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I've been homebrewing for a while....so I've learned not to panic much... Anyway, the wife wanted to make some wine, so we went out and bought a Chard. kit. Everything went well, sample tastes good. It cleared nicely. Upon bottling, the siphon kicked up some sediment on the bottom, so some...

I'm sure the answer is here somewhere, but I just cannot find it. I have a direct-fire mash tun with a false bottom that has approx 1 gal of volume beneath it. My real deadspace (that which will not be transferred to boil) is a about .25 gallon. If I enter the true dead space of .25 gal...

I had/have what I thought was a lacto infection at the end of fermentation, filmy, big bubbles etc, but I thought I would let it go and see what happened. Stuck it in the fridge to cold crash and it has totally disappeared. So, I'm pretty sure I cannot get rid of an infection via cold crashing...

Thought I would throw this out here. My friends, who aren't afraid to tell me if my recipe sucks, keep coming back to this one. I love it, but am biased... Celtic Stout American Stout (13 E)Type: All Grain Batch Size: 6.00 gal Boil Size: 8.28 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 7.28...

Does anyone know the rules regarding classifications? I have a Stout I am thinking of entering into the Drunk Monk, just to get feedback if anything else. It meets the American Stout guidelines, except I have add Powers Irish Whiskey and Coffee to it. Would that still fit the American Stout...

and I am brewing outside. So much steam, I can't even see if it is boiling!

I fermented in a bucket. I washed the bucket, let some cleanser sit in it for a week. Next brew day I santized it and re-used it. The next beer (a bitter) still smells a bit like a Saison. The bucket now says "for Saison use only". Lesson learned.

Working on my first recipe (and brewing tomorrow) of an APA using Citra Hops for dry hopping. This will be my first time using Citra, I understand it is fairly a fairly strong hop...so....at 3 ounces / 5 gallons dry-hop am I over doing it? This is a 10 gallon batch, with the following hop...

I'm going to an Ale Fest on Saturday, a lot of brewers, but I want to try some beers I have not had before...so here is a list of the ones that will be there and I have not tried there brews yet, can you provide thumbs up or down if you have tried them? (I am limited to 15 beers....) Arcadia...

I switched over from a single to a double tap config on my kegerator recently and in order to do this, I purchased a C02 distributer (with check-valve). I set my lines up correctly, and the beer in my keg carbed up nicely. When I went to pour, it poured slow, which I am OK with. But, when I...

Yes. You read that correctly. I don't even like bud light that much. Wife got it at target where for $.67 per case. Yep, $.03 per beer. Can't turn down a free beer.

I think I have decided to move to a direct fired recirculating mash this summer, but I have a question? If I have the capacity in my mash tun, since I am recirculating, can I just put my full water requirement in and essentially eliminate the sparging step? Will this have a detrimental impact...

As luck would have it, heading into NW Indiana this weekend to visit some friends. Wife, who is not a beer drinker, suggested we hit 3 Floyds up on the way back. Great deal! Oops, this Saturday is Dark Lord Day, can't get in. Looks like a future trip. Since we will be in Crown Point...

There must be some creative bottle caps being used? I put a picture of our dog on my bottle caps!

I let the fermenting bucket sit overnight in sanitizer, emptied it during the boil. After I chilled the wort, I drained it into the fermenting bucket, and all sorts of foam rose to the top of the wort. Scooped off most of it, added the yeast at around 70 and let it sit for a couple days...

I'm a big fan of peaty scotches, so I thought I would try to come up with a recipe for a stout that has some peaty flavorings. This would be my first recipe, so any thoughts would really be appreciated! Here is what I am planning on doing: 10 lbs 2-Row Malt 3 lbs Chocolate Malt 1 lb...