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My second year cascade plant is acting a little strange. It's about 20' tall and there are quite a few cones but they are small, maybe 1/2 the size of the centennials next to it. They do have lots of lupulin and smell great. The odd thing is it seems the cones have stopped growing and it's...

I brewed up Jamil's Belgian Specialty ale (Orval-ish clone) from BCS a few weeks ago. Grain bill was the same (which included 1lb of table sugar) but I used Wyeast's PC 3739 Flanders Golden ale yeast instead of 3522. I just took an gravity reading as I was going to transfer to secondary and...

I have a CAP ready to be moved from primary to seconday for lagering. Can I just rack to a keg, prime with corn sugar, wait a couple of weeks for it to carb up at 70F and then start the lagering process? My thinking is this would limit the exposure to O2 (only having to transfer once from...

I brewed the CYBI Mission Street pale ale 2 weeks ago and wanted to try my hand at build a water profile from scratch and the beer is phenolic in both taste and aroma. Its at the FG and I've moved to secondary for dry hopping. I know I screwed up the adjustments after doing more research...

I have a clone of Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale that I’ve dry hopped with 3oz of hops. Bottling should be this weekend (it’s been dry hopping for a week now and a month in the primary) but earlier this week, I decided to get a kegging setup. It’s a 3 keg system from Kegconnection.com and it...

A friend and I are planning a Weizenbock in a couple of weeks and I have a few questions. With 7.5kg of grain, brewsmith is telling me to mash in with 19.5L of water, mash-out with 11L and sparge with 3L... It it really worth it to sparge with only 3L of water? Is it going to do anything...

Been lurking for awhile now, about to do my 6th batch tomorrow :) I have harvested the yeast from 2 bottles of Rogue Brutal Bitter and have stepped it up 3 times now. The picture in the link shows the yeast in a 1L jar with about 500ml of wort (or I guess it's beer now) after being cold...