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Hi, I made a barley wine that sat in a carboy for 5 years (I was out of the country and not brewing for a while). I believe the airlock dried up for a few months at some point... I bottled it, but it's heavily oxidized yet it has a lot of positive elements too. I was listening to the...

Hi, I made a nice ale that I really like and I'm thinking of submitting it in a competition I'll be attending soon. I'm not sure as to what style it should be submitted into. Here's the recipe: Batch Size: 25 L / 6.6 gal 4 kg Pilsner Malt 1.5 kg Pale Ale Malt 0.2 kg Weyermann...

Hi, I want to brew two batches one after the other. I only have one kettle to heat my water and boil. So I thought to start mashing the 2nd batch while the first is already mashing. it would take 2.5-3 hours from that point until I sparge it (using the water heated by cooling the first...

Hi, I started brewing in July 2007. My brew log tells me that I made the only mead I ever tried on Oct 4th 2007. It was a simple mead. a small batch: 1kg honey 3L mineral water black tea and fresh lemon juice (not sure what amount these were). OG = 1.100 I was new to brewing and didn't even log...

My hands are shaking... I think about brewing every day.... forced rehab is hard.... too much studying, no time left for brewing :(

Hi all, I was wondering what are the different yeast species used and what are their different traits. I know the common ale yeast is S . Cerevisiae , and I think the lager one is S. pastorianus. and then there is Brett, too. What about S. Bayanus ? and generally how strict are the...

Hi, When you mash a stout with flaked barley, can you just do an infusion mash with the malt , or do I need to do some other process? same Q for crushed raw barley and oatmeal. Thanks

Hi , I'm ordering some stuff for myself from northernbrewer.com , and I want to order some stuff for a friend of mine that wants to start brewing. He already has some basic equipment. I want to order a grain bag, to use for steeping 2-3lb of malt. this is what they have...

I want to start adding gypsum to my brewing water (My water needs more SO4). I'm not in the US, and the homebrew shops here don't sell water adjustment minerals. What other kinds of shops/products should I look for, for food-grade gypsum? thanks

Ca: 57 Mg: 29 Na: 112 Cl: 205 SO4: 63 HCO3: 182 this is my water profile. I understand that balance is strongly affected by the ratio Cl/SO4 You can see my Cl is very high. Most water adjustment tool show that this water profile is good for malty amber beer. I find that quite true -...

Hi A friend of mine has started brewing. He made a TINY 1gal batch from an IPA kit and he said the beer was quite bad. I didn't make too many extract batches, since I went AG after a few. However, he did ask me to formulate an IPA recipe for him. 1gal batch IPA: -------------- 0.2...

Hi, I made an oktoberfest with the following recipe: Batch Size: 25 liters Volume Boiled: 30 liters Mash Efficiency: 73 % Total Grain/Extract: 6.50 kg. Total Hops: 30.0 g. Ingredients...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8380412.stm did anybody try this ?

yesterday I bottled an oktoberfest lager. It was made pils, Vienna and Munich, OG = 1.055 , yeast was Fermentis W-34/70. fermentation schedule was 2 weeks at 50F , then a day at 68F for diacetyl rest, then, over a week I slowly lowered to 35F. Then, I racked to a secondary carboy and left to...

Hi, I had a thought lately, while building an ESB and a brown porter recipes. Basically, some of the recipes for these two styles are very similar (mainly pale/MO + some medium/dark caramel), except , of course , the dark malt. I thought about making 6 gal of ESB. then I'll move to bottling...

I made a belgian golden ale, 5.6 gallon 11# / 5kg pils , weyermann 0.66# / 0.3kg carahell 0.66# / 0.3kg light munich 2.2# / 1kg corn sugar 1oz /30 g. Hallertau Tradition (Pellets, 7.1 %AA) boiled 60 minutes. 1oz /30 g. Tettnanger (Pellets, 4.1 %AA) boiled 15 minutes...

I usually put a big grill pan in the freezer at the beginning of the brew day. then I pour the sample, about 150ml / 5 oz , into the cold pan and put it back in the fridge. since these pans are made out of thick iron they have a hi thermal mass , plus the ridges giving more contact surface to...

Hi, I've brewed about 25 batches by now. Lately, I noticed something about my pails. My first pail had formed an off-white rough strips on the inside, mainly around mid-height. Initially I thought these were scratches from stacking pails in storage, but now my second pail starts to show the...

I've been reading about FWH, and I wanna try it out. I have a brown porter recipe (6.6 gal) that I want to use it on. I'm going to use 2.1 oz EKG 5.1% AA. I use BeerTools.com for formulation, and it shows for this amount of hops, boiled for 60 mins, about 40 IBU . That's higher then what...

Hi, currently I have a thermostat that cuts off the main power supply to the fridge, externally. This means that both my thermostat and the original bimetal are working. This isn't a problem until you want constant results below 45F , and the bimetal low sensitivity gets in the way. So...