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Hey everybody, I've encountered something of a mystery development in a fermenter of mine, and while I'm pretty much doing nothing about it I was wondering if anyone else had seen something similar. I prepped a pretty standard 80% 2-row / 20% vienna malt grain bill with some light hopping...

Hey everyone, I’ve been perusing the forums for a bit now after having convinced myself that I was going to try a Berliner Weiss. I of course made this decision with little to no thought, and having gone through the forums for a while I feel like I have been looking through WebMD after...

Hey guys, As the title says, I'm about to take a crack at my first lager and have only a loose understanding of what I am doing and I was hoping someone on here could make fun of my ideas enough to point me in a slightly better direction. I recently bought a Brew Jacket Immersion Cooler...

Homebrew makes you fart too much. There has got to be a way to minimize that - filtering?

Dumb question, but I have a new 10 gallon kettle that I'm going to attempt to do full boils in. It has the 2 half inch valves - a bottom one for the ball valve, and a top one that I will use for a thermometer (because they're nifty). If I use an immersion chiller, after the wort is cooled, can...

Hey guys, I've got a bit of a question, and I figured only brewers would be helpful here... I'm an extract brewer, and have only 6 batches under my belt. My beer has its issues (beginners stuff) but I think they'll start coming together nicely soon enough. For Christmas, I asked for...

Hey guys, I've got a few batches under my belt and each one of them has become obnoxiously overcarbed. In one I even added only 3g of the dextrose to the bottling bucket before bottling. Is it possible that I'm just storing the bottles in too warm of a location? Is it advisable to store...

Hey friends - I use a lot of LME, but was looking to avoid the darkening affects of the LME as well as the "extract twang" that is oft mentioned. A common solution to these problems is the late addition from what I've seen, but I have a quick question about it... If it's a 60 minute...

Hey guys, I'm about to start two brews - one an over-hopped APA and the other a kolsch. However I'm using kolsch yeast for both. I've read people are lagering with the kolsch yeast??? I was planning on throwing the fermenting buckets into my basement where lately it's been sitting in the...

Hey guys, I'm getting a little curious about kegging and therefore getting a kegerator, or an additional fridge for the beer that I would install a spout on. After a quick cruise around the interweb - what is with people trying to get new prices for used kegerators??? What is the best way to...

Just opened an APA. Tastes like a Belgian. Disappointed and wanted to say something. So many esters that if I didn't tell you what kind it was supposed to be, someone might actually think that's what it was supposed to taste like. Hate those dang esters. (yes I know they're technically my...

Hey guys, I brewed up a trappist recently - Sunday night. So it's been a little over 36 hours and I have yet to see a bubble. I thought maybe the swamp cooler temp is too low (64-66 ish), but I popped the lid just to take a peek. There is a good layer of white foam that I am thinking is...

Hey guys, Brewed up a batch of the Noble Trappist Ale from MW last night - off the top of my head, the recipe consists of 8 oz Caramel 40L, 8 oz Carapils, 6 lbs Pilsen Light LME, 2 oz Hallertau, 1 lb Belgian Candi Sugar, 1 oz Styrian Goldings and I used Wyeast's 3787 - Trappist High Gravity...

Alright, I'm really asking more for reference, but how is a malt liquor made, and can it be made at home? I don't really want to replicate Colt, Olde English, Mickey's or Steel Reserve, but am curious. Is it just a ton of low-grade malt in the wort? Someone is going to get home-brew iced.

Hey guys, I've got a few extract kits making their respective ways through my fermenters and I have got to thinking maybe I would like to start branching out and making more mistakes along the lines of "I don't know what I'm doing with ingredients" as opposed to "I don't know what I'm doing...

What is the highest temperature possible to pitch yeast into the wort - White labs vial. Buddy threw yeast in at 110. Dead? Thanks guys!

Getting a little ahead of myself here, but was wondering if it is at all possible to cold crash in a swamp cooler? How cold does it have to be, and for how long for a cold crash to be effective? Was thinking it would just take a good deal more ice for say 12-24 hours. Is this feasible...

Hey there guys - newbie question... What is the best way of sanitizing a carboy? I've read that in order to sanitize something the object should be exposed to, in this instance Star-San, for 2 minutes. Seems like a lot of sanitizer is to be used to get one carboy sanitized if I had to fill...

I know I spelled them incorrectly, but can anyone tell me what these things mean, or point me in the right direction. Rookie... Thanks!

Hey guys, Beginning brewer who has yet to really embrace RDWHAHB just yet... I was on my second brew last night, an APA kit from Brewer's Best, with upgraded yeast to Wyeast 1056 - American Ale. I unfortunately did not buy enough ice this time around to sufficiently cool the wort in the...