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Hey guys! I'm growing hops for the first time this year and ran into an issue about a week ago. I'm growing Cascade, Centennial and Willamette Hops. So the issue, I live in San Francisco, and sometimes we get unexpected guests over night(like most places), cats, raccoons, etc. So last week...

I know they take a long time. I've added the Brett in January and it hasn't changed a lot yet. My only concern was that adding the dreg would cause it to ferment again while I'm away. Any chance of that?

I know they take a long time. I've added the Brett in January and it hasn't changed a lot yet. My only concern was that adding the dreg would cause it to ferment again while I'm away. Any chance of that?

Hey guys, so I brewed a beer that I added a package of Brett to with the impression that it would spur the beer, upon further research I was told that Brett won't sour it but will give it a bit of funk. So I'm going to add a bottle dreg from an Oud Bruin I have. So my question, I'm leaving...

Hey guys! I brewed a belgian pale ale that I'm going to sour over the next year or so with Brett and had a couple questions. When I brewed it I put it in my Carboy for primary fermentation without thinking that I had to transfer it into a secondary to add the Brett after the primary...

Awesome, thanks guys! I did what I said above, cooled it, took a hydrometer reading then pitched the yeast and this morning it's bubbling away. Everything seems good. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Hey guys, I made a dumb mistake last night and forgot to add the 4 lbs of liquid malt extract to my wort at the end of the boil. I noticed after I started to cool the beer(maybe 5 minutes in). When I noticed I immediately took the wort out of the ice bath and put it back on to the stove, got it...

Hey guys! I brewed a 5 gallon batch of an APA on 5/29/14 and transferred it to the secondary on 6/6/14 and was planning on bottling this weekend but I got a last minute job that I'm leaving for Thursday and will be gone for about 10 days. I won't have time to bottle before I leave. Will it be...

Hey all, I recently moved into a smaller apartment in SF and don't have a ton of room to brew. We get a lot of natural light but no direct rays from the sun, as we are in the bottom of the house and there is a deck covering our back patio, so we get light, but nothing direct(except for a tiny...

I went with a basic dry Irish stout recipe and decided to add(depending in what I can find) grade C/B maple! 2 lbs Maris Otter .5 lbs Chocolate .25 lbs Black Roast .25 lbs Roasted Barley .25 Oats -45 min steep at 155° 5 lbs Malt Extract 60 min boil .5 OZ East Kent Golding at 60 Min .5 OZ EKG...

Hi all, I'm brewing a maple stout right now and I read that I should add the maple at "High Krausen" as to avoid getting and overall woody taste. I assumed that High Krausen was when the beer was at its most active(like a day or two after pitching the yeast) but I've read some conflicting...

I wasn't really thinking and used my glass Carboy as my primary then I transferred to a plastic bottling bucket today to sit for two weeks. Will this be alright? I made sure to clean and sanitize well with out being abrasive.

I ask because I botched a batch once that I tried to customize. Do black IPAs taste okay with coffee notes? Or do you think the flavors will clash?

Hey all! I brewed a black IPA a couple months ago, I really liked it and it went over well with my family. My dad and grandpa are big beer drinkers. Im brewing with them on Sunday(their first time) and my grandpa asked if we could give it some coffee notes. I'm not exactly sure how to go about...

Oooo, I think it would be awesome to use as a primer! How hard is it to use the right amount? And is it much different then regular priming sugar, taste wise?

Honestly, I don't know how much she is getting, but I know it's more than a couple lbs. she gets a few cases full that are all a couple lbs at least. I have no idea how much though.

Hey all! So my aunt that lives in SO CAL gifted me a half pound of raw honey that she harvested from her bees(she gets a couple lbs every couple months) and its really good. I really want to make some sort of honey ale but I don't really know where to start. Is a half pound enough for anything...

Hey all, I made a dumb mistake, I didnt plan out my brewing dates properly and school and work started to get in the way. I totally forgot to take any gravity readings the last two days to make sure it wasnt still fermenting. However, I did take one today (after I already sanitized the bottles...

Well guys, I am super impatient when it comes to trying my beers. They have been carbing for about a week now. Any chance that they are done? Also, I used two grolsch flip top bottles, if I open one of those, can I re-seal it?

Didn't mean to send that yet. Do you think the mr beer bottles will work? They're plastic