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So I am brewing a Kolsch soon, and this will be the first time I've used Brewer's Friend, as well as the first time I've tried to measure pH and add brewing salts. Should I be trying to hit a pH of 5.4 or 5.2? I know it's all "close enough", but most threads I've seen on the homebrew forums try...

I brewed a cream ale this past sunday and pitched a dry packet of S-05 directly onto the wort per the package instructions. I have my primary in an insulated son of fermentation chiller with an Inkbird controller probe taped to my primary bucket and a Fermwrap heating pad around my bucket. I'm...

Hello everyone, I have been challenged by a coworker to try to mimic a gooseberry pie beer. I have 7 lbs of freshly picked gooseberries in my freezer right now and after researching on HBT and Northern Brewer, I have come up with something that I think will turn out good. I need help picking out...

Hello everyone, I searched the forums and came up with goose-eggs. A coworker of mine recently gave me 7 lbs of gooseberrys and has challenged me to make an alcoholic beverage out of it. I didn't think gooseberrys would work well in a beer, but I feel a mead would have a nice sweetness that...

Hey everyone, so I am brewing a nice summer peach beer. I added 1 lb of peach puree during flame out, and I am planning on adding more peach during secondary. I bought a 3 lb can of peach puree from the LHBS, and poured what was left into a sanitized tupperware container then put it in the...

I opened up my fermenter to keg this bad boy when I saw this....is this an infection?

I have been researching how to wash and reuse yeast lately. I asked a friend about it and he mentioned that if I reuse that yeast I need to have a higher OG or a darker beer. I know this is true for re-using the yeast cake on bottom of primary, but is this true for washed yeast? I was thinking...

I am in the process of researching how to get the most efficiency out of my yeast. I have already read the yeast washing illustrated thread and now I am trying to research how to create a yeast starter. I have already read the yeast starter wiki page, but I still have one question. So when I...

Hello everyone, So I am wanting to create a dusseldorf altbier ale for October and I found this recipe in another thread. Dusseldorf Altbier 8 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 70.4 % 2 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 17.6 % 13.0 oz Aromatic Malt (26.0 SRM) Grain 7.1 % 7.0 oz...

Hi everyone, I recently upgraded my account to premium due to the awesomeness of this website and the help that I have received from total strangers online. Since I have upgraded my account, I feel like I have an obligation to help brewers newer than myself with things that I have tried that...

Hey everyone, I had my first AG brewday yesterday and when I moved my chilled wort to the primary bucket there was a lot of foam on top. I went ahead and pitched my yeast on top of that thinking the foam will settle, but I wake up this AM and my fermenter is quiet as a graveyard. I know to wait...

So just a little bit about what I'm trying to make, I want a red rye pale ale. I feel that I may have too much carared, but beersmith "says" that this ratio will make a color that I want with a gravity and ibu that I am happy with. Please tear this apart. :mug: Grains: American Pale Ale - 3...

So I have been reading these forums for a few weeks now and the next and probably the most important thing that I need to do whenever I finish moving is to find some way to maintain fermentation temperature. Currently I have my beer fermenting in my closet with is ~ 75-78 F using my metal...

I am a new brewer (have a honey brown ale kit conditioning and a summer ale kit fermenting at the moment), but one thing that I think would be extremely, EXTREMELY fun is entering a beer that I created into a competition and meeting all the other brewers, seeing their beer, etc. So, I was...

So I bottled my first 5 gallon batch today (honey brown ale) and brewed my second kit ever (summer ale), and boy did I learn a lot! :D I thought I'd post this so any other new people can read and learn from this so they don't make the same mistakes I did. I don't have a wort cooler, so I was...

Hello everyone, I am new to HBT and beer brewing in general and I am going to be bottling my first batch ever tomorrow and I was wondering what the best way to clean my bucket is? I was just going to wash it out with soap and water and a sponge since I don't have any other cleaning supplies. Any...