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I am located in east Texas and we are having an unusually mild and wet summer, relatively speaking. It's still reaching the upper 90's but we are still getting rain which is not normal. My cascades produced a ton of hops last year (1st year) but this year after an initial short flowering just...

I have a local farmer wanting to add hops to his spring planting and my local HBS may want some also so I told them I would give them one or two rhizomes from my 1st year cascade but as I started to research when to dig I haven't found much info on when to dig and what age plant is best to...

I brewed a Belgian Dubbel and decided to rack it into fresh local grown blackberries. Everything went well with the whole process. I let it sit in the secondary for about three weeks and then bottled. It has now been in the bottles about three weeks. About how long should it bottle condition...

I've got a Belgium Dubbel in the fermenter that I've been planning on racking onto fresh cherries but as I'm driving to lunch I noticed fresh locally grown blackberries for sale and the town in which I live is actually known for blackberries and they're in season so why not? Anyone have any...

The only piece of equipment I'm missing for my all grain setup is a chiller. Between new tires and my children's birthdays I'm not going to have the money for one soon. I have my grain, yeast, hops, etc and I'm wanting to brew this weekend. Is it possible to make this happen without a chiller?

I live in East Texas and decided to plant a couple hop rhizomes this year. I've got a cascade and a magnum planted in the corner of my garden at the end of a row two & 1/2' apart from one another. The cascade is already about 1 1/2' tall but the magnum has only sent up one bine and is maybe 1/2"...

I brewed an American Cream Ale kit by brewers best and I have just opened a bottle and it is already carbed up to the point of foaming over a little straight from the bottle at room temp only after 5 days of bottle conditioning. Is this normal for that kit or do I need to store these things in a...

I made my first batch according to the Caramel Apple Cider recipe found under this topic. It called to back sweeten with 5 cans of concentrate. The taste is really good but I'm getting bad heartburn after only 2 pints of this stuff. Any ideas on an alternate back-sweetening that would be less...

I was wondering if adding a cup of brown sugar to my already week old fermenting cider was a bad idea? I realize this might be a stupid question so please be gentle.

I just returned from the grocery store with all my ingredients for hard cider....except dextrose. Is it necessary to use dextrose or can I use regular sugar?

I brewed an English pale ale kit from brewers best. Bottled it a week ago. While I was bottling I tasted it and was thoroughly excited about the almost fruity hop flavor it had. Tonight I opened a test bottle and the hop flavor is gone and there's very little bitterness and almost a sour flavor...

I have only one batch bottled under my belt and have my second in the carboy. My question, is there any way to avoid the settlement in the bottles? The first batch was in the fermenter about a week and in the carboy for nearly 3 weeks before I bottled.

Ok I am about halfway through my first brew and I just found this app/chat group today. I've been reading that a secondary fermenter isn't necessary and could be detrimental. 5 days into the fermentation I transferred from my primary to a carboy as was instructed. Did I just mess up?

Just signed up for the forums and it appears its packed full of info and I'm excited to learn as much as I can from everyone's experience. My name is Daniel and I just purchased a 5 gal setup for my birthday and am about halfway through my first brew (American Amber from Brewersbest). Any...