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I've been buying lite beer 30 cans for $19. Nice yes, but flavorless. I miss my homebrew. What I'd like to do is pour the cold beer and add a bit of hops water that I would keep in a jar in the fridge. I was thinking of duplicating the way I brew, hops at 1 hour boil and again at 15...

I have had my wort in a carboy for a day now and there is a good half inch of sediment o the bottom. Would it be wise (or would it have been wise a day ago?) to siphon it into the final bottling bucket? My bucket has a hole to fit the air lock. That way I will 1.) not have to stir up the...

Looking for ideas that will overcome my clumsiness. For my (yet another) NEXT hydrometer I'd like to insert some foam, rubber o-rings, etc. in the bottom of the glass holding tube so when I drop the hydrometer in it won't hit the bottom and shatter. Or glue something to the bottom end of the...

I brought home two 48 oz bottles of Welch's Concord and I'll get two more to go with my four empty 1/2 gallon iced tea jugs. That will give me 15 oz each jug of head space for the fermentation. Instead of airlocks I was thinking of just cracking the tops they came with. From my readings here if...

I'd like to make some shine from sugar and/or corn and I'd like to do it using charcoal. Any thoughts on how to set up the kettle, regulate the heat and how much charcoal will be needed for 5 gallons of mash?

In my 5 gal BIAB, the main problem is that my fermenter is filled with nasties. I think what happened is there was a rip in the mesh bag I used for hops but it could be other things, too. When I was sucking on the siphon to the fermenter and the beer got to my lips there was so much trash in...

My bottles have plenty of foam when I pour, too much really. Then after a few minutes the foam disappears and the glass of beer looks like a glass of iced tea. I used gelatin, FG was 1.02. In the bottling bucket I added table sugar, lactic acid and yeast. But that's history, right now I need to...

I've been thinking of making a hops tea. Researching, there are suggestions about how much hops to water but its not clear if the hops are fresh or dried. So, for sake of discussion, say you like 1 oz bittering and 1oz flavor and 1 oz aroma. How would you make a hops tea to substitute for...

I just bottled a BIAB pale ale and would like to better ensure its clarity. I have limited space in the refrigerator, can I start putting say, three bottles at a time in there and then put them back in the 65-75 deg garage? Would that do much to clarify the beer when I finally got around to...

I just pitched the yeast and realized that once again I forgot to add the Irish Moss. The beer is quite cloudy. So I put some IM in a cup of water and set it to boil, figuring to add it to the fermenter tonight, Now I'm wondering - should I just add the liquid, avoiding some extra mess on...

When I read that yeast can double every 90 minutes... seems like you could take just 1% of your usual dry yeast pitching quantity (0.11 grams from a 11 gram pack), drop it into a cup of old wort and in 10 hours it will have expanded back up to your usual pitching quantity. If you have timed...

If I add a week or two to the beer's time in fermenter and subtract that week from the time in the bottle, does it make a difference?

I had brewed up two batches, 10 lbs of 2-row each, and after eight days in the fermenter decided to bottle them both. This was three hours ago and, as you will see, it was not a good time for decision making for me. I added about 1-1/4 cup of sugar (way too much) to each batch and bottled...

10 lbs of year-old 2-row, double crushed 1/2 lb crystal 1 oz Mt. Hood (6.6%a) at boil 1/2 oz Fuggle at finish Safale 05 1 tsp gelatin on day 4 of ferment 10 lbs of year-old 2-row, double crushed 1/2 lb crystal 1/2 oz Fuggle at boil 1/2 oz Fuggle at finish Safale 04 Used BIAB. The...

I ran some grain through a WonderMill I picked up for cheap. Iin a test run it was fast and easy but even on the "coarse" setting the result was as fine as flour. I'm hoping the crush won't fall out of the net! I gather from some comments here that this is not a problem with BIAB, can I get...

What went wrong? BIAB 9 lbs of 8 month old 2-row malt barley, 1/2 lb of year old crystal plus 1 lb of boiled grits. For hops, 2/3 oz 17% AA Citra (60 min) and 1/3 oz Citra (5 min). Squeezed, added 1 lb sugar and fermented 12 days at 72 deg with Safale US-05 and 30 ml (1 oz) Lactic acid...

I have some malted barley and some toasted crystal(?) and a half bag of hops that have been around for a while, 6-12 months. Is there a way to check to see if they are still good for brewing?

For my next batch I'm thinking of adding some corn. I have some dry field corn and a grinder (for my 2-row malted barley), how much corn should I add to 10 lb BIAB effort in order to make a tasteable difference?

Made a BIAB beer with added lactic acid (bottling bucket) last month and it turned out okay. A little too IPA-ish though. So I was thinking of cutting the hops in half, to 1/2 oz preboil and 1/2 oz at the end. Then I heard here about no-hops and no-boil. Does no hops beer taste something...

I've been suspending my grain bag over the 30 qt brewing bucket with an engine hoist, and sparging by pouring water through the bag. Kind of a pain getting the hoist out and anyway I don't get a good feeling my rinsing method is very efficient. I saw this gold panner at Home Depot for $10...