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So I am in the middle of brewing a raison when I sliced my finger pretty bad breaking a carboy. (Will not be using carboys in the future) I finished sparing and now have a kettle with wort ready to boil. Is there any issues continuing brewing in a few hours after I'm back from the hospital?

Around here we don't do big expensive gifts for mothers/fathers day. A day spent with the fam is all I need. But a little something is always nice too. The wife framed a few pics of the little one holding some letters. She could have spelled something cheesy like "love" or "family" but nope, not...

I've been brewing all grain for 4-5 years. I brew all kinds of styles but prefer low bitter, high flavour pale ales and IPAs. My beers have always been bursting with flavour. (Grapefruit, passion fruit and so on depending on hops.) I moved about a year ago, and since then my beers have been...

I'm bringing a keg to a friend's party this weekend. Just wondering what time is needed for the keg to settle. Is an hour or two good? or should I bring it a day before the party?

So I've brewed a berliner weisse for the first time. Pitched lacto and it seems to be doing its thing. I would really like to keg this beer, but don't want to get my tap and lines all buggy. Any advice. I was thinking maybe a quick boil befor I pitch the yeast. Is this a bad idea? Any other...

So I plan on brewing a berliner weisse tomorrow. So last weekend I made a starter as usual and pitched the lactobacillus culture into it. It has been about 6 day and it dosnt seem.to be doin much, if anything. This is my first time using lacto, so I'm not sure what I should be expecting. Is...

So I just bought a new house. I've got this room in the basment that my wife thinks is nothing but a storage space. I see it as a great home brewery. There is lots of room, high ceilings, water and drains. Also an easy run from the main electrical panel. (I have an electric brewing setup) I...

So I'm about to become a.dad for the first time. The wife's family is Catholic so we will be doing a baptism followed by dinner at some restaurant. As thank you gifts we are thinking about bottleing some homebrew in nice bottles with nice labels. I am looking for some input from you good folks...

After harvesting and drying a whopping .8 Oz of first year hops. I was a little dissapointed. But this year my one and only hop plant came back to life in the spring. Grew great throughout the season and has produced much better. Now that they are all harvested and dried I've got 14 Oz of...

My second year cascade have been growing like mad all season. There are now about 20 feet tall. I am having an issue with the leaves browning and getting holes. I have looked all over the plant, under the leaves but I don't see any bugs. Does this look like a nutrient deficiency? I have my...

So I got my self another freezer to use as a fermentation chamber. (My old one became my keezer). So I built a new controller. Just thought I'd share.

We have all been told a thousand not to run our elements dry. Just thought I would share an extreme case. This is not from my kettle but from a hot water tank I serviced today.

So as I'm brewing up a 5 gallon all grain classic American Pilsner. My wife walks in as I'm cracking open homebrew. She said " God, drinking beer at 10am, you've got a problem". I figure, brewing beer = drinking beer. Any one else get this from the wife? I'm just glad she didn't notice the...

So I made a 2L starter on Thursday. 24 hours later, all went as planed. I had 75G of DME left over and was a little low on my cell count. So I figure I would make a small 750ml starter and have the yeast all revved up for my Sunday brew day. I just got home, Less than 8 hours and BOOM. yeast...

So I have my hop plant coming back for year two. The are about 12 little bines coming up. As I've read here, I should let them all grow. Cut back the few that grow really fast (Bulls?). Then pick 5 (I have a five lines running up the side of my house) and train them. Cut back what ever is left...

Hopefully someone can help me. I always get a tone of emails from homebrewtalk late at night. How do I stop this?

I've found it!!! the best youtube homebrew video ever made. this is an instant classic. you're welcome :ban:

I seem to be having issues with quoting another post. I can reply to a post, but when I try to quote I get an error saying to I need to wait 30 seconds between posts. I wait, then I get another error. Hmmmm. Frustrating. Any one else experienced this? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

so I've been brewing extract for a year and a half. so far I've been very happy with the results. I recently made the jump into all-grain and are 3 batches in. my last beer was a centennial session blond recipe I for on this forum. Grain Bill, 5 gallon batch 6 lbs 2-row 12 oz Cara-Pils 8...

So I bought a hop plant this spring. It was very small when I got it and had a few white marks on the leaves. I posted a few picture here and was told not to worry about it. Now that the plant is growing the issue seems to be continuing, as well as what looks like dried out edges of a few...