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I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this, but it was so easy I wanted to put it out there. I brewed a berliner weisse a couple of months ago and am planning on bottling soon and wanted to add some fresh yeast, so I inserted my racking cane into a carboy of a beer I brewed two days ago just...

I just got a couple of jugs of distilled water from the store. I've seen guys here post about using distilled water when working with yeast and I'm wondering if I should still boil it for fifteen minutes or if people here just trust it out of the jug... I am planning on using it to wash some...

i'm in mexico and having a good time, but my luck took a bad turn yesterday on the first day of my vacation when i was boogeyboarding and came off the top of a wave straight down on my shoulder. i'm now sporting a sling for the next month while i keep my right arm immobile. apparently i tore...

I usually leave my beers on the yeast for three weeks before bottling or kegging, but my last beer was a 1.040 speed beer which went from grain to glass in a week and it was really good. This has got me wondering how long weizens are usually fermented, as I know its a style that is quaffed...

I have been reading about water chemistry and would like to adjust my very soft water to make a porter soon. I have played with some calculators and I think I am on the right track, but I just wanted to get some feedback and advice so I don't screw up ten gallons of beer. My water character...

I have been reading about water chemistry and would like to adjust my very soft water to make a porter soon. I have played with some calculators and I think I am on the right track, but I just wanted to get some feedback and advice so I don't screw up ten gallons of beer. My water character...

Just picked the last of my hops. I got a half pound dried on the first round. I think this will weigh about 3/4 of a pound when dry. Cascades are on the left and nuggets are on the right. They are drying on a quickly built 2x4 frame I threw together with fan blowing up from underneath. The...

I just started kegging in cornies a month ago and although I have a couple standard chrome taps, I couldn't decide where I wanted to place them and so just went with picnic taps in the meantime. I have been totally happy with this arrangement and although it doesn't look as sleek as having a...

I've been drinking Hopworks secession black ipa (cascadian dark ale) lately and really like it, so last night I started working on ideas for a recipe. I'm not too familiar with using the dark roasts, so I was looking for some feedback... After searching online, I found that they used choc...

I just finished putting together a little two burner brew stand and want to share the details in case anyone else wants to adopt/modify what I've done. I developed my design with help from brew sculpture pics on this site. I don't plan on doing herms/rims but wanted to be able to do two...

I've been adding yeast at bottling time to ensure that my beer carbonates in a week. I rehydrate half a pouch of us-05 for ten gallons. I use all different kinds of yeast for primary fermentation but started doing this when I first started brewing a year ago and made an English bitter with...

So I've finally got my little two burner brew stand welded up (my first major welding project with my little 120v clarke stick welder). Here is a picture: I will post a google sketch up image with measurements in case anyone is interested in using/modifying what I've done. My question is...

So I dried a bunch (four or five pounds) of cascade (mostly) hops this year and I noticed a slight yellowing below my drying screen. I swept it up and discovered that some of the oil sacs had dropped from the hops as they dried or I moved them around. There's quite a bit here when you...

My wife and I went to the Oregon State Fair this weekend to hear the results of the beer competition. We were both amazed at how many times one guy in particular won (14 times) out of 3,600 entries altogether. No, I didn't win a ribbon. No, I'm not a sore loser (I started brewing last year...

Does anyone have a lead on where to get sorghum malt? I know extract is available, but I'm not interested in it. I would like to experiment making a gluten free beer for a friend and also I've wanted to try making the opaque sorghum beer of southern Africa. I know Bards has someone growing...

I just noticed this controller featured on hackaday.com. It looks like an interesting project... BrewTroller | BrewTroller The web site says: "BrewTroller is open source. We may sell components to make implementation easier for users but everything we do including code and circuit board...

I've used both dry and liquid yeasts with great success, although the last time I used us-05 it attenuated above and beyond what was required. My og was 1.054 and I ended at 1.007 (That's like 86%!). It was a split batch, and the other carboy stopped at 1.013 using wyeast london III. -I...

I hope I didn't reply to the following too fast: The banana and clove are flavor notes emerging from the fermentation of the beer--thanks mainly to the wheat--which produces more phenols (the source of these notes). from the Sierra Nevada Kellerweis post on this blog Beervana, the Blog...