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Wondering if I should re-use the yeast cake from my smoked ipa (which had 1lb smoked malt in it) for a regular ipa. Anyone have experience re-using yeast from a smoked beer? Does the flavor carry through? I was going to use fresh yeast, but i just noticed a tiny fly or bug of some sort in my...

This is my filter And this is the result. My 1 micron filtered beer is on the left looking totally hazy. The beer on the right is for comparison, it's a commercial beer (Maui Brewing IPA). If I filter with a 1 micron filter should not my beer be clear? I don't think the cartridge system...

I brewed a IIPA with all Simcoe. Way too much grapefruit.. tastes like tart grapefruit juice, not an exaggeration. I was going to dry hop w/ more Simcoe, but I can't handle any more grapefruit. What hop would be a good dry hop to counter or complement the grapefruit? Maybe something sweet...

I recently kegged my first beer, a pumpkin ale. Now I want to add more spices and more lactose. If I turn off the pressure and vent will I be able to open the lid w/ out carbonated beer erupting out?

This is really pissing me off. 2nd, 3rd and 4th beers all have this stuff floating. It's the same thing, whatever it is. The beer tastes great, isn't over carbed, haven't gotten bottle bombs.. so what is it? Witbier Pliny Clone Chocolate Coconut Porter

About 1/4 of the bottles from my pliny clone, bottled about a month ago, have stuff floating in them. Is that normal for a beer w/ over a pound of pellet hops (could they be pellet particles??) or did I have some sort of sanitization issue? So far they taste fine and there is no over...

...or could it be infection? I sampled after a week and it is at 73% attenuation. Tastes like the first two beers I brewed did at this point...except a lot more coconutty! But what the heck is up with this krausen? I added 6lbs of coconut to this porter in the last 15 mins of the boil...

Brewing a chocolate coconut Baltic porter, but I just read about a guy who got an infected beer from adding cocoa nibs to secondary, which I am planning on doing, and I got mine from a big dispenser at a hippie store on Maui, so if there are any cocoa nibs with bugs on em, these are them. I am...

This beer has an A+ on Beer Advocate:rockin:, won Gold at the 2006 GABF:rockin:, oh man do I want to brew this thing. Anyone have the recipe? I read somewhere it was in Zymurgy in Jan 2007, but not sure.

I have never heard of this before... Alaskan Smoked Porter Recipe From the Maltose Falcons website, 2003 Alaskan Smoked Porter recipe, "This beer utilizes one of my favorite techniques for softening the hard acidic edge found from heating your dark roast malts. The pound of chocolate malt...