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After making a starter the other day with WLP001 I refilled the white labs tube alittle more than half way(after soaking the tube in starsan of course) and put it back in the fridge. Is this okay to do? I plan on making another starter from it in a month or so and doing it again if it's a good...

Has anyone ever broken the cooling line on the inside of a mini fridge while bending the freezer tray part back? Because I just did. It kinked a little, and then cracked a little, and then sprayed a little. I quickly covered the hole with a ton of quick sealing silicone but I'm not sure if it's...

And what a great day it is. Sitting by myself drinking one of my almond browns and brewing up a 13gal batch of a birthday blond.  Life is good. Who agrees with me?

I brewed a 10 gal batch of an IPA about two weeks ago and I thought it was going well until I checked the SG today. My OG was kinda bigger at 1.068( I was shooting for 1.054 and was way more efficient than I planned) I split it into two carboys and pitched a fresh vial of WLP001 into one and...

I'm in the middle of a boil right now on an IPA. My target preboil gravity was 1.044 and I hit 1.062!!! Is that really 92% efficiency or am I doing my math all wrong? Either way I decided to take all the Amarillo I was gonna dry hop with and throw them in at 30 min ti get my IBUs higher to...

I'm brewing today I'm starting to second guess my recipe. Does this look decent or is it way off? 4lb maris otter 3lb 2 row 2lb Munich 10L 1lb crystal 60L FYW 5.5 AAU cascade 30 min 6 AAU chinook 15 min 4 AAU amarillo 3 min 7 AAU cascade Flame out 5.5 AAU cascade and 6 AAU Amarillo WhiteLabs...

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I just upgraded my brew kettle from 7.5 gal to a 20 gal one. I didn't think to check the diameter of my burner and when the kettle got here it was wider then I thought it was and it doesn't fit inside the little ridge on my cheap turkey burner. Would it be bad to use it anyway and just set the...

I brewed a brown ale alittle over a week ago now and the fermentation was kinda slow to start but once it started it really took off. And it didn't stop. The krausen was really big and I had a lot of blow off for about 9 days and when it finally went down I couldn't see into the carboy because...

Okay, I'm going to try to make this as not confusing as I can, but I'm not making any promises. I've done a few AG batches now and I always seem to have really poor efficiency no matter what I do. So on my last batch I made sure to pay really close attention and record everything I did so...

So a few weeks ago I racked a Rye IPA to seconday and had every intention of harvesting the yeast. Well, as I was moving the carboy into the closet my brother-in-law, trying to help out, rinsed out and started cleaning the primary not knowing that I was going to save that yeast. I was too late...

I'm about to brew my first wheat beer and curious as to what everyones favorite hop combos are. All my brews so far have been mainly APAs and IPAs with the occasional brown ale thrown in. Im loving the Chinook/Cascade combo but not sure it would work very well in a wheat beer.

Hey everyone. This is my first post on here. I pretty new to brewing, I've done about 6 brews. I've tried a few of my own recipes but they never quite come out like I imagined or my LHBS suggests that I add or change something. I just want to see what you guys think about this recipe. This...