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i have a oatmeal stout that would benefit from a lot becoming a milk oatmeal stout, i was thinking depressurized the keg and add in lactose that i boiled in with a little water and make sure its cool before i add it. any one done this?

hey guys so my wife is almost done with her masters in anthropology and she has been studying Spain a lot so she wanted me to make a batch of chicha for her. she has planted blue peruvian corn to use in the batch. any one ever tried to mash corn? we are planning on drying the corn then spraying...

ok so i have a friend thats moving out of town for a Phd program and she isn't going to have a lot of time to brew so this is what she gave me: - 2lbs kiln Black - 1lbs Carmel 90L - 1lbs chocolate malt - 3lbs amber DME - 1lbs Dark DME - 6.5lbs amber LME along with that i have a 6month...

My wife is planting a ancient blue corn that she wants to make it with. Im trying to debate how to put this recipe together. Any ideas would help.

i have a friend that is giving me honey and she wants me to make a ginger mead so i was thinking a ginger peach, ill most likely do a 1-2 gal batch i just need a better idea of how much peach and how much ginger. what i have done in the past is: per 1 gal 3lbs honey 3lbs fruit top off to...

so i have a few 2nd year plants and the 2 of the plants are growing great right now, there both centennial. but one of my problem is that squirrels keep chewing at my lines that i have the hops climbing up. so today i came home and the hop vines were on the ground because the squirrels wanted...

Just wondering on average what you guys all spend on a 1gal batch.. Sent from my SGH-T989 using Home Brew mobile app

So I just racked my first mead into secondary to let sit ubtil.it clears again. From all of the racking and leaving the yeast and a some mead still in the carboy. How much volume loss do you think you get from a 1gal batch. Do you even notice the loss? Sent from my SGH-T989 using Home Brew...

looks like its a new hop that hops direct is going to have, it sounds a lot like citra. but if any one has used it let me know what you think im thinking next hop order i might get a pound BELMA™ Hop Leaf New 2013 Crop Alpha Acid 11.6% Dual-Purpose Hops Direct, LLC and...

ok i made my first meed 1.3 lbs Mixed honey 1.47lbs Blackberry honey 1 gal Filtered water 1/4tsp Yeast nutrient 1pack Lalvin yeast 1.7 lbs Mixed berries (in secondary) frozen 1tsp Sorbistat (use when fermentation is done) 1.6 lbs Strawberries frozen date made:1-18-14 OG: 1.060...

well i made my first mead a few weeks ago its a mixed berry mead 3lbs honey 3lbs fruit did a small 1.5 gal batch so i didnt add enough yeast nutrient because when i racked into secondary i did a reading and it was at only 4.5abv so i added some more into the carboys and the airlock started...

Ok I have an idea. To reciralate the wort could I set the mash ton to drain into my HLT the from the HLT to a pump back to the mash ton. Add a little heat to the HLT to keep a stabe temp ot when I need to raise the temp. I dont have a coil in my HLT is that an issue? I was thinking more this...

i have been looking at getting quick disconnects for my hoses. i have been looking here http://www.bargainfittings.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=51 is this just a preference thing? or is one work better for different set up then the other?

Ok so I have been brewing beer for a few years and thought that I should try and make a berry meed. Im thinking a small batch about 1-2 gal I would like it to no be to dry. I need some advice: Per gal of meed how much honey do I need? How much head space will I need during fermentation? Im...

well i was thinking you can make meed with honey why not try and make it with maple syrup ? any one tried this?

I brewed a doppelbock Saturday it was a all grain brew and I spaced out and over sparged. So I stopped the flow into my boil kettle when it hit 7 gal but there was about 2-3gal left in the mashton. So I ran that into another pot but at the time I didnt have a free carboy or yeast. So its siting...

Im thinking about brewing 10gal of CA common late into the night on the 31st. Anyone brewing that night im just hoping I dont get rain.

well i have been thinking of doing a doppelbock this winter and trying to decide if thats a good choice, i have a basement that is in the 50's right now. how long should i let it "lager" for in secondary? im doing a CA lager (CA common) next week but i would like to do some form of a bock. i...

ok well i scored a black friday deal on chinook hops so now i have 2lbs of them and trying to figure out what i should brew with them, im noticing that they are fairly high alpha (14.3), but i also like the taste of them, im assuming that this can be used as a bittering and as a aroma hop. and...

I got a really good deal online so I have 3.5 pounds beeing shipped to me as I type this. What is the best way to store them so they last. I can keep them in my kegarator that's around 40F or if I need to clear room in my freezer.