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Quick question: My local homebrew supply store was out of white labs california ale yeast, but said that Wyeast american ale yeast was the same exact yeast strain, just different company/name. I have seen online the comparison charts, showing white labs to wyeast, and it was the wyeast...

Question: has anyone out there put orange peel in the hoprocket when using it as a hopback? If so, how did i turn out? Enhance the nose? Add any bitterness?

Most of my beers are 7.5% or >. I could try racking into a 3rd vessel, but doesn't that then introduce a greater risk of oxidation?

Does the use of a hop back make dry hopping unnecesary? I'm always pretty disappointed in the nose of my beers. It doesn't seem to matter how many ounces of hop pellets that i add to my secondary, my beer always seems to be missing the explosive nose that i am looking for. That led me to looking...

So a month or so ago i wanted to bottle a few six packs off of my keg. At the time, since i was in wash and santize mode, i prepared extra bottles for future use. For the extra bottles, i sanitized a bunch of bottle caps, emptied the sanitize from the bottle, and capped them. Thinking that when...

Interesting Jerrodm. Thanks to all for commenting and sharing.

Quick question: So when batch sparging, should my goal be to sparge with 170 degree water? Or is my goal to get the batch up to 170 degrees (so use water higher than than 170 degrees)? I've just been batch sparging with 170 degree water. Thanks

I tried this recipe recently. I added an addtional lb of the smoked grain as suggested. Just racked into secondary last night and taste tested my hydrometer sample... The smoke flavor was still extremely subtle. To be honest, it was almost non-existent. Now, in comparison, the Rogue smoke ale...

Great. Thanks for the advice. Let's see how this goes

I guess I should have added that it is in a glass carboy. How would I do the latter step that you mentioned? I thought about attaching the bag to the racking cane, leaving a little slack. But won't it just get clogged.

Hi guys, I'm about to keg this batch today. This beer was dry hopped with like 6 oz of pellet hops. I was wondering if anyone had any tips for kegging this batch with the least amount of hop particles. I ran into problems before with a dry hopped beer in my kegging system. The dip tube kept...

Has anyone checked the ph after making one of these filter attachments? If so, how are the readings coming out? Obviously everyone has a different local water supply. Just want to get an idea

JPC. Duh. That is actually a very simple yet good solution. I don't want to plug up and have an additional hole drilled in this expensive pot. I can't believe i didn't think to just boil additional water. I feel ashamed to admit that i didn't think of this. Thanks again!

Great info. Thanks Malfet. I will have to rethink the ice water strategy. I wanted to go this route because i was wasting so much water with the IC. I guess the process of switching to the plate chiller will reduce the waste. As far as letting it settle after flame out, should i put a lid on...

Ugh. So I am basically just confusing myself at this point after reading on all of the different techniques out there. Let me explain my current set up and hopefully someone can direct me on how to proceed. So first off, like most, chilling the wort has been my least favorite part about...

Thought i would run this idea past a few of you, to hear your thoughts on if it would work. So i have the Blichmann 10 gallon boilermaker. As you may know, it has the dip tube inside which doesn't allow for an attachment of a Bazooka screen. I was wondering what the result would be if i just...

This may be a dumb question, but I haven't seen anything on why it is done. While watching a few all grain batch videos on YouTube, I see that a lot of people have their burners sitting on top of cinder blocks. Is there some sort of airflow benefit? I've also seen people have their burners...

So i just purchased the 10 gallon boilermaker and did my first all grain batch yesterday. I made my purchase knowing that the thermometer sits a little to high. Basically it rests at about the 4 gallon mark. When i was heating up my strike water the thermometer was basically pointless, because i...

Thanks for all the input everyone!

Question concerning my yeast starter. I made it on wednesday with the intention to brew this friday (today). Can i hold off brewing until Sunday, or is that too long? The weather is $hitty around here, but looks nice on sunday. If it matters, i used a wyeast smack pack, quart of water, half...