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So, here's the thing: I'm in a personal crisis here. All my life, while using conversion tables, I thought that "g/100g" was the same as ºPlato, while "g/100ml" was another way of saying ºBalling. But recently, while looking deeper on the subject as a matter of personal curiosity, I have...

I just bought 6 rhyzomes, but I won't be able to plant them in my farm at least until mid-august (my farm is far from here, and i'm travelling to canada next week). how can I keep them fresh during the meantime? should I pre-plant them in small vases? roll them in newspaper? soak them in water...

ok, here's the thing: tuesday I made a 85 liters (roughly 22,5 gal) Tripel batch which I split in 5 carboys. the idea was to test yeast profiles, so I made the beer with only pilsener malt, 12% sugar, coriander and bittering hops, aiming at 1082 OG. Each carboy received a different yeast (after...

ok, i'm making my own counterflow chiller, folowing this design: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_make_a_Counter_Flow_Chiller everything is set, except for the rubber hose... i'm having trouble finding a 5/8'' one. I found a 1/2'', though, and although it's smaller in...

So, i'm re-building/upgrading all my equipment and there is a pretty basic question I never actually got a decent answer. What's the ups and downs of a mash/lauter tun+boil kettle system versus a mash/boil kettle +lauter tun? This seem really silly, but let me develop it a bit. In most...

Ok, i'm developing my "2.0" eco-friendly equipment, so I decided to retire my old immersion chiller and go for a plate one. However, before I commit myself to the 200 dollars + shipping + import taxes (I live in Brazil) there are still some things I don't quite understand about the toy. 1) do...

Straigh to the pint: I bottled an Imperial IPA about a month ago with the exact same amount os sugar I use to prime all of my beers (8g/l). Problem: it has not carbonated at all. The problem is not the measurement of sugar, has I use a lab pipette as precise as tenths of mililiter. It's not the...

ok, here's the deal. every year me and my friends go to a house on the beach in easter. It's hot, it's sunny, and now I want it to be beer-perfect, so next week i'm gonna brew a 8-gallon batch of what will be the "official 2010 easter beer". It has to be light to medium body, somewhat...

people, i'm planning on brewing a belgian dubbel for a homebrew contest. Problem is, we don't have any white labs or wyeast yeasts commercially available here in brazil (liquid yeasts are still lacking on sanitary license), so my only options are: 1) use a dry yeast from fermentis (s-33 or...

when we al started learning stuff about beer, someone said that that the differences beetween lagers and ales was that in lagers there was bottom fermentation - that is, instead of the traditional krausen, there would be some kind of "underwort krausen". but the thing is: from what i've seen...

People, I started with cornelius kegs just a while ago. I remember listening a lot of people talking about huge foam problems, but I never gave that much attention until I got my own cornys and started suffering from this issue. Now, I looked in a lot of topics about this subject, but in a...

My beloved people, I just did a lager beer yesterday (a munich dunkel), but instead of pitching the yeast right after the cooling, i just left it alone, in 2 (totally sanitized) vessels - one in my ordinary refrigerator (filled with food and stuff with approximately 6ºC/43ºF) and the small...

I was, just now, brewing a Hefeweizen, when the gas ran out - right in the middle of the boil. and i wont be able to get more until monday morning... and because of my work, I won't be resuming the process until 11:30 am. So, am I completely ****ed? as anything like this ever happened to you?

People, i'm going for a batch of my first witbier in the next few days, but I have a doubt. In some recipes, I have seen only a base-malt+unmalted wheat, in a base of 50/50, but something sounds fishy over that - as unmalted wheat, for what I remember, don't contribute with any sugars. A few...

folks, I've been invited as a guest speaker in a design congress, and because of my "other interests" as a homebrewer, I decided to offer a workshop on beer production and beer culture, featuring a live brew! Problem is: the workshop would be held on the wendsday, and the congress closing...

ok, so I made my first all-grain batch of barley wine last saturday. Problem is, I completely forgot that I would be going on a travel 6 days later. =p So these are the facts... I have divided this batch in 3 yeasts (S-04, S-05 and T-58) and by today I still have some action in all of them -...