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Brewed a stout a couple weeks ago, should come in around 8% haven't checked the FG yet. I want to add something to it and I am thinking of dry hopping with Reese's Puffs cereal before I keg it. I have read a couple of breweries have done this successfully most seem to make milk stouts. Anyone...

I ordered 2 keg used keg lids on ebay to rplace lids on my pin locks with lids that have a PRV. The lids were in rough condition and I had to clean them and replace the PRVs the old ones seemed to have a thicker spring and bottom, where as the replacement valves I got are smaller and leak...

I have developed a real love for rye in beer, and I also really enjoy a good porter, so I'm not sure why this beer has not come about sooner, but it is here now and that's all that matters. This is my favorite porter, and maybe one of the best beers I have ever made. Ingredients 3.5lbs...

I normally brew beer I also normally don't use any bugs in my brewery however I go to Michigan a couple times a year to see family and have grown fond of some of the ciders Virtue has been producing. In particular Percheron, unfortunately Virtue doesn't distribute in my neck of the woods. So...

I have been a homebrewer for a few years now, I even used to write some articles here on HBT. I also used to be pretty overweight.... About a year ago I got very into fitness and started lifting weights 5-6 days a week, and changed my diet entirely. As you can imagine my brewing took quite a...

I am trying to put together a recipe for a smoked porter to brew this weekend, this is the first smoked porter I have ever done, the Briess spec sheet says to use 30-60% I was planning on 40% the LHBS says that is way too much and that I should only need a few oz of smoked malt to get the flavor...

A year and a half of buying parts piece by piece, but it's finally done I have a functional kegerator, now if only I had some beer kegged up to go with it, that's the next project... Question, I am using mfl disconnects for my gas and liquid, however I have not ordered washers to fit inside...

Okay so I have finally gotten what I believe to be my first infection after almost 3 years of brewing, and I don't know what I should do now. I brewed a lovely ordinary bitter about 5 weeks ago with WLP002, I left it in primary for 3 weeks checked the FG it was spot on 1.013 down from 1.040, so...

Not quite sure which forum to post this in, but I just bottled a batch of saison and noticed a grey discoloration on the bottom of the bucket when I was cleaning it. I have never seen this before, so I thought I might ask the community if they have any ideas, it doesn't seem to be coming off

Someone told me about this & I finally had a chance to check it out, very interesting http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/american-shakes-up-the-german-beer-scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csJw1DCyObA

First off let me say I know nothing about kegging and am jumping in blind b/c I am sick of bottling... I have been assembling various parts and I think I am getting close I just thought I might check with some people who know about kegging to see if I am missing anything. Here is what I have...

After a winter of high alcohol brews and spring around the corner I decided it was time for a nice light & refreshing beer that I can enjoy a few of on a nice warm day. I have also been experimenting with hop-stands & love the results I am getting. I couldn't be happier with the results of this...

Okay my mom owns the house across the street from her and wants me to move into it. Without going into too much detail I'm 28, single & own my own home already, the house she wants me to take, is slightly bigger than my current house, has an above ground pool, a pool table, a privacy fence and...

I got a vile of Saison II that expired last November from my LHBS I have stepped it up & have enough to pitch into a batch... I brewed an American IPA a couple weeks ago it isn't carbed up yet, but the hydrometer sample tasted promising anyway, I was thinking about brewing another batch of the...

I don't normally brew extract but I bought a Mr.Beer Kit off Craigslist for $15 so I can do small 2 gallon test batches in it from time to time. The kit had not been used and still had the can of hopped extract in it and a bag of booster? The extract is a pale ale & the can expired last month I...

I have been thinking about doing small 1gal batches to harvest the yeast cake to pitch in larger batches, I figure if I am going to do a starter anyway why not just make beer?:rockin: A couple of questions though: Would this restrict the gravity on my small batches? I know a normal starter is...

7lbs 2-Row Pale Malt 2lbs Marris Otter 12oz Caramel/Crystal 60L 8oz Chocolate Malt 8oz Flaked Oats .75oz Cascade 7.5%aa (60 min) .5oz Perle 7.5%aa (45 min) .5oz Perle 7.5%aa (30 min) .5oz Cascade 7.5%aa (5 min) Whirfloc @ 15min 1oz Cascade Dry Hop (7 days) 1Pkg US-05 90 min...

I have 2 dogs and I keep them gated in one area of the house to avoid hair all over my house. Last night I was bottling, I bottle my beer in my hallway that is on the other side of my small 2 bedroom house, normally I Swiffer the floor before I bottle but I just did it 2 days ago and it was late...

I was watching a Beersmith Podcast from a couple years ago #39 with Gordon Strong and he suggested steeping any specialty grain that has no diastatic power. He compares using darker roasted malt in the mash to coffee in the way that the flavor is better and less harsh & acidic when the coffee...

In the summer time the ground water is much too hot to chill my wort using my immersion chiller, so I usually chill it as much as I can and usually around 100 or so then go ahead and transfer it to my fermenter and put it in my fermchamber to chill the rest of the way, and pitch my yeast the...