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This is my girlfriend's brewing attempt at a winter brew and it has a funny later I've never seen before in the fermenter... Any ideas???

Hey folks, my buddy's fiance wants a pomegranate beer, I've never done a fruity beer before so I'm looking for a little help with this recipe. I was thinking a lighter ale or lager and adding pomegranate juice into the fermenter with the wort. Thoughts and suggestions? I am still extract/partial...

Hello friends! I've found a stout recipe that I want to make into an oatmeal stout. It's a partial grain (I don't do AG yet) and I've been looking at what threads I could find on here so far and it seems like adding oats to an extract/partial grain is at best useless. *However* I've seen a...

Ok so I've been doing a bunch of looking on here about using a keg as a fermenter and right now have gone with replacing the spear with a stopper drilled with a blow off and racking cane however I had an idea and wanted to run it by those with more experience than myself. So basically I was...

Ok folks I've looked around on here and seen many different opinions so I'm going to post my pictures and get some advice. We brewed the Deception Cream Stout recipe I found here, and used a wyeast smack pack. We started the pack about two hours before pitching in a pitcher of water (unopened)...

My buddy wants to toy with the idea of using a diaphragm pump after the chiller to move the wort from the brew pot to the carboy. His theory is that by the time it gets to the pump it will be cool enough for the pump. I don't have any experience with pumps or fluid mechanics. I couldn't find any...

So after a couple weeks of reading, researching, ordering equipment and preparing last night we (myself and a good friend have decided to get into this together) brewed our first batch. I was pretty proud considering that we built our own counterflow using copper tubing in a large PVC pipe with...