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Hey guys. So i usually bottle my beers using brewersfriend priming calculator. This is all well and fine when i try to carbonate at 2-2.2 which is pretty much my standard. But when i go above to 2.5 or so for certain pils or lagers i have had problems. The beer is good at 2-3 weeks after...

Hey guys Recently i made a batch of cider (carbonated, 5%abv). It was decent but it was missing some apple flavour. It was made with juice from concentrate bought in the store. I dont want to buy a press and the fresh pressed juice is mighty expensive (3-6$ per liter). I was wondering if i...

Hey guys Im gonna try my hand at last with some sour beer. Its gonna be kettle soured and im abot to order the ingredients. I was doubting on what yeast to use. I was thinking i wanted to do something like a schwarzbier (mostly pils/pale ale malt and a decent amount of black patent or choco to...

Hi guys, So im brewing an APA with Polaris hops and im usually not a fan of high bitterness or high hop content beers but i wanted to givw it a try. But i have not played much with hops so i have a few questions. In this case i have a 15 liter batch where i added 15 grams of Polaris for 30...

Hi guys. So i have been here for a while and i started brewing mead and discovered Mangrove Jacks M05 yeast. Thats what got me into mangrove jacks yeasts when i started brewing beers. I have only been doing so for half a year but i have done a bunch of batches and every time i try to find info...

So i am planning a Schwarzbier recipe and im gonna use 7% roast malt. Initially i was gonna use dark chocolate malt (900 EBC) but then i dont want as much astringency and bitterness from the roast so i thought about cold steeping. I then saw that my store also carries black pearled malt...

So i have to separated problems but decided to make only one thread for clarity's sake. Overall my beers dont have a lasting head. My darker beers such as stout and brown ales have a better foam stability but it still only lingers for a couple minutes. In lighter colored beers even less. THe...

So i brewed myself some chocolate stout nearly a month ago. It was left in the primary until today. I used chocolate malt and cocoa powder (125 grams for 14 liters). IT smells really good, i just bottled it. The weird thing was that when i opened the bucket there was this huge layer of...

Ok. So I have been improving my process in the last batches but one thing bothers me slightly. Turb. I dont care about the turb in my fermenter per se. But i use 16L buckets, biab, and a 15L pot. This results in 14L of post boil wort making it into my fermenter. Of those, 2L are junk. This means...

Wherever you decide to read about bottle conditioning you see "leave for 2-3 weeks". I have done several searches but cant find any real reason for this. In most cases the table sugar is consumed in two to five days (20°C room temp). What prevents me from putting the bottles in the fridge for...

So im gonna do two recipes side by side, the same process, to see the differences in the malt. BIAB, 14 liters, 3.7kg of pilsner/vienna malt, 15g of perle boiled for 45m, 15 grams for 15 mins and 20 at pitch. Mangrove Jacks M42 yeast (77-82% att, very neutral yeast). Im wondering if with...

Ok. SO 10 days ago, at around 00:00 of the 12/10/2017 (12th oct for americans) I pitched the yeast in my 3rd and 4th batches of beer. One was a darkish ale and i used Mangrove jacks M15 Empire Ale. Another was a more hop forward Vienna malt ale. I used M44 West coast. Both were pitched slightly...

So i have read quite a lot in a rather short time like all new ppl that go into brewing and i still have some basic doubtd about bpiling and hops additions i was hoping someone could help me with. I know how its traditionally made but im doing biab now and im not sure i have to boil for...

I had never tasted sour until briefly before i started brewing a month and a half ago or so. I really liked it so i would like to give it a try. I have the next batch planned but after that i might give it a try if i come with a solid plan. For this i would like to ask the more expert brewers a...

So i guess this must happen to most people... I would love to do some lagers but i cant lager them in a cold space. I was wondering if someone knows/has experimented taking a lager recipe and just using some neutral ale yeast and do it as ale. I know that is not a lager, i really wonder what...

Hey there! So im somewhat new to beer brewing and i still have many many things i want to try so im not in a hurry but lately i tried a few sour beers that really hitted a spot, and as it usually happens now i want to know how to make smething similar. Making a stout or an IPA seems rather...

So i've been brewing mead for a while and I've decided to try my hand at beer. Im gonna post the detailed recipes of what i intend to do so you can point me in the right direction if something is not as it should. My equipment is very limited, so bear with me. If this go well I might expand and...