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Hello everyone. I did today batch of English IPA,it is smaller batch 15 liters. -Pre boil water -21L -4.2 kg Marissa otter 0.5kg Victory I used Brewfather software,I managed to hit all predicted numbers,my og was even 2 points up,but after boiling and chilling ,I ended up with 5 liters of trub...

Hello all,I'm looking to purchase ph meter,and was wondering if any of you have experience with either of these. -Dr.meter ph-383 -Apera ph 60 Dr meter is half the price of Apera,with similar functions ,usually you get what you paid for ,but for brewing 1 or 2 a month,do I really need something...

Good morning everyone. Finally after google search for days,I need to turn in to real life experts here. I'm trying to figure out which microscope to buy to be able to see yeast cells and bacterias ,like Brett and lactobacilus? What specs should I look for? Maybe yiu have specific model...

Soo frustrated,it's the second time I'm trying BIAB after 15 years of ice cooler and pot set up,and I just can't hit more than 52% efficiency. I mill my grains my own ,I wet condition them before milling,and crush on finest setup. I follow beersmith equipment for BIAB 13 gallon pot.at first the...

Hello fellows brewers,hope everyone is doing well! So 2 weeks a go I brewed beautiful extra special bitter. After fermentation ended,I sealed the carboy shut and placed in cold chamber to crush it and claryfiy the beer.now 4 days later there is fine white film on it. Obviously the seal was not...

Hello all.im looking for yeasts that will ferment at lower temperatures producing not too much esters,and higher temperatures with more character impact on beer,like more fruity.suggestions welcome,cheers.

Hello all,first of all I want to say I hope everyone is safe and healthy in this crazy times.I was recently debating,since my brew store is closed and I'm out of malted grains,but I still have some unmalted one.i was thinking of sprouting them than right after blitz them in blender or something...

Hey all,I've been fining my beers with gelatin following the brulosophy method,but I was wondering,what if my beer in keg is already carbonated,and than add the gelatin? Are there any reasons against it?

Iknow that malt bill sounds like homebrewer definition of hell,low diastetic power oats,and sticky rye, It was more like 4 kg oat malt and 3 kg rye malt with some special B,did 40 C beta glucan rest than decoction to 68C and left this overnight for about 10hrs no problems draining it,now it is...

Cheers everyone,I wanted to attempt to malt my own grains,like buckchweat or millet,and I was wondering if the drying step is really necessary?let's say my grains are all malted by Friday,then I just mill them wet with my corona mill and brew with them right away,in theory make sense,will just...

Cheers everyone, yesterday I brewed 100% oat beer,I got the one from canada maltage,5kg,I did 3-ple decoction ,beta glycan rest for 30 min, protein test for 30 min and sac rest for 90 min,I used wln4100 ultre ferm in the end,the beer is fermenting mow,the only issue I see is lace of foam-...

So today I brewed maybock,got 8 kg of hrains,I crush them at my local storeashed in 66 C for 1 hour,mash ph 5.4 ,batch sparged ,and instead 1.057 as predicted by beer smit,I got 1.051!! Big problem,so the calculated efficiency was 48,5%,usually I get around 60%which I find low anyways,but...

So,I've been drinking water kefir or few weeks,than the idea (nothing new) came to my mind,to brew small batch of extract beer and ferment it with the kefir water,well seems like it works well,I couldn't find any solid info on the net,the og was 1.056 the FG is 1.010 ,it has a hint of banana...

hello all,i have corona mill which is ok,recently my friendly home brew store got some 2 roller '' economy barley crusher,it is basically the same thing like the one made in USA ,just this one are made in china,question is,does anybody use them,can they be worst than corona mill-thanks.

brewed 2 weeks a go English ale,100% maris otter,og1.044 fg 1.008,WLP007,very light patio beer for this coming;y5 weekend,cool crashed and filtered it,now the flavor is good and all ,i just find the color and body not quite as i wanted,i think i mashed it too long so the wort is very...

So while back in my novice years of beer brewing , occasionally I used to filter my brew.i was using this plate wine filtration systems,worked great ,but kind of pain to assemble,so I jumped in to this ever so popular long cylindrical system,easy to use and assemble,except it doesn't work...

hello all,im looking for barley crusher,im located in Montreal but Ottawa is ok too,for the right price i can travel.cheers.

this is more of a rhetorical question,i know the answer now,but till yesterday i didnt,while playing with the newest version of beersmith i looked at my brew house efficiency=58% did some digging around and turned out that more normal range is 70-80!! i never paid attention to it before,always...

hello all,i brewed Vienna lager few weeks a go,100% Vienna malt beer,1.054 og,1.010 fg,i used wlp830,great lager fermentation,cool crushed it ,the beer has beauty full color,and according to my beer smith software the BU:GU ratio is 0.311,so really should be not bitter at all.last night i had...

Cheers everybody,i'm new to forum here,i was browsing it for a while ,and finally decide to join,glad to be here,i've been home brew for 13 years,and hope will be able to contribute something here,but first i will be looking for help with my current issue!cheers.:tank: