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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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?

So I pulled out my extra bottle caps to count em before I left for work this morning, I was going to bottle tonight because my brew has been in the secondary for long enough but I realized that some of the bottle caps have rust on them. I think I sanitized too many last time and forgot to dry...

I brewed a strawberry hefeweizen primed with brown sugar not long ago. I think they were all bottled before December. I was not particularly happy with how they turned out so I sent a box home with my parents for my dad to 'enjoy' and distribute. A couple days ago my dad called me and said that...

So, I brewed a Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar Clone today, but during the boil I was sanitizing my fermentation bucket I realized that I had lost the little plug that goes into the top of the bucket. So instead, I decided to use my glass carboy. Now, here is the problem. I think I miscalculated and...

I have now completed two 5 gallon brews. I got both recipes from the brewing store I frequent. Now it's time to try my own beer. Or we'll, put together my own recipe. Any suggestions on how to put a recipe together?

Ive already posted once about this brew, but I am fairly excited about it. Mostly because Its the first time I actually got to customize my beer and go off the recipe list a little. However, I have a question or two, I've been searching the forums for a bit but the only searches that have...

Well, I already have my wheat beer in the primary, it's a week in and almost ready for the fruit to be added. Now, here's the question. When and how to add the fruit? First, I decided to go with frozen strawberries due to it not being strawberry season and I don't want to use an extract...

Hi everyone, I've been a part of HBT for a couple weeks now but did not get around to an introduction. I'm from Southern California, Palm Springs to be exact, but I live in San Francisco now. I've been into beer and brewing since I turned 21. Before that I was only aware of getting hammered off...

Hey all, I just finished cooling my wort and sanitizing and filling my fermenter, I was About to pour the wort in but I forgot to take the yeast out of the fridge "3-6 hours prior to using" it's a hefe ale yeast WLP300. What do I do? Should I pour the wort into the fermenter and wait to pitch...