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I just wanted to find out if anyone else has had this experience fermenting with Forbidden Fruit yeast. Friday, I brewed up an Ale with 2 oz of orange peel, 2 oz coriander and some chamomile. The fermentation took off like gangbusters, so I rigged a blow off tube. Today, I replaced the blow...

Finished my mash, hit my temps, started my sparge and then the thunder rolled in (it was still sunny when I heard the first thunder booms) All of the equipment is now indoors along with my mash pot and sparge pot. Hopefully, this will clear out in an hour or two so I can start the boil. A...

I love this place! I brewed a beer over the weekend, a Nut Brown Ale with an OG of 1.045, all grain, English yeast WLP002 with a 2 liter starter (and a bit of yeast nutrient in the starter because I love my yeasties.) I only saw the slightest bit of krausen. The Dubbel fermenting in the...

I have been doing starters for a while but I recently came across an ale yeast starter recipe that called for yeast nutrient in the starter. Does anyone out here use it and is there an appreciable difference between using yeast nutrient and not using yeast nutrient?

I am wondering if it is possible to put a beer back into secondary that has already been kegged? We were at an event recently and one of our most experienced brewers had made up 2 kegs of his famous Scottish Ale... When we poured the first beer, we discovered the batches were infected with...

My fermentation space does not normally get below 74F so I have been using water baths until I can get a fridge system for fermentation. I am wondering about the temperature gradients of buckets. With the better bottle and glass carboys, I know a water bath will bring the temps down to a good...

I am planning on bottling some of my meads in beer bottles. How long can I keep the mead in there with Oxygen Barrier caps? TIA!

Here I am, warming up the honey and lemonade mixture for a second batch of light lemonade mead and I notice that my thermometer is floating lengthwise in my mixture... I remove the thermometer and realize the damn thing broke in the mead. We were able to filter out the little black balls that...

Hi everyone, Just wanted to stop by and say hello again. I did a bunch of brewing last year then I got this really great job in Tucson and was doing a daily commute of close to 2 hours each way. I got one more batch in when I started the job but with the commute and working 12 - 14 hour...

Hey everyone, Been away for a long time, been busy building solar panels and working 16 hour days so I haven't done much brewing. The temps being in the 100+ range outside haven't helped much either. I am planning a Belgium Saison next weekend since the garage temps are in the 90's... I...

I am looking to brew a saison since I can't get my fermentation temps below 72F right now with water bath and I have no room in the garage for another fridge to keep the temps lowered. I am wondering what the upper limit of temps are with the saison yeast. (I am looking at wyeast 3724 for...

We bottled a batch of cherry stout that had fermented for 14 days in primary and 3 weeks in secondary on the fruit. The FG was 1.014 when we added 5 oz corn sugar in 2 cups of water, siphoned beer onto the mixture and bottled it on 4/19. I just looked in my notes and realized that I did not...

I have a couple of liquid extract + Steeping grain recipes that I would like to make in AG. Which grain equivalents would I use? So far I have only been able to find the equivalent for pale liquid extracts. Here is the recipe that I am trying to convert: 1/2 lb 6 row barley 1/2 lb flaked...

For my birthday, I decided to brew up a dry stout and add some cherries in it later. So, I did one of the LHBS dry stout recipes (steeping grains with extract) and threw it into primary for 10 days to ferment around 64F. For secondary I took 5 lbs of Trader Joe's Frozen Sweet dark cherries and...

when you get a Severe Weather Alert... The severe weather? We are getting some rain this weekend... Not flooding, just normal rain.... From the weather bureau: FINALLY...IT HAS BEEN SOME TIME SINCE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL HAS AFFECTED THE AREA. THEREFORE...MOTORISTS WHO PLAN ON TRAVELING...

Wow, that was an interesting experience... I went ahead and tried the Nut Brown Ale recipe from this site... I am SO glad that I had 5 stepping with extract and partial mash batches under my belt before I tried this. I have learned a little something with each batch. Today, I think I crammed...

I need to free up my glass carboys for mead this summer so I decided to take the plunge and try a couple of 6 gallon Better Bottles for my beer to see what the differences might be between the two. I am wondering about the fermenting temperatures. I did a partial mash full boil yesterday...

after 1 week of carbonation to test it... I let it sit in primary for 3 weeks, it hit FG and I bottled it with 5 oz corn sugar for 5 gallons of Amber Ale. It doesn't have much carbonation, but it had more than I expected. I got bubbles in my brew, had bubbles in my mouth but it didn't have a...

So in the dream, I am brewing beer. For some reason, I needed to take the carboy outside and filter something out of it but my auto siphon wasn't working correctly. Suddenly, a bunch of white sand got into the neck of the carboy. I ran around all silly looking for another auto siphon to try to...

Thank you, Revvy, for the great "first time bottling primer"... It made bottle day go much smoother... My son came over to help us out in the yard and I was able to twist his arm to help me bottle my first batch of beer. We were able to get 2 cases worth of bottles out of it and the FG came...