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i have a tapcooler bottle filler and really love it. way easier to user than a beer gun. the only think i don't like is that is is a bit slow and having to hold the bottle can be a pain. i saw that there is a hands free mount that hooks to the filler and holds a bottle into place. i wanted...

when you say it spends a year souring, do you mean souring in fermenter or in the bottle? ideally i'd like to not tie up a ferementer for a year if i can help it, which is why i was trying get an idea of how long brett fermentation takes before it can safely be bottled.

hello, brett first timer question. i'm planning to brew a saison with saison yeast and then add brettanomyces after primary fermentation is completed. i am planning to bottle the batch so that i don't have to worry about cross contamination and having to buy a keg and tap just for this batch...

thanks for all the info! i always keep my dry yeast in the fridge so not really a big change.

hello, i recently started doing more 2.5 gallon 1/2 batches. i just dont drink as much as i used to but still enjoy the process of brewing and like having a variety of styles on hand to drink. i use dry yeast for probably 75% of my brews and it feels wasteful and unnecessary to use a whole...

Hello, i have plans to brew a gin barrel aged saison in the near future. i was planning on bottling it and thought about possibly adding the dregs of a brett beer. i thought the best way would be adding it in the bottling bucket to reduce the amount of items that could be contaminated. i know...

thanks for all the advice. Found the issue: i had a bad gas in connector that wasnt fitting tight. It works fine normally, but the gas line was twisted/pushed in a way that made it leak. I tested in on other kegs and it did the same thing the line was pushed. threw it out and replaced with...

HELP!!! Ive been kegging for two years and have started having issues with a leak in my co2 line. Ive tried spraying the connects with foamy star san and cannot find it. i have a 3 keg system in a keezer if that helps. Possible issue: i did accidentally drop my co2 regular a couple feet. No...

just brewed an ipa with this strain. was only able to get the temp around 85-90. OG was 1.076 and FG was 1.021, which i thought was a little high but doesn't taste to sweet. fermented for 2 weeks. anyone get this high of a FG?

i've had this issue with a 12% ABV barley wine i made in november 2018. i bottled and underprimed a little becase my total end volume was around 4.25-4.5 gallons. after no carbonation by March 2019, i opened the bottles, added 1/2 carbonation tab and a pinch of bottles yeast...

i just brewed an IPA with hornindal kviek yeast. still waiting for it to carbonate in the keg but it's pretty tasty. i've seen people selling dried kviek yeasts and read about the history of it being harvested on knotty wooden rings and dried for future use. i was reading at the website below...

i wanted to check how long you can keep a yeast cake as long as you keep an inch or so of beer on top of it? i've tried yeast harvesting about 5 times and 4 of those times i've ended up with the yeast getting infected. i would boil jars and lids for 15 minutes and still had issue, though was...

thanks for the info. the barrel was an impulse buy and didn't realize how much work it would be and that it can only be used a few times. gonna do a big ass imperial stout next time to make the most of it before the flavors start to fade too much.

Im finishing a porter im aging in a 5 gallon rye whiskey barrel. Im doing a short term age (also known as ‘resting’ i think?) and plan to only do about 3 weeks before kegging. Im planning to make a big bad stout in a few months and want to see what i should do to clean and help preserve the...

Correction: this is actually the 4th collection of kolsch yeast. the first collection of the unwashed batch looks fine. double checked and realized this was the 4th gen harvest of the kolsch i started harvesting. pitched it. for the record, it smelled like really good sauerkraut, which...

I was checking on some harvested yeast (white labs kolsch) and found one of the two jars like this. puffy, opaque white foam that also looks a bit granulated. Guessing its an infection but wanted input. Other jar looks fine but i'm wondering if i can still use it for my next cream ale i'll be...

NOTE: i only make ales, so technique above should not be confused w/ brewing a lager (though i can see how it might seem that way)

Got a mini-fridge w/ temp controller about a year ago for temp controlled fermentation. typically i will bring the wort down to about 5 degrees below the lowest temp recommended for the yeast strain used to compensate for if the wort is a higher temp inside the fermenter. i then pitch the...

converted to a kegerator about 6-8 months ago. was worried for a minute that it might be just as much work as bottling but have to say it was worth it. also love not having to wait as long for stuff to carbonate, especially higher gravity beers.

thanks! morebeer didn't specify their nibs were roasted so was not sure. also gonna use some abuelita tabs to get the other mexican chocolate spice flavors. thought this might give it some nice deep chocolate taste.