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Hello everybody Over the last few years, the quality of my homebrew has greatly increased. The two biggest factors were switching from extract to all grain, and swapping from bottling to kegging. I have experimented with hop quantity over probably 40-60 six gallon batches of all grain, and...

Pretty much this^

I have thought endlessly about making a port mead, but I have never tried it. I have about 40# of very awesome honey on hand and I really wanted to give that project a try

My #1 tip is: Drink 100% of your beer in a timely manner. I have had way too many bottles go bad after 3-6 months, generally due to over carbonation from likely infection or wild yeast. The longer it sits the more chance it has to get ruined. So drink it up!! Especially when the beer is at the...

Larry has an awesome channel, I strongly recommend his content

Some home-brew shops have 'Beginner Equipment Kits' for around $100-150. Also every home-brew shop I've ever seen carries recipe kits in little boxes for $25-45 depending on beer style. My suggestion would be to start with one of these beginner equipment kits, and one of these home-brew kits...

I often dry hop about 48 hours after pitching yeast, especially for juicy IPAs. There is a lot of debate going on around the 'bio-transformation' you get when adding hops during fermentation. I also lightly stir the hops a few times over the first day to make sure i'm getting the most out of...

What was the original gravity?

Don't buy from Midwest/Northern Brewer. As others have said it is owned by AB InBev. I would suggest you find some local or online shop with awesome owners

Oktoberfest is one of my favorite styles, and I don't have equipment to lager either. I'm quite interested in how this turns out

I did this combo for my first all grain and it was great! 4.8% abv with 5oz of amarillo. I could have drank that beer all day. Or a cream ale is a sort of smash beer. My recipe is Pilsen Malt + Liberty hops + corn and sucrose as adjuncts. That beer is very crisp and super crushable. There...

Does that product remove head in the final beer? I looked it up and it looks pretty awesome Edit: Never mind I found the answer to my question "FermCap S Foam Control does not affect the head on your finished beer. In fact, it can actually increase the head by retaining head-forming compounds...

A local brewery has a "Coffee Golden Ale" which is freaking awesome. I say definitely give it a try. I don't know how to keep the beer light colored though, but they manage to keep it nice and gold.

There is actually an interesting technique of scimming the krausen off the top of a fermenting beer which supposedly makes a cleaner flavor. I don't know much more than that about it though. So if you can skim a krausen I see no reason why you can't skim the foam you got. It may change the beer...

That looks like hop pellets to me. They sorta turn into big thin grassy particles after a few days in the beer. You say it happened after dry hopping I think this is extremely likely. I drop hop many of my beers heavily. I often have some similar particles in the first few pours of my beer from...

I think what is happening inside of the keg is that the beer is separating into literally different layers. I had a lot of trouble finding a picture of this, but I found an ok one here: When the beer is clearing it sometimes forms layers inside the carboy, with the clearest layers typically...

All of my beers drop clear after several weeks in the keg. I think what happens is that the beer cold crashes over time, and because our kegs are really served from the bottom all of the haze creating particles come out in the first half or so of the keg. I hope this makes sense

There can be massive variance in produce quality and characteristics. You can take two hop plants with the same DNA, and grow them in different places and they would likely have different alpha acid percentages. You can take two seeds from the same cone, and grow them in the same place and they...

That setup looks amazing my man. Your inline pump looks pretty hefty; do you feel you need a pump that size for that type of filter? I've been theorizing a setup like that for my wine; I was using my vacuum pump to suck wine through my filter but I decided that surely an inline pump is superior.

Lmao that is amazing. Wax "isnt" soluble in alcohol or water. It did probably dissolve some pigments or maybe some random binders; which is why its a goop pile. I thought "surely countless crayons have been eaten by children" Which led me to find this...