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I understand the importance of the hydrometer and of course I use mine as its a great tool. I usually follow the rule to take three consecuitive hydrometer readings before bottiling but is it fool proof? Like if the fermentation is almost done and its going very slowly then it may take more...

Something happened to me months ago and i bet you already guessed it haha. Bottle bombs. Or i should say bomb. I had 1 bottle i opened up to taste and it just sprayed everywhere, iv never seen anythin like it. It was just under so much pressure. I was doing an experiment with 1 gallon beer and...

Hello , I searched for similar forums but had no luck finding one. Anyways Im wondering if Im fermenting in a small carboy or fermenter, say a 1 gal or 2 gallon size, would that mean it doesnt take as long for the yeast to condition and clean up the beer ? Im talking about after the...

Hey im shane keskeny, iv been using this website over the last couple years and I used to be able to search for keywords by thread. So if i wanted to find all threads with fermenter conditioning in them i could do that. but I longer see the option for it. The only option i found was the top left...

Iv noticed there are alot of variations and different ways to go about boiling wort and i thought you could share your advice and techniques here. i have a simple recipe and i would like to do it right my first time. So far this is how i plan on doing it. It is for a 4.5 liter batch...

Okay so iv been talking to some ppl about my recipe im doing and some are saying to add more grains and more malt because they think i need more to achieve a 5% alcohol beer. i feel like im doing the calculation right so maybe we can discuss if i fudged up and what is the proper way to figure...

Hello I am a fellow fermentationist and I am having a brewing dilemma. The other day I was in my cupboards and noticed that I had a box of granola bars and they expire this month, I looked at the ingredients and noticed Barley malt extract, also it contains whole grain rolled oats and other...

Hello everybody, I am a fellow home brewer and have been enjoying my time fermenting many things, Iv made wine and beers and even meads. I enjoy it so much I try to absorb relevant information everywhere I can and I get alot of beer info from James spencers podcast Basic Brewing radio/video...

Hey everyone, So I just finished bottling like 60 beers of my coopers Draught. I came upstairs to my computer and I looked on the coopers website and was suprised to find out I brewed a LAGER! I had no idea, the can simply says coopers draught, and the ladie in the store told me she had no...

How do you know when to add an airlock to your fermenter? I have heard different things about this before and honestly iv been just kinda been winging it for now. But I did just make a big expensive batch of clover honey mead and now I feel I Should have some more information on how to do...

i found this video awhile ago and found it interesting. its good to see things from another point of view. this video features bannana brewing in africa! i find it cool how relaxed they are with their procedures and their brewing beer which is generally lower alcohol, which means it would...

hey i have recently bottled my 2nd batch of beer , but unfortunatly it has a slight metal taste to it. iv been reading all the other posts about what causes it and iv narrowed it down to a couple things, but still need some clarification. i have an aluminum pot but it has been boiled atleast 10...

iv been interested in adding chocolate to my beer ever since iv heard of it being done. but im still unsure of how ppl are doing it, so what is the best way to infuse chocolate in beer? Can i just add powdered dark chocolate at bottling time when im carbonating?

hey there, so Iv successfully brewed my first pre hopped extract ale beer and they turned out better than expected! my roomates also agreed. However this batch fermented at high temperatures around 80F. So this batch I have going now i put in the basement so it should be around 65-70F, im hoping...

so regarding Bentonite, I recently used some in my 6 gallon batch of Welchs frozen grape concentrate and also in a 1 gallon minute maid berry concentrate. I couldnt believe the difference it made in adding it into these two batches. these batches have been going for almost 2 weeks and the berry...

Hey everyone so I am finally going to make some beer! But I'm not completely sure how to go about it. I've made wine and have been soon much reading about beer, but I'm still unsure of some things. I bought a beer mix in a can and spray malt and dextrose and I'm wondering how to properly...

so iv heard these two additives work best in combination, is there truth to this? From my underdtanding, it sounds like its important to be using ATLEAST the pot meta to protect the wine but i have some wines that i have no intentions of backsweetining so is the pot sorbate really nesscecary?

Im looking for some starsan within canada but i am having no luck so far. its almost like its sold exclusivley in the united states. does anyone know where to find some within canada i live in southern ontario in the london and st thomas area.

hey beer lovers. im looking for a great beer book as i have no beer books yet. I am new to the alcohol making scene and i have made some wine succesfully. and have one wine book so far. but now i would like a good beer book! even though im new to this stuff iv been researching alot and...

I have tried using some pottasium meta in a 5 gal plastic bucket, i had all my plastic equipment and some metal stir sticks also. I checked on my equipment the one day and i noticed the metal was rusting or being eaten my the k meta.. There was a brown-red color rubbing off the metal when i...