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Brewed up an American Amber and used Voss Kveik for the first time. Party time after 2 hours - wild! Recipe calls for 5-7 days @ 95F. I usually use US-05 @ 67F and let it ride for 14 days before I even look at it, so this Kveik profile is new territory for me. I was just wondering what sort of...

As the title says, I'm trying to copy my equipment profile from Beersmith to Brewfather. The issue I'm having is my mash/sparge water volumes are not the same when all values in the equipment profile are identical to Beersmith. I've pretty well dialled Beersmith to the point where my mash &...

Hey gang, a friend of mine recently gave me ~14oz of fresh hops from his property. I dried them out, vacuum sealed them, and chucked them in the freezer. I'd like to brew with them sooner than later, and it'll also be my first time brewing with hole cone hops. I took them to a local brewery for...

A friend of mine recently gave me 3 large ziplock bags of hops from vines at his house. They grow every year, and he has no use for them. They definitely aren't ornamental and they smell like cascade but I'm not positive. I'm drying them out on a screen with fans in my basement, and will vacuum...

I've used US-05 a bunch, and I've had good luck with fermenting it in closets with ambient temps between 64-70F depending on seasons. I recently converted a mini fridge into a fermentation/lager chamber with an inkbird and brew belt. This is my first time using it and I'm using US-05 on a Marzen...

I've been thinking of building a portable keg setup for a while. I'm thinking of a cooler, paintball tank with adapter/regulator attached to the side, with a picnic tap. I'm fishing for ideas... Lets see/hear what you've got! Did you encounter any issues, and how did you remedy them? Cheers!

Hey everyone! Going to try my hand at brewing a Gose soon and will be using this recipe: Breakin' the Law Gose Recipe :: Great Fermentations I've done a bunch of reading and have noticed that there's two camps between using acidulated malt in the mash after conversion (as per the above recipe)...

It's time to brew, and given the quarantine and LHBS closures I only have what I have. I've only ever built one recipe on my own before and I'd like to try again with a simple SMaSH. I'm planning to do a 5gal batch using 2-row as my malt and Ekuanot (Equinox) hops. I have 2oz of hop pellets...

Hey all. I picked up a used corny keg a month ago and noticed it smelled like mold/mildew and there was a small amount of beer swirling in the bottom of it. Previous owner said he hadn't used it in a couple of years. I tore the whole thing down, replaced all of the o-rings, filled it with...

First time dry hopping, first time kegging. Added 2.5oz of pellet hops straight into the fermenter for 7 days. I didn't have a method of preventing suck back of O2 so I skipped cold crashing all together. Also it wasn't the smoothest of transfers since my auto-siphon was creating a lot of...

Just finished building my first keezer from a Danby 5.5cu freezer. I wanted something that could easily hold 2 kegs with room for a 3rd (corny & 1/6bbl sanke), fit a 5lb Co2 tank on the compressor hump, and look decent since I'd be keeping it in my house. I used the keezer dimension thread on...

I know there are a few variables and an equation for this sort of thing, but I'm not looking for a precise answer. I'm about to order all the bits I need to build my keezer in the new year and the package I'm buying has an option for 6ft or 10ft of Bevlex line. Obviously 10ft is the safer bet...

So, the home renos are almost done, which means my wife will let me move on to my next project - a keezer! I've put a list together with most of the things I'll need but I'm getting hung up on which temp controller to go with. Here's the short list and why they're up for debate: Inkbird ITC-308...

So, I've made 2x 5gal extract batches so far (Coopers, no boil) and the taste is there but the carbonation is... lacking. In both cases I used the Northern Brewer priming calculator and I'm batch priming with dextrose. I'm measuring the priming sugar by weight and adding it to 1.5 - 2 cups of...

So I've made a couple brew can kits which have turned out decent, but I'm ready for what's next. A friend of mine suggested I pull the trigger on a Robobrew and go right to all grain, but I want to do the partial extract thing first so I get the full experience and learn a thing or two. I'm in...

In a couple days I'm going to be batch priming and bottling my first batch. It's a Coopers IPA kit, and has been in the primary fermenter for 3 weeks. The brew has been sitting at a relatively steady 19C and totals 5 gallons. My LHBS suggested if the FG was between 1.004-06 they typically add...

Hey everyone, New to the forum and brand new to brewing! My dad used to brew wine and beer at home in the early/mid 90's and hasn't touched his gear since. He gave me all of his stuff a few years ago and I'm finally getting around to using it. I have a 5gal plastic pale, 2x 5gal glass carboys...