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I have been brewing for a year now. I am having a slight brain fart. I am making an all-grain moose drool clone. So there is a lot of dark malts. I am wondering if I am supposed to crush those dark specialty grains? Or leave them whole? For some reason I thought I read somewhere that grinding...

I currently keep three kegs inside a spare fridge in the garage. I am looking to build a keezer when I can find a chest freezer for the right price. Once I get the freezer, I would like to use the spare fridge as a fermentation chamber so that I can brew any type of beer all year round. My bday...

Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone on here has brewed this before? What are your thoughts? I ordered this all grain kit and am planning to brew soon. I was just curious as to the peach flavoring additive. Should I add the whole bottle? Half? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Ok so for the last four batches or so of homebrew I have made, I have had a strange aftertaste. The bet way I can describe it is as bubble gum. I can't tell if it is coming from my kegs or if it is something in my brewing process... Anybody have any experience or ideas as to what is causing this...

I have been brewing for a year now and made the switch to all grain about 6 months ago. I have been looking to invest in a refractometer. At the same time, I am going to begin my first year in beekeeping starting this spring. And I would want a refractometer that reads moisture level so I would...

I am looking to back sweeten a batch of cider. I want to use cider concentrate, and I want to keg it. I will eventually bottle out of the kegs well. I am wondering if there is anything other than pasteurizing or campdem tablets that would stop fermentation? I have lost faith in campdem when I...

I have just acquired 7 kegs. I only have enough room in my fridge to accommodate 3 at a time. If I were to fill all seven, I know I am supposed to keep them under pressure, but I was wondering if there was any way that i could carbonate the beer in the keg, then take it out of the fridge after...

I was jw if I need to do anything to kill or suppress the yeast if I am going to bottle from the keg? I realize that the yeast left in suspension will become active again as the beer warms back up, and I know if fermentation is completely finished before I keg I should be ok, I just want to take...

I brewed a raspberry wheat all grain kit from Austin home brew. They give u a little 2 oz bottle of raspberry flavored extract toads right before bottling. I just got into kegging so this will b my 3rd batch into the keg. The instructions say to add the flavoring into the bottling bucket. Since...

I am looking for a mill that will crack my grain for brewing, but I want it to also be able to grind wheat into homemade flour. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions? I know it will probably b kinda expensive, but I'm going half and half in on the price with a friend who want to grind...

Any suggestions? I have tried soaking in a baking soda and water solution and that didnt help at all. Soaking in oxyclean right now... Doubt it will help... Any other thought or ideas... Other than switching my tubing type? Thanks! :)

Hello, 5 weeks ago I brewed the honey wheat extract kit from Austin homebrew. It is currently in the keg, ( only my second time ever kegging, first was the Austin homebrew fat tire clone that I brewed three days prior to the honey wheat and it tastes awesome!) but it has kind of a funky taste...

I am looking for tubing to go from my cooler mash tun into the kettle. I was wondering what type of tubing I need to use? Is vinyl ok? Does it produce any off flavors?

Ok, I'm sorry I know this is probably annoying, but I want to build a mashtun out of a cooler, and I saw a post that had all the parts listed out a few days ago but I can't find it anywhere! Can anyone show me a link?!? Thanks!

I just received my fat tire clone from Austin homebrew and I am looking to brew it later this afternoon. I got the extract kit bc I am just not super comfortable with all grain yet... So after opening up the box and reading the instructions provided, I realize that the instructions are made for...

I am contemplating on buying the fat tire clone from Austin homebrew, and I was just curious as to if anyone has made the kit before and what the final product was like? Would u recommend? I am going to have to do the extract kit bc I can't really accommodate any other method at this point in...

Ok so I am trying to make homemade wine coolers. There isn't a whole lot of info out there about the process, so I apologize for my questions if they seem like nonsense... I started out with some store bought juice (mixture of various kinds...) and I added some dry champagne yeast. It has...

My recipe calls for both, American, but my hbs only has breiss... What's the difference?

I LIKE BEER... with that obvious statement out of the way, I am looking to brew another batch, but I am a college student and seeing how it is the middle of the second semester, I am already very low on funding... This is where my question comes in. I am wondering if anyone had a decent...

I brewed a blonde ale kit last weekend. It fermented quickly this past week and I transferred it to secondary yesterday on some knox gelatin for a quick clearing. I have two issues.. i think... 1. I just drank my first blond (store bought) tonight and realized that my blonde smelled...