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I have been trying to grow Goldings for the past couple years without much luck. Has anyone had any luck growing any English hop variety? Please give me your suggestions and let me know if you would like to trade some rhizomes as I am going to try again. I have: -Cascade -Chinook...

With San Diego Beer Week happening next week, I'm going to the San Diego's Top Brewers book release event. All the following Breweries and head brewers will be there. AleSmith Brewing Company www.alesmith.com Ballast Point Brewing Company www.ballastpoint.com Breakwater Brewing Co...

Hop experts hopefully you can help figure out why all 3 of our hop plants have stopped growing and are slowing turning yellow. We have Magnum, Centennial and Chinook. All three were healthy chunks of a crown taken from an established hop garden/farm. We planted them in 50/50 compost and...

I have just started to adjust my water. And I have read about brewing city water profiles and also what water additives favor certain styles. Here is where I was confused. Having a CL:SO4 ratio greater than 1 should lead to a Maltier or Sweeter tasting beer...

The diacetyl has happened in my latest 3 batches (1 with S-04 and 2 with WLP028 Scottish Ale yeast) and I can't figure out why. The only thing that I have changed from my normal process is adding gelatin in the keg. This first happened in my Best Bitter which was fermented at 65-68 and done...

San Diego Beer Week is almost upon us. There are a crazy amount of events but the one I am really looking forward to is a special tasting with Eric Salazar of New Belgium. He will be explaining about brewing the following beers and also open it up to questions. - La Folie (Flanders Red Ale)...

So I was kegging some California Common last night that I dry hopped with Northern Brewer. I was thinking it seems like such a waste to throw my dry hops. People have reused them before, it was discussed in this old thread. I was just wondering if anyone sees why it is not a good substitute for...

So I made a experimental batch with this method from another thread. It was a Belgian Singel Ale that I used the dregs from Allagash Confluence Ale. I've read those dregs are a mixed culture of their house Sacc yeast and house Brett yeast. A month later I decided I'd test the gravity and give it...

So I have a new idea when it comes to making sour beer. So here are the complaints that I often hear about making sour beer: 1) Don't want to mess up the rest of your equipment 2) You don't have enough space to store the beer 3) You don't want to buy more equipment just to store beer 4) It...

So about 2 weeks ago I decided that it would be a good idea to add an Oak Dowel to my 2 month old Flanders Red. It already had a nice pellicle as you can see below. For the Oak Dowel I boiled it three times and then stuck through a sanitized rubber stopper that was drilled to fit. So after 2...

I am limited on space (live downtown San Diego) and I would like to be able to store as many sour beers as possible. So here is my idea and I am wondering if there are any comments on my thinking. After I do my primary fermentation with either a clean yeast or Belgian yeast ( I guess even...

I have been reading so many different ideas and this is what I finally ended up with. I live in a condo in Downtown San Diego so I don't have a ton of room. Plus the wife has limited my beer equipment to the closet in the office. I needed a way to organize all my equipment in the closet so I...

I am big fan of Anderson Valley beers. They are all very malt forward and seems to have a nice balance of sweetness . I have tried to find what yeast they use with no luck. I tried to ask Tuan The BEER GUY at a festival. I believe he told me they use the Whitbread yeast. But it was late in the...

I have been brewing for a few years and I'm making decent beers. My process is pretty good and I haven't had any big flaws.... until my most recent beer, it has a smell just like "malt liquor" like Olde English. I'm not very good at detecting what the exact off flavor is. This might be a DMS...

So I have limited space and limited desired quantity (5 gal batch max). I have a 15.5 keg that I received legally. I was wondering if there would be any drawbacks from just cutting the keg around the circumference at the 8 gal mark. (enough boiling clearance for a 5 gal batch even with 90 min...

My only option to get some sort of draft system into my new condo is if it can fit it in the bottom shelf of the fridge. I have heard good things about the Tap A Draft. And this will be a back-up option as I would rather have a long term solution and something I can upgrade down the road. So...

I found some parts around the yard yesterday so I built a quick hop garden. But being a first time hop growing I'm not sure how many rhizomes I should plant in this space. The section of garden is 4' by 4' and the pole is 10' with 8 pieces of twine that will be staked down. I was...

I had this idea because I wanted a cheap, small and simple brew stand. Let me know if this makes sense and/or has been tried before. This method works much better for batch sparging but could still be used for fly sparging but wouldn't make as much sense. Pro: -One Pot (2 for Fly Sparging)...