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Well, after about 60 batches or so under my belt, I'm pretty sure I got my first infected batch this week. I brewed a pale ale about a month ago, and dry hopped it in the primary. Racked to secondary yesterday and added gelatin finings. The yeast cake smelled awful. I mean I know yeast can get...

I saw an old thread about it and it decended into a disaster discussing the legal transportation across state lines and such. Did anything ever come of that? Surely I'm not the only one who would be interested in trading some different rhizomes around. We could even just say that all trades...

Same recipe, beer tools... Twiggy's Pale Ale 10-A American Pale Ale Size: 6.5 gal Efficiency: 65% Attenuation: 75.0% Calories: 174.45 kcal per 12.0 fl oz Original Gravity: 1.052 (1.045 - 1.060) Terminal Gravity: 1.013 (1.010 - 1.015) Color: 6.97 (5.0 - 14.0) Alcohol: 5.16% (4.5%...

Brewed a Lagunitas WTF clone today, everything went so well, hit all my numbers, couldn't have been happier. Chilled to about 80, then transferred to carboy and stuck in in my fermentation chest to cool the last few degrees off. I usually pitch right before I go to bed. The gory details...

I'm thinking about simplifying and trying a no sparge batch next time around. I've been getting about 78% efficency with a batch sparge. How much should I need to boost my grain bill due to the slight efficiancy losses due to skipping the sparge? And do you just mash with your total water...

I recently had the Lagunitas Little Sumptn' and it inspired me to brew after a little time off... This recipe is not intended to be exact, just similar style with my own take on it. Questions... Is everyone still doing a mash in at 122? I always did and then slowly raised the temp...

Was going to make a Schwartzbier with Kolsch yeast. Saved some from the last batch, and threw it in a growler and made a starter. Fast forward to brew day. After the chill, was ready to pitch the yeast. Went to the back room to retrieve my growler of starter and the lid had blown off, and...

Ive futzed around with this, I think it's pretty much ready. I'm going for an authentic profile, so no chocolate malt. Was thinking about more pils, less munich. The yeast is really Wyeast 2000, Budjuvice Lager. Any suggestions from someone who's brewed one? Schwarzbier! 4-C Schwarzbier...

My brewing situation is thus... I tend to have to leave town for extended periods of time with very little notice. I want to be able to use this to my advantage. Yeast work very well on their own, without me standing next to them cheering them on. So Ive been fine with ales being left in...

Quick question.... I've got a Pils in secondary lagering right now and I saved a pint jar of the yeast, trub and all and stuck it in the fridge. (Wyeast 2000) I've done yeast washing before, but I really did not have the time. I sanitized the jar in the oven for an hour at 350 and the lid...

Just wanted to get an outside viewpoint, I planted cascade and hallertau this year, and my first year plants couldn't have been more different. Cascade grew slowly but ultimately ended up with about a 10 foot bine and yielded 2 oz. of dried hops, which for the first year is probably about...

I usually do pales and hefes, so here we go, what do y'all think? Came up with this one on my own. Any suggestions on yeast? We like them malty, with good mouthfeel, not too dry. I happen to have a packet of S-34, but I'd use whatever would be best for the style. Amy's Pilz 2-A...

Hefeweizen, of course... 3 lbs pilsner DME 4 lbs white wheat malt .5 lb carapils Mashed the grains with 3 gallons of water at about 158 in the brew kettle inside a grain bag for 45 minutes, then pulled the bag and let it drain. No sparge, figured I had plenty of water in the mash...

Brewed a Berliner W last week, let it sour for about four days with laco, then boiled Sunday night and pitched Monday morning. So 2 and a half days have gone by and NO airlock activity, no krausen, no nothing. Did not use a starter, (it says you don't have to) I pitched at about 70 and...

About ten batches into my all grain brewing experience. Up till now I've done a couple pales, a couple Hefes, a wit, doesn't matter. Anyway, I use the Gott 10 gallon cooler and false bottom for mash and lauter in the same vessel. Did a double batch sparge pretty hot thinking it would help...

Well I'm contemplating trying the dry stuff. Ive always used WLP001 and had fairly good results with it, as in with the fermentation, but it's always left a very very slight yeasty twang that I find takes forever to age out of the beer. I'm interested in trying US-05 in my next Pale Ale and my...

Well I was brewing my belgian blueberry Wit for the woman today, and everything was going swimmingly. Too good. After a perfect mash session, good boil, and all, I cranked up the immersion chiller and the da*)%^(*^% thing blew a line inside my wort. By the time I caught it, it had leaked at...

:off: OK I admit this has nothing to do with homebrew, but I thought I'd come to the experts with this. I had a work trip down to Nassau this week and today, I had a Heiny with lunch. Now, normally I think that stuff tastes like skunk piss, but it was that or Bud Light. Today's beer, this...

The girl wants a blueberry beer of some kind so I think a Belgian Wit would be a good place to start. Just threw this plan together, wont have a chance to brew it for a few weeks. I want something very light in color, pretty dry, and nice and cloudy. 5.25# Belgian Pils 5# Belgian...

I wanted to try the yeast recovery method so I dumped the yeast from 2 bottles of Hefe (WLP300) into a 1L flask where I had some starter wort made up from extra light DME and 1 hop pellet. I was happy to see it quickly show signs of normal fermentation in that flask. Then I had to go out of...