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Hi all, I started a batch of plum wine according to this recipe last Friday: https://eckraus.com/content/plumwine.pdf I didn't pay any attention to it all week, and I just transferred it to a secondary carboy. Didn't see a whole lot of yeast activity when I popped it open, but there was some...

I have been kegging my beer for close to a year, and have had to refill a 10lb co2 tank like 4 times, because it keeps leaking out! i have pin lock kegs, and i have replaced all of the orings with the silicon ones in the size recommended on this site. I use a thin layer of keg lube on the...

this is the third time this has happened - i go away for the weekend and come back to find that my co2 tank in my keezer is empty. i've sprayed around looking for leaks, replaced orings....not really sure what else to do! i have my co2 manifold attached to the lid of the keezer, and my hunch...

hey everyone, i have been doing a lot of reading on this forum in order to improve some of my brewing techniques, and i feel like i am seeing two different opinions about when to bottle/keg beer: opinion #1: leave beer in primary 3-4 weeks for an average size beer, then keg or bottle. this...

i brewed a partial mash amber ale a few months ago and decided i would try keeping it in the primary for the length of fermentation, since people on this forum speak to that method all the time. prior to this, all my beers went for ~1 week in the primary, ~2 in secondary with no problems. After...

i've been fermenting a california common for the last 8 days at 55 degrees. used the san francisco lager from white labs, made a starter, temperature has been consistent. OG was 1.053, and a hydrometer sample today measures 1.012. I'll take another in a few days, but i am guessing it is pretty...

hey all, i just finished up my second all grain batch, and i'm still trying to learn a bit about mash efficiency, brewhouse efficiency, and how beersmith calculates it all. i have my total efficiency set to 75%. with this, i am right on the money with my preboil volume and gravity - my...

hey all, i made my first yeast starter last night with the plan of refrigerating it tonight, decanting and pitching it into a brew that i will be making tomorrow afternoon. thing is, i think the starter is still working. it was slow to get going, i think because my house is cold, but i...

hey everyone, i've done some reading around and it sounds like there are some people out there who use a thermocouple and multimeter for their temperature readings. I know it is not the most accurate method, but it was working well for me until this past weekend. I was really stoked to hit my...

hey everyone, compulsive browsing in this forum has convinced me to go all grain. built up a mash tun last week and got a killer deal on a 44qt turkey fryer. i'm going to brew my first AG on saturday, and I want to take a crack at the Pliny recipe that has been discussed throughout this...

hey everyone, i've brewed maybe 7 partial mash beers, and i'm just jumping into all grain. all of my beers have been tasty, and they have all had a period of about 2-3 weeks in bottles (after 3 weeks in a fermenter) where they tasted green before they started tasting good. most people say...

I am going to add some cold brew coffee to my secondary tomorrow and then keg the batch. I would add the coffee to the keg and then rack on top of it, but I want to bottle some beers, as i don't think my keg will be able to hold my entire batch. however, in the past, i have added priming...

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hey everyone, im currently brewing a milk stout that will go into a keg in a few days and sit to age until christmas. I was planning on adding coffee to the beer, and it seems like cold brewing a batch is the way to go. My fear is that if i let this beer age 2+ months, the coffee flavor will...

i just kegged a beer for the first time. it is an ipa. it has been force carbonating for about 5 days and has a little carbonation (got restless and drank some early) but needs a little more time to be right. however, it tastes a little off. from my experience with previous beers that i have...

Hello. I recently kegged my first beer. It has been sitting under pressure in my newly built kegerator for 5 days and I got impatient, so I just connected the beer line and poured a beer. Its good :) but not fully carbonated yet, clearly. My question is, will it continue to carbonate if I leave...

i brewed a belgian wit, bottled about 5 weeks ago. i've been trying bottles along the way ever since about 2 weeks...no carbonation. i began swirling the bottles a bit after 3 weeks to get the yeast back in suspension, and after 4 weeks, i had one bottle that was fantastic! so i cracked...