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Hello guys, I've been making starters for liquid yeast for years. To be honest I never pitched liquid yeast without starter before. But I'm getting lazy, so I have few question. 1. Why does lager beer need higher pitching rate? OK, it ferments at colder temp. But didn't the lager yeast cells...

Hey guys, I digged some young hop plants one and a half month ago. They grow nicely, some of them are more than a meter high by now. Unfortunately they have been attacked by something. Could you please help me to identify this? Thanks!

Hi guys, I ordered some cyro tubes from here: http://www.brouwland.com/en/ I expected them to attach a detailed manual, but there were only a sheet describing the steps how to add yeasts to the tube and remove the excess preservative fluid with a sterile pipette. That's OK, but can I...

I've read somewhere, that yeast should be pitched at fermenting temperature. In practice pitching yeast at room temperature and bringing the fermenter down to the (colder) cellar is very much a no no. Or temperature changes should be done gradually. On the other hand I often read that...

Hey everyone, First of all there is nothing wrong with my wife. She is really supportive, I only want to keep her like that.:) I usually start AG brewing in the late afternoon/evening. So I often finish way after midnight. I have to admit that despite all my efforts cleaning everything up...

In some recipes the fermentation temperature is supposed to be kept as close as possible. Is that ambient temperature or temperature in the fermenter? Or depends on the recipe?:) Thanks!

Hello everyone, My father in law wants to cut off few row of old grapevine plans on his land. He offered me to use vine trellis system for growing hops. What do you think, is it a bad idea? It's around 1.6-1.8m height (5.5-6 feet) and pretty long like 30-40m. Is it possible to grow hops...

Hey guys, Just two questions. I found an old pc fan I can power with my old TT scale train power supply. Housing and everything else is done as well. Now I have to glue the magnet on the fan and buy that small doodad that spins around. What is the direction of the magnet's polarities...

Hi guys, Normally my brewhouse efficiency is around 80% with barley malts. Last time I brewed wheat beer and it dropped down to 60%. Since I still have no rice hulls avaliable, I couldn't use it. Do you think that only by using rice hulls would bring the efficiency up a lot? Something...

Hi guys, I found an older book written by Wolfgang Vogel. It mentions an easy way to water softening by adding a certain amount of CaO to hard water. It precipitates the the "hard part" of the water at the bottom of the bucket. After that you only need to siphon the soft water off the hard...

Hi guys, I have a food chemists friend, who offered me help as well as some time in his lab. I'd like to do some beer related measurements, just for fun and to see how it works. Could you please give links or any info how do these measurements exactly? If you can recommend related...

Hello guys, I use Chemipro Oxi no rinse sanitizer to sanitize my equpiment and bottles. It works well, except it leaves limestone like white spots on the surface. My supplier told me that this is a cosmetical problem only, but still... ...you know, I'm a little anixous abot filling bottles...

Hello everyone, What if I brew an English ale with German pale ale malts? No, I'm not talking about the brewing diplomacy... I have only German malts avaliable in the local hombrew store. I substitued Belgian and English malts recommended by the recipes with Weyerman (German) malts. Does...

Hi guys, My father in law has a small farm in the countryside. The area is known about it's wine, there are several vineyards around. I'd like to plant few rhizomes here next year. Can I assume that hops will grow well under the same conditions that grapevines need? Thanks.

Hi, Unfortunately beverage coolers are terribly expensive here (3x the US price). I can buy a huge stainless steel pots or 3 second hand 13 gallons keg for this price. Now I do the mashing in a 4.5 gallon stainless steel pot on the stove and lauter in a fermentation vessel with false bottom...

Hi guys, For some reason rice hulls aren't avaliable from local homebrew shops. Fortunately I found two companies processing rice in my country. What do you think if I buy some rice hulls directly from them? Is it ready to brew? As much as I know the rice cleaning happens before removing...

Hello everyone, Few weeks ago I tasted my second AG brew and it was beer like, but I wasn't satisfied at all. The taste was too bitter. It's a wheat beer and it tastes as bitter as a pilsner urquell. Not like a good pilsner, in the back part of my tounge, I feel bitterness everywhere in my...

Hello everyone, Unfortunately I have only a 5 gallon pot at the moment. This lets me to boil 4 gallon (after boil) beer. But I really miss that one gallon. I can increase the amount the mash. Obviously the resulting wort would be more than 5 gallon after lautering, so I can't boil it at...

Hello everyone, First time poster, easy on me please!:) Reading the boilover part of the Palmer book. Am I supposed to watch boilovers at all grain brewing? Sorry about the lamish question, but the book writes about this at the extract brewing, and it isn't evident... Thanks!