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I am dialing in my process for all grain and I have been using the numbers beersmith has been giving me in terms of volumes of water to add. When I finish the sparge and hit my preboil volume I always have about 3/4 of a gallon in my mash tun still. Should I be draining the whole mash tun volume...

The video speaks for itself. Pretty cool http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xClXKMhcFr0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxClXKMhcFr0%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

I'm thinking about harvesting some yeast from a recently bottled batch of beer and have a few questions. What I am planning on doing is collecting the yeast from a couple bottles by leaving an inch or so of beer in the bottle, swirling, and pitching into some sort of container. Then...

I caught the brewing bug pretty bad about two years ago. Then life happened and before I new it six months had gone by without me brewing! So today I decided to buy two mini mash kits as an easy way to renew my passion. Any new knowledge or cool equipment I should be aware of before I start...

In the back of my freezer I found a bag of pellet hops. I have completely forgot as to what kind of hops they are. I was thinking of just tossing them in for dry hopping my fermenting rue IPA. Does anyone foresee a potential problem with this or have any other good ideas? Me thinks that they are...

I was thinking earlier today that If most people are using Pepsi/coke kegs eventually they will be very tricky to find because they are no longer being made, and the rise in popularity of brewing. The only other option I can see is paying for those new corny kegs that I believe are like 120$. In...

At a job interview I brought up that I home-brew when they asked about my hobbies. The job was an associate scientist in a lab so I tried my best to show how much chemistry and biology was involved in the process. Looking back I'm thinking that it might have been a bad idea because to some...

Hello all Just fine tuning my legging set up. I set my keg to 10 psi but it seems as I drink the keg the regulator is showing a drop of pressure. Usually a small drop but enough to get me to readjust it. My very uneducated guess is that it's due to temperature fluctuations inside but can anyone...

So me and some buddies were drinking some Yards Love Stout on nitro the other day. The head on the glass was truly a thing of beauty. Creamy and lasted all the way down to the last drop. But i did notice something my friend was doing that i am sure we have all done at some point during a keg...

So i am going to a German Beer Hall in Philadelphia called Brauhaus Schmitz. I have been brewing for about 7 months and have been slowly discovering the awsomeness of good beer but havnt really ventured into imported beers yet. I have included the link to the beer menu. Can anyone suggest some...

Hey Guys... I am doing my first bigger beer OG of 1.074 so have some questions about my starter. 1) I made a 1.5L starter but Mr Malty suggests i use a 2L starter. If i were to decant all the liquid and add .5L of fresh wort would that get me to correct pitching rates or would the yeast...

Just bottled my first big beer, a stout. After 3 or 4 days i noticed a lot more sediment in the bottles then usual. Probably about twice as much. It sat in primary for about a month. Do bigger beers generally leave more sediment or did i just stir up more yeast then normal because of poor...

Hey guys... First attempt at my own recipe so trying to put together a simple IPA. Extract with steeping grains. Any thoughts or suggestions 1 lb Crystal 75L Malt 9 lb Extra Pale Extract (LME) 2 oz Citra hops (60 mins) 1 oz Falconers Flight (15 mins) 1 oz Cascade (1 mins) 1 oz Cascade (dry...

Hey all So to deal with higher temps i set up my first swamp cooler when i brewed monday afternoon. Used WLP400 (Optimum Fermentation Temperature: 67-74°F.) By tuesday morning fermentation was going good and i had my water in my cooler around 62 because i thought temps inside were to be a...

Hello all Well i think i have hit some sort of milestone. After about 6 months of brewing had my first homebrew dream. I was at my LHBS to pick up some supplies for a batch and they were all out of ingredients. The only thing they had on hand was Bud Light and Miller Lite clone recipe...

Hey all http://www.coronacigar.com/products/hopz-the-craft-beer-cigar.html Anyone try these cigars yet? Apparently they are seasoned with Centennial hops. Could be interesting to smoke one with a real hoppy beer.

Hello All Not completely a noob but still have tons to learn. I have a few questions about my Honey Hibiscus kit that i plan on brewing this weekend. 1)The recipe calls for 1/2 oz of cracked coriander seed but they sent me regular uncracked seed. Do i need to crush them and if i do whats...

My bottling wand thing broke so i bottled last night directly from the spigot on my bottling bucket. Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

I just cracked open my third batch last night. I drank about 15 of them and then threw up everywhere. I also had trouble standing and called up an ex girlfriend to yell at her. What do you guys think? Is it infected? Should i toss it?

Well i was working on my second batch which was a Brewers Best extract kit and i was steeping my specialty grains. I had been to happy hour before i started, and ended up steeping at a lower temperature for about 2.5 min before i realized my mistake. I believe i was steeping at 60C and thought...