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I will be spending some time around Paris for work. I'm American. I love beer and visiting local beer things when I travel to new places. What should I do and where should I go around Paris? I will also have access to a weekend where I could potentially travel somewhere close - say Belgium or...

For the 2nd or 3rd time in my homebrew career I walked out to my chest freezer where my serving kegs are to find my just-tapped pilsner had emptied out of the picnic faucet into the freezer, losing all 5 gallons. I don't understand how these leaks happen. The tap was closed and seemingly...

I have four wild/sour beers I've been aging for about a year, and I'm looking to bottle them in the next month or two. I was going to buy a dedicated corny keg and rack from my carboys to the keg to force carbonate, use a beer gun to bottle, clean/sanitize the keg like normal, then put the next...

I've been using plastic auto siphons for 10+ years but I'm over them - I never trust them, they're impossible to clean and I've bought so many over the years. What is your preferred option? Currently I'm considering: - BrewSSSiphon - Ball and Keg dual purpose siphon - making my own version of...

I know there are a lot of threads about this already but...whatever. I've been brewing for 15 years and am looking to retire my much loved cheapo 10 gallon amazon pot. I've always done 5 gallon batches, brew outside on propane, BIAB w/ pulley, immersion chiller, then an auto-siphon to rack cool...

I put too much wort in my keg to ferment it. It is day 5 and somewhere along the line I think the gas poppit got clogged (i have a QD to a hose to a bottle of starsan for airlock). When I open the prv beer just shoots everywhere. I hooked up a picnic tap and poured out a lot of foam (the keg is...

I just received several cultures from East Coast and Bootleg, and plan on doing a round of several funky beers this spring. All my cultures include sacc, brett, lacto, and pedio (well, one doesn't have pedio). - All of my beers will have an OG between 1.030 and 1.060. Am I good to direct pitch...

I was going to brew a Saison and split it into two fermenters, one with just 3711, the other with 3711 + Orval dregs. However, I only have one bottle of Orval and it's 28 months old. I was going to try and step it up, once in the bottle, then into a 1L starter over a couple weeks then use that...

I'm pretty sure I had just had my first infection/wild yeast batch. I fermented in a glass carboy, used a SS siphon to pressure transfer into keg. I was just going to PBW then Starsan all that stuff as usual and re-use. Am I missing anything?

Anyone have an idea to make this tubing fit a picnic tap (i think is 1/4 barb)? I know I can just buy different tubing but I already have a roll of the 4mm. I tried warming the tubing and sliding it on but no joy.

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I'm fermenting an IPA in a keg, and I have the torpedo floating dip tube in it. I think I'm going to try and drop hop 6 oz pellets loose, then after about 3 days cold crash for another 2-3 days, then transfer to serving keg. My hope is that the hop matter settles and the floating dip tube...

My last city/state I lived had super soft water, and getting the profile I wanted was a breeze. I've moved and now have to deal with higher alkaline water. I do full volume BIAB. If I dilute my tap water 50/50 with distilled, does that mean I can just halve all the mineral content from my city...

I've done small batches on my stove forever, but I've moved and am going to do 5gal full volume BIAB outside using a propane burner. I have questions. - Kettle Recommenations: 10 vs 15 gallon, bayou or concord or SS Brewtech/Anvil, how much do you like having a ball valve and thermometer (I've...

I've been brewing beer for a long time, and back in the day had a recurring issue with bottle bombs. I think I know my errors (using random recycled bottles, maybe infected beer, too hot storage, etc), but it was enough to move me to kegging to avoid glass shrapnel. I'm about to do my first...

I stopped using Centennial in my brews few years ago when I discovered they always seem to impart a soapy flavor in my brews. I drank a commercial beer last night with Centennial, and yep, soap city. Am I the only one who gets this? I don't get the soap/cilantro thing for what its worth.

I just opened up a lb of Idaho 7 hops from 2019 crop, and it doesn't smell like any other hop I've ever used. It might be the garlic/onion, maybe old socks? Does not smell like hop goodness. I've never had this before, is this a Idaho 7 thing or a general hops gone bad thing?

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I brew 2.5 gal batches and am going to get a mill and a 50-55 lb sack of grain. Can't settle on if I should get a bag of american 2-row or pils. Does pils make a better IPA/APA or does 2-row make a better pils? Would be either Briess 2-row, Briess Pilsen, or Castle Pilsen (all local to me...

So I'm going to buy a year's worth of hops in the next few weeks and I do a lot of IPA/APA and Pilsner. Trouble is, I want all the hops and can't narrow it down. I have some remnants of Mosaic/Galaxy/Simcoe/Willamette in the freezer from last year. I'm definitely going to buy: -Nelson -Citra...