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I am (hopefully, if I can get done with the “honey-do list”) going to make a witbier this weekend, even though this is the third week I’ve said this…anyway… I have been reading on lallemands website about best practices for their Belgian Wit strain and it suggests pitching at a lower rate in...

I have an IPA that I intend to dry hop and I have taped the top onto my bucket fermenter with a lot of electrical tape ( because I like to seal my fermenter for whatever reason) so I don’t really want to wrassle with the 30 feet of tape I put on there and my only other option seems to be popping...

I just finished my mash and was heating my wot to a boil when I looked in my kettle to admire my work and there is almost a soapy foam (suds?) on top of the wort. I’m pretty sure I didn’t leave any cleany stuff in there ( maybe a bit of star san). I tasted it and it doesn’t taste like soap so...

So I was running a witbier recipe through Brewfather and wanted to make more than my usual 3 gallons in my 6.5 Anvil foundry (because I really like witbiers) and Brewfather spit out a “top up” amount for the water since that water would (presumably) cause an overflow or some other near...

I just poured the last of my brown ale (from my very first all grain batch/first batch in a decade), retired to my bed to “watch my stories”, took my first sip… …and it tastes amazing! Like better than the others from this batch. Or is that just a psychological thing because it’s the last one...

My friend recently retired from the military and moved to The Philippines, this makes drinking beer with my oldest friend rather difficult as you can imagine. I have been kicking around the idea of shipping him some of my brews to this knucklehead but I don't really know if that's possible...

My current pipeline is as follows: Drinking: water Coffee Conditioning: Brown ale Fermenting: Porter Thats it. My next brew day should be next month some time. I'm aiming for one BD every month or two depending on how much beer I have on hand (I don't drink a whole lot and my wife prefers...

I just finished cleaning up from making a porter. My youngest daughter got up early to help and she absolutely rocked it! We hit all of our numbers and everything went smoothly. The only hiccup was me burning myself on the metal recirculation thingie while getting a wort sample like a big...

I just finished cleaning/prepping for my brew day and while doing so I introduced, by way of being a big dummy, a good bit of dog hair into my equipment which made a "quick" 30 minute clean turn into an hour and a half. We have dogs and hardwood/tile floors, dogs have fur, and it seems that no...

I'm kicking around a witbier for summer (trying to plan ahead or whatever) and I was trying to source some ingredients locally because its easier to slip an ingredient here and there into the grocery pickup than to justify ordering stuff and paying shipping etc... anyway... While looking on...

I finished my first brew yesterday morning (about 12 hours ago) and I'm not seeing any activity/bubbles etc. I am well aware that I might just be doing "the thing" and worrying about....well...nothing. But on the off chance that it isn't "nothing", I want to get ahead of it if I can. What I...

I’m pretty stoked about it. I was going to post this in “my brew day got postponed” thread but it didn’t get postponed and now I have beer fermenting in the garage. Everything went well, I even hit my pre boil and OG which I figured I would have messed up. My strike water temp was off so my...

Brew...night? I was going to brew an American brown ale tonight and got all my grains crushed and everything else weighed out and cleaned my anvil foundry.... again, then realized that I don't have any distilled water to calibrate my refractometer. I have since found a workaround but it's like...

Hello, my name is Ian and I recently got back into brewing after about a ten year hiatus. I decided to go with all grain this time around so I'll have lots of questions and stories about knuckleheaded stuff to share.