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Guys, I'm looking for input from anyone that has used dry yeast to add at bottling time. I haven't bottled for years as I've been kegging, but decided to go back and bottle condition some beers for comparison. I purchased 2 packets of Danstar CBC-1 (special flocculant yeast for bottle...

Okay HomeBrewTalk, I need your help. But first I'd like to ask people to refrain from telling me not to filter. I would encourage people that DO filter to share their thoughts. What I want: Diamond bright beer. Not the kind that you see in photos on the forum where people are bragging that it...

I'm into my 4th year of all grain brewing, and I'm constantly thirsting for more advanced homebrewing knowledge. Even now that I'm brewing 10 gallon batches and splitting them, I get frustrated because it still takes so much time to compare the finished products. I want to understand for...

I'm a fairly experience brewer. I know the difference between fusel alcohol (solventy, fusely, acetoney) and hot alcohol (clean ethanol flavor). I recently brewed a DIPA and I'm getting some ethanol flavor in it that seems out of balance. I've learned that with a high alcohol beer like a...

Hey everyone, I've decided that I'd like to start a long-time blogging project, but I'm stuck coming up with an idea... I could write for one of two audiences: homebrewers, or just people that enjoy trying new craft beers. On one hand, I could write a blog chronicling my brew days and...

I'm looking to start a small group of intermediate to advanced brewers. The objective would be to expand our collective knowledge of brewing and recipe design by conducting small brewing experiments. For example, we could all brew a single-malt beer with a low neutral hop and a netural yeast...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but for those of you that own/have owned a 50L Braumeister, was it possible to do a 5 gallon batch in one of those? This way, couldn't one do a super-high gravity 5 gallon batch and not worry about having enough space for the grain?

Folks: I've been brewing for about 3 years with over 70 or so batches under my belt. I'm looking to invest some more money into my craft. I've contemplated building a 2-vessel, 1 pump rims system with some high-grade stout kettles. You can check out the evolution of that design at this thread...

Fellow brewers: I'm ready to pony up some dough and build a nicer brew system. I've talked to a couple of folks and worked up some sketches. Those of you guys who have build a system of your own, if you could take a look at this design and tell me what won't work, how to improve or simplify...

Fellow Brewers: I've always force-carbonated the beer in my corny kegs. Since I'm such an impatient brewer, and I always want to have beer ready to swap into my 1 (lonely) tap kegerator, would it be a good idea for me to start kegging my pipeline of beer and adding corn sugar to my finished...

Fellow Brewers: I need you to be brutally honest and critical with me... I don't know if I NEED an upgrade, but I've got about a $1000 bucks saved up and I'm thinking of spending it on building/buying a new brewing rig. Here's my situation: I've been all-grain brewing for two years on the...

The recipe would look something like: 3.5 lbs Munich 6.5 lbs Rye Malt 1.0 lb Caramunich 1.0 Rauchmalz 1.0 z Saaz @ 60 min .50 Saaz @ 10 min Wyeast 3068 Weinstephan This is based off the Brewing Classic Styles Roggenbier...Do you think the smoked malt will work with spicyness of...

Fellow brewers: My tripel had a pleasant bubble gum/banana ester aroma as expected, but when you drink it, it tastes like someone poured three shots of charcoal filtered vodka in with the beer (NOT the higher alcohol solventy off flavor). Very difficult to drink. Has anyone had this happen...

I'm on batch two (making a nice dark ale w/ roasted grain), and I just realized accidentally destroyed my fermentation lock (it fell into the in-sink-grinder) when I made my first batch (after completion). I've just finished with the wort! I gotta pitch the yeast tonight, and no airlock! The...

Hey guys, new to this forum - just thought I'd put it out there. I brewed my first beer last week and just waiting for my two cases of conditioning beer to "ripen". So far, I've been visiting my local "wine & hop shop" here in Madison, WI (also where I got my starter kit). Is it more...