Hit your target gravity, Scottish Ale recipe, and more

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Membership Options   Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, We dug deep in the archives for this week's recipes: Clermont Scottish Ale recipe [Free] and Nitro Stonefruit Sour recipe [Digital and Plus Members]. Learn how to carbonate your kegged beer naturally in Spunding 101 [BYO+ video]. Three brewers who won medals at the Great American Beer Festival give us the inside scoop [Digital and Plus Members] on winning homebrew competitions. Does having two airlock blowouts during the first 12 hours of fermenting mean that the batch is bad? Mr. Wizard answers [Digital and Plus Members].  Here's how to consistently hit your target gravity [Free], and Mr. Wizard explains diluting high gravity beer [Free]. In projects, we tackle a whirpool port install [Free] and keg polisher [Digital and Plus Members]. Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher For BYO+ and Nano+ Members Only  Brew even better with BYO+ Membership Become a BYO+ Member to access the new BYO+ Video Series, one on-demand workshop, 1000s of how-to articles and tested recipes, and more! Watch with BYO+ Membership Video Spunding 101 You can carbonate your kegged beer naturally using spunding. Learn how the calculations, equipment, and best practices for this technique with Brew Your Own Magazine's Technical Editor Ashton Lewis. Watch Now Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Clermont Scottish Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.037  FG = 1.008 IBU = 23  SRM = 12  ABV = 3.8% Ingredients 2 lbs. (0.91 kg) Pilsner malt 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) British pale ale malt 1 lb. (0.45 kg) flaked wheat   Read more Article Hit Your Target Gravity When your neighborhood pub stops serving your favorite English bitter, what can you do? Make your own, of course. Homebrewers thrive on the challenge of recreating the round malts and bracing hops of popular beer styles. Armed with a hydrometer, experienced homebrewers can construct a beer from the ground up, starting with specific gravity. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Diluting High Gravity Beer Q I am one week away from tasting my first homebrew — an amber ale. Prior to brewing I read a couple of different "instructions" on how to brew. The one I followed said that after transferring to a secondary fermenter, I should top up with water to about four inches from the top of the carboy, which I did. It was probably a gallon (4 L) of water. While taking hydrometer readings before bottling (1.007 FG) I tasted the sample and it was very light bodied, like a Budweiser, even though it had a nice amber color. Is this because I added more water? Do I need to add this additional water to the secondary fermenter? A I must confess, this is one homebrewing practice I have never come across. What you are describing is, however, practiced by almost every large commercial brewery in the world and is called high-gravity brewing (HGB). Read More Project Whirpool Port Install During a brew day several years ago, I was lamenting the extremely sluggish process of draining my boil kettle into my fermenters. I have a counterflow chiller, but in order to get pitchable-temperature wort into the fermenter, I had to run the wort at just a trickle even while my chilling water was at full bore. As one familiar with Newton's Law of Cooling, I realized also how much water I was wasting; heat transfers more quickly when the temperature gradient is steeper.  Read More For Digital and Plus Members Only  Start your Digital Membership Free Trial Digital Members get access to thousands of recipes, all new BYO issues and more. Try membership risk free for 14 days.*! Try Digital Membership, Free!* Recipe Nitro Stonefruit Sour (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.044 FG = 1.011 SRM = 3 IBU = 6 ABV = 4.3%   Ingredients 9 lbs. (4.1 kg) Dingemans Pilsen malt 2 lbs. (0.91 kg) flaked oats 1 vanilla bean (day 5)   Read more Article Winning Competitions: Tips from the Pros Three brewers who won medals at the Great American Beer Festival give us the inside scoop to competing in—and winning—homebrew competitions. . Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Airlock Blowout Q. Does having two airlock blowouts during the first 12 hours of fermenting mean that I have a bad batch? Read More Project Keg Polisher: Give your kegs a shine So the first question that may be asked is "Why?" For me it came after I successfully built an effective keg washer and had nice clean kegs on the inside but that were scuffed, scratched, dented, and oxidized on the outside. And not that it's necessarily an issue but we all know, a scratched and oxidized stainless surface is harder, if not impossible, to sanitize. Not that the outsides need to be sanitized . . . but it surely can't hurt and they certainly look nicer. Read More *BYO+ and Nano+ Membership Terms and Conditions:  You will be enrolled in the auto-renewal program, and your membership will renew at the prevailing rates at the time. Additional terms and conditions apply, see individual product pages for details.  *Free Trial Terms and Conditions: For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details. Copyright © 2022 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Brew Your Own Our mailing address is: Brew Your Own 5515 Main St Manchester Center, VT 05255 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? 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