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So I just picked and dried my hops and after looking at my bags I see they are crawling with aphids. I am planning on drying then more in a food dehydrator hoping the heat kills them but does any one have any advice for this issue?

So my chinook has always been in rough shape but I have never seen this before. The leaves are still green and look fine aside from the curling and stiffness. It's happening near the top and I am noticing 1-2 leave at the top of my cascade that look the same. Chinook is 3rd year and cascade is...

Hi guys! So I am brand new to this forum as I am currently working on my first mead. Its a session mead coming in around 6.5-7% abv, I have a 2.5 gal batch that was 4lbs of honey and sg was 1.054. Its been about 3 weeks now and I moved into secondary to clear about 10 days ago. Things...

Hey guys its been a while since I have been on the forum and I know if anyone can help me you guys can. So here's what I am dealing with. I have 3 plants, one cascade, one sorachi, one chinook. Cascade is in its 4th season and the other two are in their 3rd and so after doing some research...

Hi Guys I am looking for a little help from the amazing minds here, a friend and myself are entering a home brew contest up in Maine and had an idea to do a strong ale. Now the only rule for the contest is we have to use the same yeast as the brewery who is putting on the competition which...

So I sprinkled some of this around my two first years and my second year. Should I worry at all?

So working in customer service myself I appreciate good service more than some and the experience I had yesterday was unparalleled. I have ordered only one time previous from them and the thing that made me go back was their prompt delivery and top notch quality. I had ordered 2 oz of Hull...

Hi everyone, I have a question that I have been meaning to ask for a while now so being bored at work has prompted me to finally do it. So I have been doing BIAB for a little over a year now and done 15+ batches of 2.5 gallons. I would say 95% of the time I come in lower than my brewtoad...

Over the weekend I was in Portland ME at Bissell Brothers Brewing and they had a single hop Pale done with Huell Melon hops and it was amazing. I now would love to experiment with these my self as the character of them is unlike any hop I have ever experienced. So the question now is...where...

So my brew day got a little messed up my brew bag was to small for my kettle so the mash was too tight and only converted to about half what my sg should have been so I added a lb of honey to it. I plugged it into brew toad and it looks like my sg should be around what it should have been now...

So I had been bored at work today and was thinking of more ways to add hop flavor to my beers. Has anyone ever tried or heard of someone running their cooled wort through hops into the fermentation bucket? I was thinking of building a container to hold the hops that would attach to my vinyl...

So yesterday I moved a small test batch of a simple stout into secondary with some medium toast oak chips that I had soaked in vanilla bourbon. I did .5 oz of oak soaked in 1.5 tbsp of the vanilla bourbon extract into 1 gal of stout. I plan on aging for 7-10 days just wondering if this sounds...

I'm doing a pineapple saison this weekend and wanted to know how I can account for the sugars from the pineapple juice. I'll be adding it at flameout in a frozen chunk to help cool the wort as well. Right now my grain bill puts me at 1.048 OG but I guess just assume it will be higher with the...

So I tried my hand at one last night with just straight beechwood smoked malt saaz mash hops and perle bitter and flavor hops but also added smoked salt to the wort at the end likes gose hybrid style. Anyone made a rauchbier successfully with some feedback??

So last night I did my second BIAB and had tried to fix a few things I ran into with my first batch. So first problem from last time was I ended up with a little over 1/2 gal in what was supposed to be a 1 gal batch. In this brew I was told I can mash with the total water I would need for a...

So after looking around a lot and trying to gather info on making hard cider I did this. 1 gal of pasteurized cider from a local orchard with a gravity of around 1.45 I put in a 1 gal fermenter with a packet of us-05 ale yeast. Now it's just fermenting away, is this going to work or am I making...

So I got my hands on some mosaic hops the other day and decided to do a pale ale using an oz of nugget and mosaic also might dry hop with simcoe since I read that mosaic is a cross of the two nugget and simcoe. My question is does anyone have finished beer using this new hop with any feed back?

Hey guys so I have a quick question, my most recent batch of brew has a very strange inconstancy with the carbonation from bottle to bottle. The first few I opened up were perfect then the next two were flat dead flat then again yesterday it was super carbed all were conditioned the same time...

So I've noticed this happening with my last two batches that my beers are crystal clear when bottle conditioning at room temp but when I move to the fridge it becomes cloudy but still has a layer of yeast at the bottom of the bottle any idea why?

So here I am on batch number three and I am working on the recipe for a coloboration with a first time brewer. He expressed his love for bright floral citrusy ipas. Went to the store and bought some amarillo sorachi ace and citra hops and as it stands now im looking at a plan hop plan that...