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My lager fridge called it quits last night. I will be replacing it soon, unfortunately this occurred during an active lager process for a 5 gallon batch of Vienna Lager. I completed d-rest and transferred the beer to a secondary vessel for prolonged lagering. Fermentation is fully done...

Hoping you guys can verify whether or not this yeast step up plan will work... Knowns -Brewing 5 gallons of 1.050 lager -Need 350B cells to do the job -Have a single lager smack pack dated 8/13 which should have 86B viable cells -Equipment available is 2L Erlenmeyer flask and stir plate...

Brewed morebeer's extract barleywine kit: http://morebeer.com/products/barley-wine-extract-beer-kit.html Ended up with an OG of 1.080. Aerated for 1 minute from O2 canister. Pitched 1.4 packs of rehydrated US-05 as per mrmalty. Fermentation temps got away for me a bit for the first day...

Sorry moved to fermentation forum...

While topping of some water in my boil last night, I reached for the wrong gallon jug of liquid. Instead of pouring in about 12oz of fresh spring water, I poured in 12oz of diluted Star San mixture. A careless mistake which was no doubt aided by the quantity of homebrew I was enjoying while...

Brewing the "Dead Ringer" extract kit tonight. This kit is a Bell's Two Hearted clone. Being my 3rd brew, I am considering trying something new -- late extract addition. From what I understand, late extract method requires tweaking the hops due to higher hop utilization. I am doing 3...

Brewed my second batch of homebrew two nights ago -- a 5 gallon American Amber Ale extract kit. OG was 1.058. I put in one smack pack of Wyeast 1056 directly (no starter). Checked fermentation at 24 hours and there was significant krausen and blowoff activity. Felt that things were going...

sorry double post