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I have a batch sitting here in my hallway for maybe 6 months aging out (bulk again in carboy). I never racked it off the yeast or anything like that. It's probably my 15th batch. This one now looks like there might be a slight pelicle forming on the top. Anyone ever seen this before? It is...

I use my keggerator to cold crash and I hate lifting a glass carboy in and out of the chest freezer. I'm worried the carboy handle will stress fracture the carboy and leaning over the collar is a pain. Also space. Where I have lived for the last two years doesn't have the best lay out for...

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cleaning day

Foreman plumber and aspiring firefighter

Thanks. Any other suggestions on what I can do with all the rest? A hop bomb? Would moving the .5oz additions to 1oz completely unbalance the beer?

Today I picked up: 8lbs 2-row 2lbs pale malt (says toasted. Does that mean I actually toast it in the oven?) .5 lbs crystal 60L .5 lbs wheat flakes I also got a pack of us-05 and 2 oz of simco and 2 oz amerillo. In the fridge I have some mt hood, cascade, chinook, and centennial. Also have...

Btw the fermentation bubbled up like crazy unlike a typical batch

Made a 5 gallon batch with 2 lbs dextrose and 2 lbs brown sugar. My og reading seemed very low and I looked at the bottom of carboy and lots if undos solved sugar. Anyone have a rough idea what og might be or final abv would be if it ferments out like a typical batch? It seems people have used...

Thought I could dry out a sanitized glass carboy by balancing it upside down on the counter (at that point in my life I feared the foam). Knocked it over and it dominoed into my yeast starter and spilt it over my hot oven element. Just caught the carboy before it shattered. Had to used a...

Kegged a hef for my lady love, kegged some apfelwine, made 5 gal regular apfelwine, made 5 gal apfelwine with 2 lbs dextrose and 2 lbs brown sugar.

Clean it to make swmbo happy and just let the patina come back over time. Hide the brasso

.....or when you get into your second litre of apfelwine and say out loud, by yourself, "man, i love apfelwine"....and realize you spend a fantastic amount of time HBT

+1 on the patina

+1 on patina