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Hi there. I am trying to get back into homebrewing and want to start getting my water up to snuff as part of my practices. I live in Greenville, SC, which has great water overall but probably a little high in pH. Reports show Ca 1 Mg 1 Na 8 Cl 5 SO4 5 and 7.8 pH...

So I brewed an Imperial Coffee Stout. OG 1.086, used yeast nutrient, rehydrated US05 and gradually introduced wort to the pitch mix to avoid temp shock. Pitched when the wort was down to about 70 after shaking the carboy a lot for oxygen. Fermented in a mini fridge with temp controller set at...

I recently bottled a beer that had been stuck, probably due to hot mash temp making wort nonfermentable. I repitched with champagne yeast and didn't get any more drops in SG over several days, so I went ahead and bottled with 3g dextrose/5 gallons. That was about 5 days ago. I have some PET...

I've been fermenting a pumpkin ale for a few weeks now, and it appears to have stalled out. OG was 1.080 and it's been stuck at about 1.026 for quite a while. I've tried stirring up, nutrient and even repitched with more US05. Temp has been maintained at around 65 for most of the time, so I...

Hey all, I am trying to make a pineapple wine out of frozen fruit. I have about 15 lbs of the stuff, figuring on 5ish gallons, as I don't have smaller carboys. All of the recipes I've found are for concentrate or juice or don't really say anything about batch size. Can anyone point...

I can't seem to find anything definitive on this recipe for an AG 5.5 gallon batch. Everything I seem to pull up is pretty old and heavily conflicted. Does anyone know of a recent and reliable recipe for this saison? Thank you!

I have been considering some IPA possibilities, and in my research, I ran into the concern that I do not have a secondary fermentation vessel. I am not exactly sure how necessary secondary is, and there seem to be numerous opinions about it... Is this the only way to dry hop? Does much...

Craigs doesn't seem to have any in my area, so what is the best place to order online? Or does anyone have any they want to ship?

I have a CDN ProAccurate probe thermometer (the kind that has a digital face attached to a 6ish-inch probe. For heating up my strike water, would it be effective and safe for the thermometer to leave the probe stuck into the water via a hole in the lid of my kettle? How far do I need to...

I am experimenting with BeerSmith 2, and I have selected the BIAB Full Body profile, since that's what I plan on doing. I also plan to do a little 1-2 gallon sparge rinse after I mashout, but I can't seem to find a way to ensure this is accounted for in the program. How do I account for this in...

Having trouble figuring out what needs to be different from all the standard AG recipes I see. I am going for my first batch of BIAB method, and I have been meaning to use up some oatmeal I got at Costco. Maybe some maple syrup thrown in there too? Could not find anything on BIABbrewer, and I...

Hey guys, I recently got a North American Outdoor 35 qt Saf T Cooker fryer thing. I read that it would be a good idea to boil some water in the aluminum pot for a while before brewing, so today I decided to give it a shot. I was never able to get the flame mostly blue, and it was a...

Hello again, all As I continue to pore over numerous threads regarding BIAB process, more and more questions pop up. One to which I can't seem to find an answer is in regard to water displacement volumes. Here is my situation: I have an 8.75 gallon kettle and want to do 5-5.5 gallon...

I apologize in advance, as I know that the answers to my questions are out there to be found, but I have been reading for hours and am unable to synthesize it all. My familiarity with all the technical speak is not as advanced as I'd like it to be, which gives me trouble in sifting through all...