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Hello Everyone, I cultured a very small amount of yeast from a 250 ml san pellegrino bottle of home brew. It is a belgian ardens yeast, i started it in about 4 cups of wort and you barely see the yeast in the wort. It did grow to cover the bottom quite well after a few day. It never took...

Good Morning, Quick question; At what point do hops stop imparting flavour and just become bittering? I use magnum for bittering because it just seems a waste to use a flavorful fragrant hop at the beginning of a boil. So when is that the flavour and fragrance are lost? And if there...

Good morning everyone, I have picked up ingredients for my next brew. It's going to be a rye IPA sorta. I am doing a mini mash with my new mini mashtun set up. Its one of those really small igloo coolers with A braided hose at the bottom. I an thinking about adding a vegetable steamer false...

Planning ahead for next year. I'd like to make a gallon of cider for next year Christmas. What would a good For having it be right and good for this time next year? I'm thinking I'd like to use some mulling spices for 30 minutes and 5 minutes. Also going to boost the of with some white sugar...

Hello Everyone, first of all i realize that buying a new pack of notty will only cost me 2.75. So i am asking this in the quest for knowledge. I just made a gallon of CDA and i pitched the notty yeast too high! 80 or something... it was just not a good move and have since learned from...

Hello everyone! A couple wee ago I made an APA 2.2kg lme 500g crystal 20 400g carafoam 85g German munic (a handful for good measure) Bringing it to 1.047 og ending with 1.012 fg All cascade hops bringing it to 36 Ibu the additions were weighted more to the 20 min mark to get the...

I am doing a partial recipe with 4.8 pounds of lme and 3 lbs of grains with a mash of 45 min and a boil of 1 hour. It's an imperial IPA with a OG of 1.090 and tonnes of hops. I have a 12.3 liter stock pot. I have been searching and searching and i just cant find the amounts for the mash/steep...

So I am back with more fun! I tried again to make a 1 gallon all-grain batch (yes, i'm a noob and should be doing canned stuff right now...) I bought 3 pounds of grain, i used from papazian book the measurement that each pound retains .1 of a liter, I started with 1 gallon mash which meant i...

I recently made a batch of beer from all grains, in a previous post we decided that it was a style 14.Andrew or i like to call it a "Vienna IPL (india pale lager)" The problem, i mashed the grains for 60 minutes @ 155, at the begining of the 60 minutes i put in the hops, and at the last 15...

Hello everyone, First of all thanks for taking a look at my thread! So, here we go, i made my first batch of beer on a total whim a few months ago just because my friend said he knew how and i thought it would be fun. So we made a batch... all wrong! We made a lager with a primary...