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One spray bottle got ripepd through a year ago, the second one this weekend. Rest in pieces! Bottle Count: 2

Hello good folks of homebrewtalk, My oxiclean leaves a powdery residue which cannot be rinsed away with hot water. What works is a quick vinegar soak. My question is, could I combine my oxyclean soak with distilled vinegar right from the beginning to keep the powdery stuff in solution? Would...

Fellow brewers and brewerettes, What is your favourite historical UK (London?) porter recipe from the Victorian era that you have successfully brewed? I need some inspiration. Thank you very much. M

Cheers everyone, This beer came out beautiful! It is not clear, but this is nowadays oviously not a bug, but a feature. It has all the mouthfeel, all the hoppyness and all the flavour that one needs in a good pale ale. It is super pale, probably the palest beer i have brewed so far. It looks a...

This one is a very nice American Session Wheat Stout. Never heard of it before? American Session Wheat Stout? No? ...me neither. So I think I invented it. It is very roasty with a firm bitterness (but not over the top teeth-melting bitterness) and nice piny and dank american hop charcter. On...

Let's discuss one of the universe's big mysteries. "Brewing AGAIN?" "Don't you have enough beer already?" "Who is going to drink all this?" "What's in this parcel that just got delivered?" "Why is there a wooden barrel standing in the bedroom?" Those who don't know these sentences from...

Good morning! I will have a spare fermenter in a few weeks and I thought about using that one for the bretty stuff. I always wanted to brew a nice beer including brettanomyces, but this should not be a brettanomyces only beer and not a sour. Tart would be ok, but not a real sour. I would like...

Good day everyone, after the topic popped up somewhere else and we went far too off topic with that, I thought it is better to give this topic it's own thread. We're talking about culinary mushrooms here, not the crazy ones..... I grow pom pom, oyster and shiitake. Everything only with stuff...

These extra wild northern German street hops are baaaad mfers! Be extra careful around them, no sudden movements!

Good evening. I recently discovered that I am not the only one having made the discovery that the amount of hops being used is connected to foam stability. I am not talking about ibus here, but the total amount of hops. Dry hops or late additions or boil, does not seem to be that important at...

Hi! I got one of these sturdy red bench cappers since years. Lately it seems like that the crown caps are a bit more loose on my bottles than they used to be. I didn't change anything on my technique and I am not using weired new caps. Any idea what I could do to tighten the seal up a bit...

Hello fellow brewers, one question is bothering me since ages. I know that other guys are experiencing the same, so hear me out. I bottle with priming sugar. The first 2 weeks, there is zero head retention, no matter how well the beer is already carbed. Sometimes, with higher ambient...

Hi! I am quite sensitive to hot side oxidation flavours, mainly this dreaded almond flavour which I sometimes encountered within my brews. Switching back to BIAB lowered the intensity significantly compared to my not so well designed mash ton, but it was still there. To be fair, it was aging...

Good evening, In my search for a flavourfull beer with a quick turnaround, I happened to stumble across the old English beer type called AK. Nobody really knows what AK actually stands for, you can have a look at Ron Pattinsons blog (shutupaboutbarclayperkins) and have a read there, if you want...

Good evening, There is this one off flavour that shows up in all of my last brews. It is a hint of marzipan/maybe almond-ish. Hard to describe, it overshadows the malt character. Sometimes it is stronger, sometimes it is less pronounced, but it seems to be always present in my last brews. I had...

It's 1:30 pm and I want a pint. I need to work till 5:30 but I want a pint. I want a pint but I cannot have a pint. Who else wants a pint?

Is this little fellow wild hop? I live in Bremen and wild hops are literally everywhere here, so it wouldn't be too surprising.

Hi! I am trying to pinpoint some unexpected bitterness/astringency in my last ordinary bitter I brewed. The taste reminds me of what I got from amber malt and some brown malts, which was totally unpleasant. It aged out after about half a year though. Did you guys experience the same with...

Hi! I am fermenting a Barleywine atm which had an OG of 1.098. I threw the Wort on a yeastcake of ordinary bitter directly after botteling, so the yeast count should be enough. My concern is, that A09 tends to finish on the higher side but I love the esters it provides (and the floculation as...

Evening Gentleman, I recently happened to stumble upon a few recipes from the Ron Pattinson blog for AKs. I had no idea that AK was actually a British beer style, unfortunately extinct nowadays. Anyway, plenty of AK recipes on Ron's blog, but have you brewed one and which one did you like the...