The process of heating the wort to 100C or higher causing the wort to boil.
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Extract late with a full boil?
If you can do a full wort boil with extracts is it still beneficial to be adding extract late to avoid color changes and the like?
What would happen to hop utilization with extract late in a full ...
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Effects of different boil intensities
What are the effects of having a super rapid crazy boil vs. a very slow, slightly rolling boil, and the different stages in between? If you're boiling 6 gallons on an electric stove or trying to do ...
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First All Grain Batch / LOW Efficiency
Yesterday I went down to my homebrew retailer, planning on buying a simple screen/valve assembly for a cooler. No go. He didn't have any of THOSE left, however he did have an assembly to use an ...
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Using hops after fermentation
Let's say you have already put your beer into your fermenter and you decide its taste is not hoppy enough. So you start out to add some more hops into it. One way to dry hop, but I will not expand ...
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How can you tell if a propane burner is large enough for boil?
Any idea on what BTU, PSI, etc. would be acceptable for 5 gallon boils? I've been looking around at turkey fryer's but I don't know if they'll pump out enough heat. Recommendations?
PS: I'm trying to ...
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Small Space & Apartment Brewing: Boiling
Given the limited space of an apartment, what tips do you have for the boil?
Do not consider budget to be a factor.
This is the fourth question in a series of discussions about small-space brewing. ...
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Sanitation & Dry Hopping
Is there any risk of wort infection by not sanitizing hops before dry hopping?
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Propane tank usage in winter time
Today is 14F here in the northern suburbs of MA. In the winter time it can be tough to brew outside if you are a propane cooker brewer such as myself.
When the tank is going full bore it tends to ...
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Partial vs. Full Voume Wort Boil
The starting postion for most new extract brewers is to use a partial boil set up. Defined as using a pot smaller than the intended batch size, all the ingredients are boiled in a smaller volume. ...
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Cocoa Nibs for Chocolate Flavorings
What is the best way to use cocoa nibs?
Do you crush them, crack them leave them whole?
Steep and remove pre-boil, leave in boil, add at flameout?
Add them only during secondary? How long?
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First Wort Hopping (or FWH)
What is First Wort Hopping (FWH) and how best can it be replicated in extract brewing?
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Where do you brew?
This Saturday (1/2/09) will be my very first time brewing and I am considering my options as far as location.
I have seen some folks boiling their wort outside on a gas grill and the smiling people ...
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Amount of Water to Boil for Wort
If I'm making a 5 gallon batch of beer, how much water should I use for my wort? Papazian's book says to use 1.5g and add it to 3.5g of room temperature water already in the carboy. I see how this ...
