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Hello, Making a blueberry lemon melomel. First mead ever. I added 3 lbs honey, energizer, nutrients, and 1 lbs of frozen blueberries to the primary. That sat for exactly 2 weeks in primary. I had the blueberries in a pantyhose sock in primary. After I transferred to the secondary I noticed...

Hello everyone! I've made plenty of beer and such but this will be my first mead/melomel. I've tried to find info on this site, youtube, and the internet with lots of mixed ingredients listed. I just need some formulation help. 1 gallon batch. 3 pounds honey, 1 pound frozen blueberries 2...

Hello forum folk, I've got a quick question for you. I'm about to brew a one gallon batch of a hard ginger ale. The recipe calls for 2 oz of rolled oats oatmeal but my local homebrew store sold me flaked oats instead. Will there be any difference in the final product? Is this a problem...

Just got a dark star burner and a tall boy 8 gallon brew pot and I don't want to char the bottom when I brew. Is there a trick to avoid this? I used a friends pot and burner for my last batch and that charred stuff makes a huge mess....

So I keep tossing around the idea of making a herbal tasting beer... Maybe just a small 1-2 gallon batch. I think I want a taste very similar to Ricola cough drops. I even thought about using the actual cough drops as priming drops per bottle... So how could I achieve this kind of flavor profile...

I dry hopped in secondary in a better bottle so now there is some dried hop sludge along the top of it that I can't rinse away. Even after letting it sit overnight in hot soapy water. I know I can't use a bottle or carboy brush cause they will scratch the soft plastic surface. So what's the...

So I was at the local Ross and saw these sunflower seeds totally organic. No preservatives. Could I brew with them? I've heard they are great for head retention and a bit of flavor. I'm still an extract brewer so would I steep them with specialty grains? Thanks guys

Ok so my electric stove has a hard time getting my wort up to boil so it takes a long time. My question is the recipe I followed last night called for a late addition of 6lbs of LME at 15 minutes left and another addition of 2lbs of corn sugar at 5 minutes left in the boil. I pulled the pot off...

Hey all! I brewed a really big beer last night and added too much top off water. The beer was a 5 gallon batch with a target O.G. of 1.086 and due to my top off addition I only hit 1.072 or 1.073.... Will this beer taste really off (watered down) due to this? I did make a starter with a half cup...

So I brewed a pale ale that I added .37 oz of fresh lime zest and .50 oz of fresh mint at 6 minutes left in the boil. I'm going to dry hop for a week with citra. My question is I bought some kaffir lime leaves and I'm thinking about adding a couple of them to my priming sugar solution as I boil...

Ok I'm about to bottle and just realized that the hops I dry hopped with are still floating around loose. How can I leave them behind when I transfer to the bottling bucket? Use my grain bag over the suction side of my racking cane? Pellet hops btw. Thanks!

Ok guys my wife accidentally bought me two of the same recipe kits so it's experimenting time! It's a Chinook pale ale dry hopped with citra. I brewed the first one as is now I want to brew the second one with something wild. I'm thinking either lime and fresh mint or lemon and fresh mint or...

Ok guys my wife accidentally bought me two of the same recipe kits so it's experimenting time! It's a Chinook pale ale dry hopped with citra. I brewed the first one as is now I want to brew the second one with something wild. I'm thinking either lime and fresh mint or lemon and fresh mint or...

Hi all! I found this lemon rosemary wheat beer recipe in the spice/herb/ vegetable beer section and was hoping someone could help me convert it from all grain to partial mash(mini mash) or extract+ specialty grains. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=345352 Thanks you guys. I don't...

So I soaked my better bottle with 2oz of bleach and 5 gallons of water for 24 hrs. I have rinsed the crap out of it and can't get the smell out of it. Also it appears that it discolored the very center of the better bottle. So my question is did I ruin this Better bottle? I need it here in like...

Ok so I moved my skeeterpee to secondary last night and added my sparkloid and kmeta and potassium sorbate. I think I messed up my sparkloid . I boiled it for 5 minutes as per directions. But I let it cool quite a bit before I poured it into my secondary. I then racked my skeeterpee ontop of the...

Sorry I'm long-winded! So I brewed this rebel rye from northern brewer on May 25th waited about 3 and a half weeks and moved to secondary. The recipe calls for toasted oak cubes and 16ozs of rye whiskey to be added to secondary. So I soaked the oak cubes in the rye whiskey in a Tupperware to...

My skeeter pee gravity reading is only showing 1.063 when target was 1.070 s.g. but my sample is still a bit warm. Is that why it's off? It's warm to the touch but that's it.

So I have this rebel rye porter from northern brewer that I brewed on May 25th. Been in there for 24 days now and no airlock activity in a long time. Did not take an OG reading when I brewed it. Carried it into another room last night and woke up to it fermenting fairly consistently this...

So I got a smack pack of wyeast 3068 weihenstephan for a heffe. I've used vials of liquid yeast but never a smack pack. Is it worth doing a starter with this thing? It will still be beneficial won't it? Thanks guys