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Start off waking up a little late, no biggy. Discover my old faithful scale is suddenly off by about 5% at 100grams, 20% at 1kg, 30% at 2 kg....kinda annoying, but can be corrected on the fly with time. Cordless drill breaks. Have to mill 6kg of grain by hand. Mash in pot miss temp by 6...

Amazing. While cleaning out the "vat room" at work to add 2 more storage units I found a 10kg box of Safale S-04. It had expired by 3 months, but has been in the fridge unit with the kegs and beer, and sealed the entire time. I expect its still fine to use, so I asked the brew master if...

Edited away for now ;) Ill keep you updated when I find out the legality of what I hope to be doing. Can lock, delete.

So had a late night brewing session on friday night. Made my orange hefe style beer, and my IPA(really its an apa). Anyway so I brew both batchs up, extract so its fast, the IPA cools while I boil the Hefe. Pitch the yeast, stick em both in my nice cool closet to ferment just kinda check every...

I know this is usually only added to Wine to clear it. But are there any drawbacks to adding this to beer to remove pectins from added, possilby boiled fruit or jam?

Probably already posted at some point but if not. Wow. http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/index.html

So ive got a 6 gallon batch of wheat beer,But I was planning to make it an Apicot wit until a few days back, im a little concerned about the dried apricots and so2 etc etc. So ive decided im going to ferment it for 2 weeks, and then transfer a little under half of it into a small fermenting...

Once again Ive been shafted by the not so local homebrew store. The only place I can get extract from, the other side of the country, at great personal cost, and having to wait 1-2 weeks for delivery have decided to JUST send me the extract I ordered and nothing else.... The specialty...

This is somewhat of a beer related rant. The market in Norway is flooded with Pilsner. You cant get anything but that in 90% of bars, and even when you goto the import bottles in the fridge there its Pilsners from other places. Now that wouldnt be so bad except for the quality of it. The...

So I have a small dilema. I dont have as much DME as I thought, im missing about 2 pounds for the recipe I had planned, but hoping not to "have" to get anymore as it takes over a week to get it, and I really need to get this started tomorrow. Question, if I steep crystal malts and add...

Hi, was planning to make an Apricot wheat last weekend, fortunatly my grain "didnt" arrive as planned ;) Problem is that I was planning on using some preserved Apricots (semi dried) rehydrating them, bledning them, heating them, then adding to the fermenter. I read in forums a few threads...

Trying to think of a catchy brand name for my only drunk at home beer, silly? yes I just want to start making some lables and I cant think of anything catchy, and I constantly see fantasic names for beers offered up in threads here. So what have we got to work with? Im a New Zealander...

Normally for sanitation I use a little bleach, but whenever I order from a specific supplyier here in Norway I also get a few packs of the so called cleaner and disinfector that that recommend for bottles, fermenters, equipment. thing is Ive NEVER actually known what this is with relation to...

Head of the Microbrewery where I worked just gave me a call, apparently his 4th Kid arrived last night so he cant goto the brewery tonight to give a guided tour and run down of the beer and beer making process with a tasting. The people coming cant be contacted to cancel, so he calls me and...

Hi, So as of this point Ive only ever done extracts, and steeps. Never had to mash anything, so I wanted a couple of pointers. I want to do the popcorn beer. I REALLY want to do the popcorn beer. So I was thinking of using the Stovetop mash technique by DeathBrewer. But I am unsure...

Ordered some grains from my usual supplier a few days ago, just clicked the usual things, etc etc. Happened to read the order confirmation while looking for the tracking number and noticed: 1 x Special-B 400 EBC I ordered the special b, but apparently failed to notice the "400 EBC"...

I have alot of left over light DME that has been laying around just a "little" too long. So Ive figured out im going to do this to it. Im basically going for some kind of Fruity dark ale, with not too much bitterness and sublt hop aroma. That in mind im a Little worried about the amount of...

Long story short, broke tap on pot, ended up dumping entire boil minus a little hop sludge into fermenter, this included the most nasty cold break i've seen in 3 years of brewing. Ive never used Gelatin before, Im gonna have to this time I think. So got it sitting next to me, high krauzen...

Hey, Not new to brewing, but new to dry hopping. I had in the past used tabs to attempt to dry hop some brews, with limited success and in an attempt to make it a little cheaper. But as they failed I've now just properly dry hopped (1oz of cent tabs on Wednsday) my first batch. I was...

Just made myself an IPA frankenbeer type of thing brew this afternoon from some bits and bobs I had laying around. 22 leters of wort from a partial boil, 50% Light dme, 50% amber dme wort which had 100 grams of cascade to start it off, 25 grams of centennial at 30 and 25g of saazer at 15, and...