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It is winter and my fridge in the garage froze some of my yeast packs. I don't think this is going to ruin anything, but would like some confirmation from you guys. They are now thawed. I don't know how long they were frozen. Does anyone think this might have ruined them? I'm going to...

Does anyone have a love/hate relationship with their Therminator? I love this thing, but last night when we were chilling it got clogged right away. So we finished cooling enough for one carboy and then disconnected it to flush it out. If you have one of these and you use pellet hops you know...

I ended up with too much wort in my kettle so I ran off about a gallon into a small kettle that I covered and put in my fridge. I normally make starters with DME, but I'm thinking that I can just boil this 'unboiled' wort and make a starter with it. BUT - i'm worried the wort might spoil or...

Since I have upgraded to a one barrel brewery at home, I needed to figure out a way to cut down on yeast cost. I tried washing, but what a pain in the neck. Dumping on top of yeast cake always makes me a little nervous. (However, since we fill 6 carboys at a time and don't like to wash that many...

I want to do a protein rest as I am going to brew a pale ale with 100% maris otter. The problem is that i don't know how to get to mash temp because water here boils at 195 deg bcs I am at 7000 ft above sea level. I often use Green Bay Rackers--Mash Calculators to do my calculations, but there...

Tis the season for the pumpkin ale... so thought i would give it a try. I used canned pumpkin which might have been a big mistake. poured into my carboy... and there is about 6" of goop on the bottom... I'm wondering how i am going to syphon or what is going to happen when i do...

I am to the point where i need/want to start a yeast bank. I've read several yeast propagation methods here, but haven't seen anything like what i am thinking of doing. The big worry is contamination. I've put new wort on cake from my primary and it worked fine, but it seems risky since i dont'...

I was planning on brewing the other day but i wanted to put my new wort on some yeast cake. The problem was that the wort in the fermenter with the yeast cake was not done fermenting. I had a thought that maybe i could just siphon out some of the fermenting wort and put it into my new wort...