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Hi all. I made a cider with apple cider. Brown sugar. malt and a tad of honey. I used Cooper yeast and now I am ready to bottle. Only thing is. I opened my brewing bucket and There is a thick skin on the top of the cider and no sign of anything on the bottom of the bucket. I tasted the...

Ok. Its not really a cute fancy name but as I was pouring my ingred into the fermentation bucket my cat walked by all happy and.. splash. Her tail got right in the path of my pouring. I dont exactly want to toss the batch because it took so damn long and its just the tip of the tail...

Hi guys. I just made a batch of cider and I am all ready to toss in the yeast. Problem is the cider is still pretty cold and I dont want to kill or hurt the yeast. Is it safe to put the yeast into the bucket even though the liquid is cold or should i wait a hour or 2? I have the lid...

Hi guys. I just made a batch of cider and I am all ready to toss in the yeast. Problem is the cider is still pretty cold and I dont want to kill or hurt the yeast. Is it safe to put the yeast into the bucket even though the liquid is cold or should i wait a hour or 2? I have the lid...

Hi all. I am making a nice cider today. 28 Liters of apple cider from a local apple farm. a little tub of honey from a local honey farm. Store bought brown sugar. ( no sugar farm local :P ) Malt extract and some cooper yeast. Any opinion or advice before i start? Like is there anything...

Hi all. I have been brewing for about 3 years now in my dorm room. I normally have my station hidden under a blanket but I closed the door and took a pix for yas. Now I have my setup so that there is zero smell indoors. It all gets vented outside through a nice tube ( you can see my setup in...

Hi all. My newest batch is a pilsner with 3 lemons, 6 oranges and 3 limes all juiced and put through a filter. Pix at home will post later* The guy has been sitting in stage 1 for 2 weeks and then moved over to stage 2 for 5 weeks. Bottled and now its week 2. Tried one of my fruity...

I have noticed that after a few batches i was getting less then perfect carbonation. besides the hoegaarden bottles I never could get a perfect seal so headed out to the home hardware shop and picked up a high heat hot glue gun with a refill pack of 24 sticks. During my last bottling...

Ever since I made my first crystal hop hack i have been hooked to the thick head that comes with the addition. Now every beer I make has a nice boil of crystal hops added in and each one has a very tasty thick head like guiness. I think this may become my trademark ;) thick head...

Ugh well it has been 5 weeks and I thought I would check on one of my carboys... Look what I found... So,. I have green / blue fuzzy crap on it... I took a little sample and tasted the beer. It tastes fine but a little spicy. like minor burning to mouth for a few min after tasting. The...

Have her tell you to go out and get groceries and when she gets home at night sees this.

I keep seeing notices about people brewing ice beer like maximum ice and labatte ice and things like that. How does one ice brew if anyone knows?

Hi all. i am getting close to bottling and I am going to replace the x amount of dextros in the kit with malt extract. Should I messure the dex and put the exact same amount of malt extract in its place or should I add a little more/less? thank you

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Hi hi. I am prewing some pale ail and after day 5 in the primary I am noticing a blue tint in the color. Like it is really looking blue and it is starting to worry me. I will get home tonight and take pix but for now does anyone have any ideas of what may be going on? There is zero foam...

Hi all. Like I posted a few days ago my "other" that lives in the house told me I had to stop brewing because she hated the smell. Well.. I am not one to give up so I designed a way to ensure no odor reaches her lovely nose. Pix are as follows then I will explain them afterwards with the...

Silly question that I cant find the answer for in search options :P How exactly do I dry hop in secondary? Do I just go buy a tea bag and fill it with raw dryhops and soak them in the carboy for a few weeks? I was thinking in that case to use something like this Thank you in advance...

ugh has anyone else had the "urge" ? Every time I finish up and place a batch from the primary into the glass carboy I feel the urge to make another batch.. I mean there is a perfectly good stage 1 bucket there not being used.. Problem is that it may be becomming a addiction lol. I have 3...

Hi all. I have a bunch of the huge carona bottles and I am trying to remove the carona label from them. Anyone have any advice on how to do this? Thank you