pieces of press board I had lying around were…

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So I'm curious to see who's going to be planting some rhizomes this year!  If you're planting rhizomes this year we'd love to see pictures as they progress.  Last year I ended up planting two just for fun, and the next thing I knew they were 15 feet tall and not slowing down.  Any tips/tricks on what worked and what didn't are always fun to share also...here's a picture of some of the rhizomes growing outside of our MoreFlavor! Concord, CA Showroom!…

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Ended up entering 10 beers this year with MoreBeer's very own Ryan Barto.  Although almost all of the equipment is his, all the skill, recipes, etc are obviously mine (unless they do poorly...).  Just kidding RB!  Hoping to get back some good scores and see a few of these in Seattle, but I suppose only time will tell now!

We can all agree that we are never going to be able to brew every beer recipe that could be conceived, but that doesn't mean we can't try.  Recently Joe and I (Sean) tried an all Zythos pale ale.  Zythos is a new hop blend produced by HopUnion.  It has some citrus qualities with a decent AA%.  We wanted to find out the characteristics of this hop by itself so we brewed a recipe of:

• 6# Light DME (DME10D)
• .5# Carapils (GR450)
• 1oz Zythos @ 60 min
• 1oz…

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I have brewed four full boils over the past three months and have noticed a problem. I start with 6 gallons of water, but I have repeatedly ended up with about 4 - 4 1/2 gallons of beer.   What (if any) is the downside of topping off the beer in the carboy with water to reach 5 gallons?

Hello homebrew crew! We want to congratulate our customer Jason C. for winning the Social Prize Sweepstakes for a $500 gift certificate to MoreBeer!. We also want to thank everyone that participated in the promotion in support of our company. We appreciate all the love and hope to have more sweepstakes like this going forward. Cheers!

Last week or own Chris Graham reversed roles with Justin at the Brewing Network and interviewed him in a video that will be released on our 1rst of the month email newsletter. Chris walks you through the international headquarters (Justin's house) as they talk about the history of the BN, the staff, a studio room tour, and more.  Of course we also talk to him about their long time use of a MoreBeer! BrewSculpture (which feeds their striperator with beer).  Overall a very funny and…

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looking for a cloned recipe for eichbaum beer, or a store close too/in massachusetts

i am looking to clone this german pilsner/lager beer

is there anyone outthere that can help me please?

thank you