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Scenario: Brewed first Lager, Primary 4 days @50 degrees. Racked to Secondary and Lagered @35-38 degrees, didn't get around to trying to bottle it until now.... over 3 months later. Questions: do I need to add fresh yeast? If so does it have to be the same strain? Can I revive some of the...

I blanked during my hop additions for my Imperial Stout and left a whole ounce of EK Goldings out!:drunk: According to beersmith my IBUs will be only 34.7 when they need to be above fifty...my wort is cooling as I type and I am wondering if boiling the hops on the stove with a little dme would...

This is just for fun... but who knows. Maybe we can come up with some winners and we all can make the leap to all-grain without having to sleep in the garage with our new setup!

I wanted this one to be black as night with a thick mouthfeel and pack a wallop. I added some dark brown sugar and blackstrap molasses to dry it out a bit. Any suggestions? The guy at the LHBS gave me a weird look when i put all the ingredients up on the counter. :confused: I am pretty excited...

Clogged airlock while at work. Wife sent me the photos along with a few choice expletives. I cleaned it up and replaced with a blowoff tube and fermentation continued pretty vigorously. Everything looks and smells good as a new sanitized airlock has replaces the tubing now that thing have...

Alright guys and gals I may be trying to get too cute with this one but my long awaited brew day is approaching and I am making two styles: a red ale and an oatmeal stout. I was planning on using WLP004 IRISH ALE YEAST. I was at my lhbs and I thought since I have a few days before brew day(Sat)...

I have a dos equis clone lager going and have kept the temp around 45-50 consistently during primary fermentation. I had a long lag time starting off (4 days) and now it's been about 15 days since then and I've still got airlock activity and a good krausen layer on top. The recipe says to rack...

The Krausen has finally fallen in my irish red and I am attempting my first cold crash. It was 32 degrees last night so I put it outside and because it's Feb. in New England I didn't expect it to be 50 today.. will It be ok when the temp drops back down or should i transfer to my secondary for...

Just wondering about the advantages of using one or the other... or both? The only homebrew I've brewed/bottled/drank was an oktoberfest recipe from my LHBS that called for both amber LME and light DME. I tweeked the recipe a bit to make it my own but it came out great. The red Ale I have in...

Hey guys, I'm a brand new brewer, I brewed an oktoberfest (extract) with great success, so I'm hoping to keep the momentum rolling. I just brewed up a wort and when I went to pitch the yeast (white labs WLP028, Edinburgh) to my dismay I noticed the bottle expired in sept. It's now the beginning...