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Am having a little difficulty maintaining lager temps. I just brewed a Bohemia clone and the recipe says to ferment at 52 degrees for 28 days. Here's the problem; our outdoor chest freezer ( we have a temp regulator on it) can usually hold the temp well when the outside temp is average at...

I am lagering a Baltic porter right now and it has been at 60degrees (chest freezer with a temp regulator) for 3 weeks now. I have two carboys; a plastic fermentation vessel and a glass one. The plastic one has some mold spores starting to grow. My gravity isn't where I want it yet, so my...

I am going to be brewing a Baltic porter this weekend; a version of Denny conn's vanilla bourbon porter. I was looking over my recipe and Reading about the different types of yeast to use with this beer and I found out that you can use a lager yeast or an ale yeast for this beer. My questions...

I brewed a beer this last weekend and had to use One of my plastic buckets to ferment in; I usually use 6.5 gallon glass carboy. When I use the glass carboy all of my ales go crazy during fermentation, I mean it gets all the way up the tubing and into my cup of star san. When I put this last...

Just made 10 gallons of an arrogant bastard clone and I may have put too much chinook in at the boil....3 ounces at 60 minutes. When I went to taste the gravity reading it was super bittey. The carboys are now in their third day of fermentation. Is there a way to mellow it out? Vanilla bean...

I am converting a chest freezer to a ferment chamber. I have the regulator etc. my question is this; Is it necessary to have a fan in the freezer to circulate the air and if so why do I need to do this?

Sorry if there is another thread answering this question. But I made a starter last night with wlp001 and I noticed the yeast settled a little early.... Like this morning. It smells fine. Has anyone else had this issue. Did I not aerate enough?

Does anyone have a good recipe for firestone's solace?

I brewed a ten gallon batch of Firestone dba and the starter is used flocculated and dropped to the bottom. When it was time to pitch it the majority of the yeast was on the bottom. Long story short I hardly pitched any yeast. I didn't notice that the yeast was still on the bottom. I have twi 6...

THis is my first time attempting a step infusion and had a couple of questions regarding the technique. I listened to cybi show with the brewmaster and he said they let is rest at 145* for 60 min and then bring it up to 155* for 15 min. Does this sound right so far? Am I gonna get my...

I Am about to put my vanilla bean bourbon porter into secondary and the recipe says to add the vanilla bean at this point. My question is do I sanitize the bean before putting it into secondary. Do I put in boiling water for a specific period of time?

Does anyone know what the capacity grains/pounds is for the 10 gallon home depot MLT. I am doing my first 10 gallon batch and my grain bill is going to be roughly 40 pounds, will that work with this MLT?

Tell me if this recipe needs more hops. This is the first time I am doing a porter and I am just used to the hop additions of an IPA. Does this look right? Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter ::: 1.079/1.017 (6 Gal) Grain Bill (70% Efficiency assumed) 13 lb.- 2-Row Pale Malt 2.5 lb. - Munich...

I am doing my first 10 gallon batch this weekend. Should I expect anything different from a traditional 5 gallon batch? Here's what I am brewing: Denny Conn's Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter ::: 1.079/1.017 (6 Gal) Grain Bill (70% Efficiency assumed) 13 lb.- 2-Row Pale Malt 2.5 lb. - Munich...