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I recently purchased a freezer and ranco for fermentation and I've noticed mold growing on the inside lids of my plastic bucket fermenters. This never happened when I used a swamp cooler, but I suppose the close warm quarters of the freezer is a different climate. I have a renewable desiccant...

Wanted to share my experience. Decided to make a pecan brown and instead of using fresh pecans (wanted to avoid the oils), I used an extract. I bought a small 4 oz bottle and poured in an ounce of flavoring right before bottling. Two months after bottling and the beer is absolutely god-awful...

Thinking about doing an Irish Red and would like some opinions. Normally I mash an hour @ 155 F for a medium body and use S04 yeast. Trying to find a use for a Windsor Cake I will be racking off next weekend, so I'm thinking of pitching the Irish Red on the cake, but I'd like to compensate for...

I've looked around at many English IPA recipes and have noticed that not many call for dry-hopping. Most of the time, the schedule looks like 60, 15, and 5 minute boils. I have a English IPA that has been in the primary for three weeks and I was thinking about racking it to a secondary...

I'm making plans to go All-Grain in the near future. After reading many posts here about choices, I've decided to buy a Bayou Classic SP-10. None of the brick and mortar stores such as Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware carry Bayou Classic locally, so I am stuck buying online. Since I...

I'm planning on brewing a Blackberry American Wheat very soon and I was wondering about using Windsor yeast to emphasize the sweetness of the fruit and allow the malt to stand up against the Amarillo hops. From the searches I've done, most here prefer the Chico Ale yeast because of the clean...

The reason I ask is if it is so important, why aren't primary fermentation/bottling buckets also made out of the material? Seems like it would be counterproductive to primary for two weeks in a food grade poly bucket and then transfer to a PET bottle for secondary. I wonder if PET is really a...

Anyone here cold crash their IPAs? I've not done this to any of my beers yet, but my wife is in Greece for 10 days and the refrigerator has enough space to fit a carboy in it right now. I have an Imperial IPA ready to bottle and I thought I might clear it up a bit beforehand. I am wondering...

I've been lurking and using the search feature a bunch, but hello from the Charlotte area. Been brewing for about six months. My favs are American IPAs. Just can't get enough of them.:mug:

Hello, Long time lurker with a question. I've been brewing for about six months, so I'm still new at this game, but I'm curious as to why brewers wash old yeast. Wouldn't it be better to take fresh yeast from an already sterile White Labs vial, make a huge starter, and then split them into...