Search results

I have been brewing for some time now but I had to stop completely for 8 months because temporarily I moved to an apartment, now I am back to a house so I want to start again. Before moving I did three batches to have homebrew in my apartment...the thing is all the three ones started...

I had aninfection in my last batch, which I noticed only after weeks in bottle (now my stout is almost undrinkable and it gushes), the thing is I didn't do anything special between this batch and the last one, now when I opened the fermenter to do dry hopping I found that the smell is a bit off...

7 weeks ago I bottled a brown ale, I started drinking it at 17 days of bottled(I dry hopped it so I wanted to drink it fresh)... and between week 4 and 6 the beer started gushing, and it became progressively sour... now every week after that it becomes more and more sour and it gushes every time...

It's just a trash can with bags covering the lid because it was dirty... :D

Today I shared with my family an IPA that I was very proud of, it got 4 place in a BJCP contest(a judge gave it 42 points, the rest of them gave me around 36-38). I only had a few left ... they ask me if they could try my beer, I say yes and the first thing someone asks me "can you serve...

I've been posting for 6 months now(~15 days after my first batch) and I just realised that I never introduced myself. My name is Fernando, I brew with my brother. So far 9 batches. I love this hobby, it's so challenging, complete(I've learnt so many things, from chemistry to physics) and...

First I want to thank you all, I mean this forum has helped me a lot, I don't know how much info and tips I've received from you guys, I've learned a lot from you. I inscribed my fifth batch to a BJCPish home brew contest and I got 4th place! out of 42 beers mine was 4th! and the best thing...

"Imperial sticke" Its quite interesting to see how a recipe is done in bigger scales, and I am a bit surprised by the short times. Any thoughts on the recipe? http://szot.cl/recipe_imperial_oaked_sticke_web_english.doc

I am going to participate in my first BJCP contest. Some time ago I brewed a beer I liked a lot and the thing is, I have no clue what style it is. Castle Pilsner 7.7 pounds Castle Munich 1.1 pounds Castle munich wheat 4 pounds Chinook 0.3 oz 65 minutes Hallertau mittelfruh 1 oz 30...

I don't understand much chemistry but I got the water report from my company... well the thing is, they don't measure Sodium or Calcium(they measure a lot of things though), I sent them another email asking them for data and they replied me with the hardness of the water. Here is the data I...

I want to make a 5 gallons 1.066 OG gravity beer, mix it with 5 gallons of water so I get ten gallons of 1.033 beer. Is it possible? make first a concentrated wort and then just water it down so I get more beer? I want to do it this way because I have equipment for doing 5 gallons, but I...

Can it be considered an ESB? Everything else is English. Also I didnt get a crazy attenuation(1.035OG 1.009 FG).

I have a few questions for you. First some data about it. It's going to be a small BJCP contest(only people from the university can participate) and it will be in one month. Sadly I was told about it only 4 days ago so I couldn't brew something special for it(I usually left my beer for 5...

I brew beer. I make this thread so maybe we can share tips about stores and also to see if there are others Chileans here.

Yes I know, another infection thread but in my 6 batches I've never seen something like this. I am specially concerned because I reused the yeast of this batch for two others... so I have 5 gallons bottled plus 10 more gallons fermenting using the same yeast... My bottles have something like...

Brown ale, all grain. I was finishing fly sparging when my brother yells me that my parrot flew away, so I just left the brewing and ran to look for my parrot... after several hours of looking for Alcachofa(my parrot) it became dark so we decided to restart the search tomorrow morning. So my...

Exactly one month I brewed a dubbel, all grain, pretty standard one with 1 pound of home made candy sugar, initial gravity 1.064, 5 gallons batch. I re used yeast from a previous batch(US-05), but I think I probably underpitched(first time I used slurry)... well the thing is that after 5 days...

I mostly use dry yeast, and I can't understand the calculation... can you put it simple for me? when I need to use two packets in a 5 gallons batch? (more than 1.055? 1.060? 1.065?)

I bought a new hose for my bottling equipment, and the thing is, the plastic flavour of it won't go away... I already tried lemon juice, sodium bicarbonate, vinegar and a strong liquor mixed with tabasco. Do you have any idea how to get rid of that flavour?

So I tried to save the yeast from my last batch following this(https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Yeast_washing). Well, things didn't work so well, first I let sit my big jar for 20 minutes but after that I couldn't see any separation of liquids, so I just left it in the fridge and left...