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I hope someone here can identify these critters & reassure me! I opened my airtight plastic dogfood container today to get our some 2-row, and found tiny little bugs crawling inside... There were 20-30 I could see, it wasnt like a horror-movie infestation, but definitely enough to concern...

Hey, San Antonio brewers, now that HomeBrew Party is closed, where are you getting your CO2 fills at? I just dropped a bottle off at Airgas but it'll take them 3 business days to fill it - does anyone know of a quicker place, or one that will fill while you wait?

Wanted to see what everyone else's experience was with using a stainless steel canister to dry-hop... The few times I have done it, it seemed to me that there was decreased hop aroma in my pale ale. Brulosophy disgarees with me, but there you have it... I'm frustrated at dealing with all the...

OK, I feel really silly, but I may have been "doing it wrong" for a few years now... I usually use a refractometer for my SG readings after the mash (BIAB) and of course, post-boil. I would scoop some wort out using a small measuring cup and take my measurement. Most of the time there is...

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas, or if this is just one of those things you have to live with... I have a March 815 on my BIAB stand, located about a foot below my kettle. I use the pump to circulate wort through my plate chiller. About 15 min before flame-out, I start the pump to...

Well, I got skunked by my LHBS - I brought home 2 packs of liquid yeast to make a starter for a lager I wanted to brew.... until I noticed the "born on" date was over 6 months ago... I just ordered from N.B. and the yeast I got is 2 months old. Better, but obviously decreased vitality still...

Just moved down from the cold, frozen north (well, Tennessee at least...) Up there I used tap water after a campden tablet, and had some standardized salt additions I would use whether I was brewing a maltier or hopier beer. Obviously the water down here (I'm just north of the 1604 loop)...

So I tried for the first time an AG Irish Red recipe - I picked one of the simpler ones on the forum here ( https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=326549 ), I used 3 oz of roasted barley, and the color came out great. I mashed at 154, my OG was 1.056 and I finshed at 1.020 which I...

I always thought boiling was for hop isomerization. Is there some other magic to it? I'm doing a recipe now that calls for a 90 min boil but the first hop addition isn't until the 60 minute mark. I've been brewing for about a year and a half, but this is my first lager recipe - is it...

After hitting on a summertime beer recipe I really like (a Citra Pale Ale), I bought a 1LB bag of both the hops it uses (Cascade as well) because, of course, Citra can be hard to find at times. I keep the bags in my freezer, and not air-tight sealed but the bag is folded over a few times &...

So I came home from my LHBS with all the ingredients to try out a batch of the American Wheat Beer (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=238940) I was in a bit of a hurry and wrangling my 19 month-old daughter when I got home from the shop, so I chucked the bag with the hops and...

Just curious if anyone who (recently) made the shift from extract to all grain brewing had any thoughts about the "late extract addition" - supposedly that decreased maillard reactions & gives you a lighter colored beer when using extract. Is this completely a non-issue with AG brewing and...

Can anyone tell me how many grams each Campden tablet is? I head you can use 1 tablet to treat 20 gallons of water, but I have powdered Potassium Metabisulfite, so if I can avoid buying (and then crushing!) the tablets, that would be best...

Just curious if anyone here brews (either extract or AG) with the local tap water... I'm mainly doing extract brews, and not that smart on figuring all the water additions if needed, but I can chuck in a Campden tab if it'll save me buying all that bottled spring water...

I'm doing extract brews and steeping specialty grains beforehand... The place Im buying from I can only get the hrains in increments of one pound, so I have random half pounds left over... How long can I expect them to keep in a freezer? Six months? Indefinitely?

I've been mainly extract brewing (kits & recipes) for a little over a year now, and made some pretty tasty beers (and, OK, a few that didn't turn out so well <G>). This whole time I've been using bottled spring water that isn't horribly expensive, but carting around 6 x 1 gallon jugs is a...

Any downside to storing cornelius kegs with a little pressurized star-san in them? It won't cause any corrosion over a few months, will it?

I don't have a stir-plate, so when I make a starter I give the flask a swirl whenever I walk past it. I'm always rewarded with an instant head of foam that tells me CO2 is bubbling out of solution, past my loosely-fitting foil cap.... When I first read about making yeast starters, I was under...

Is there a rule of thumb? I am mainly brewing extract kits at this point - I started doing full volume boils at the same time I made some other changes (improvements), so I haven't really gotten a feel for what the difference in hop utilization is - since most of the kits are based on topping up...

I was hoping to get some opinions from the assembled wisdom, here... I am a relatively new brewer with about a dozen kits or extract recipes under my belt. I've done 2 BIABs but right now can't spend the longer time for an all-gran brew, so I'm only doing extract for a while... I would love to...