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I dryhopped 5 gallons of IPA with 3oz of pellet hops in secondary. While transferring to keg I forgot to put a filter on the end of the racking tube. I'm forcecarbing and cold crashing as I type, and, I had to pull a sample just because I'm way too eager to drink this IPA. I have discovered...

One of my glass carboys fell over last night and shattered on the floor while it was drying. Meh. 99% of the break was isolated to the area immediately where it was drying. I had roughly 4 cases of uncovered empty bottles sitting upright on the floor and several carboys filled with star...

Is it safe to slip a Carboy Jacket over a Fermwrap that's taped to the side of your carboy? http://morebeer.com/view_product/16674/beerwinecoffee/The_FermWrap_Heater http://morebeer.com/view_product/16586//Carboy_Parka_-_5_Gallon The Fermwrap only kicks out 40 watts of heat. My...

I've got two Roselare packs from May 09 that I found in the back of my refrigerator. I've got beer in secondary that I was planning on adding Roselare to, along with some other critters from commercial bottles. Should I buy new Roselare packs or should I still be able to use the...

So I made a Flemish Red with the Roselare blend two weeks ago. It's been sitting in a hot room covered with blankets (to avoid sunlight) since then. Its been extremely hot outside and the room has had a peak ambient temperature at some times during the day of 80F. I've read that the higher...

So I've added a bunch of grapes to some sour carboys recently. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/cabernet-sauvignon-grapes-177091/ The fruit has floated to the top of the carboy, and there is roughly a 1/4 inch layer of them that are raised up and out of the beer. Plenty of the grapes...

Major move forward in the sour carboys this week. I ordered some cabernet sav must at http://midwestsupplies.com/ and added it to some beer. Some history: In May 09 I made the Wild Brews recipes for Flanders Red and Flanders Pale. Primaried with Roselare in each for 3 weeks then moved to...

So I made a french saison with WY3711 back in August in hopes of making a clean saison. I racked it to secondary with an auto siphon that had some bugs left in it from a previous funky batch (I did not sanitize very well). The clean batch got infected with what I'm thinking was simply...

Anyone had the Nøgne Ø/Jolly Pumpkin/Stone Special Holiday Ale this season? I for one am ridiculously impressed with this beer and I want to create something close to it. I can probably put the grain bill together but what I'm more concerned about is the sage and chestnuts. I guess what...

How long can you keep sour dregs for before pitching? I took mine out of the refrigerator overnight and forgot to throw them in the carboy, and then put them back in the fridge. Can I still use them?

I'll begin by saying that I've never made a yeast starter. But I do love some commercial wild ale out there and really want to use some of that awesome yeast in the bottom of the bottle. Once I've made my mini batch of wort and I've pitched the dregs from the bottle, how long will it take to...

How long would you keep a saison on fruit puree for? I'm splitting a 10 gallon saison dupont-ish clone with a friend who wants to add blood orange puree to his 5 gallons. The saison has 26 IBU's (east kent bittering, saaz/sterling aroma) and WLP565 was used in primary. Fermented at 80F-83F...

Today I was told that some people use steel wool in their auto-siphon when racking to be sure to get the cleanest beer as possible into secondary. Has anyone here done this? The reason I ask is because of my issue of the broken hydrometer. There's still a slight chance that a small amount...

While cleaning equipment after brewing I noticed that the small glass tip of my hydrometer was cracked off. It might have been broken prior to the brew session, or I might have cracked it afterwards - I just don't know. I'm not so concerned about glass shards because I used a strainer while...

Two and a half weeks ago I brewed a sweet stout, O.G. 1.070. It's down to 1.020 and I want to transfer to secondary and put it on cherry puree. 1) Is it too early to do this 2) How long should it stay on the cherry puree Thanks!

Hi guys, So I tried dryhopping a Celebration Clone for the first time recently. Pellets in secondary directly on beer, and voila! Lots of microscopic bits of hops floating everywhere. Left it like that for 6 days. Then, while racking to tertiary, in an effort to get the hops off of the...

I just found this forum today while I was bored at work. Nice site - I hope to be able to contribute when I can, although my knowledge base is still growing. I'm still new to this stuff. There's a vendor that has a Brew on Premises setup that I've produced a couple of batches at. I made...