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Lately I've gotten into brewing lagers with the White Labs Mexican lager yeast. I would love to re-use my yeast but after two weeks of fermentation in the carboy and two to three weeks of lagering in the carboy - will that yeast still be good to use? I don't have a conical so I have no way of...

Moving kind of backasswards here but I have just picked up a 10 gallon Igloo mash tun. I was previously using a stainless pot to mash in but got tired of temperature drops. The Igloo smells strongly of plastic - do you do anything (hot water soak/rinse, etc) to remove the plastic smell? Or does...

Has anyone tried their hand at making a beer similar to Poperings Hommel Beer? I found the recipe below from another forum. It is supposedly from someone who has chatted with the brewers of this beer so I have high hopes. The only modification I was thinking of was reducing the late hops as by...

I am looking to bottle a dark Belgian strong and want to get it up to 3 volumes. Champagne bottles with regular beer caps would be ideal, but Champagne bottles are traditionally green. Alesmith however uses what appear to be very dark brown Champagne bottle that take a 29mm (vs. 26mm standard)...

I am planning to brew a Russian Imperial Stout this weekend. It will be my first. The only RIS I've had is Old Rasputin, which I like quite a bit. Rather than clone it I decided to try Jamil's RIS as a base line (see grain bill below). My question: it recommends 1.5 lbs of Roasted Barley. This...

I have a Belgian Pale in secondary that I added Brett and Pedio to about 6 months ago. At about the 3 month mark not much was happening and the beer smelled a little bretty. This morning I checked it out - there has been some action and there is a little layer of yeast on the bottom. And the...

I have a pound of Sorachi Ace in my freezer - not quite sure why I ordered it. Does anyone have experience making APA/IPA with it? I know it makes a good Saison but it is kind of past the Saison time of year (at least in Northern California). Any feedback/thoughts/experiences would be much...