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I'm making a coffee stout, and I've decided that I want to use cold brewed coffee. I've seen different techniques for cold-brewing, and the proper steps for sanitation, but one option that I haven't seen here is store-bought cold brewed coffee. Probably going to get a bottle from a local...

Not with WLP007 apparently... Pitched a nice healthy yeast starter into my Imperial Stout yesterday about 1pm. Kept checking throughout the evening and no real signs of fermentation starting, but I knew it was cool. Woke up this morning and saw two small puddles of dark brown liquid...

So, right now in my ferm fridge I have an IPA that has been dry-hopping for 5 days, and I want to bottle it on Wed (2 days from now). Lots of pellets still floating on the top, and I want to get a nice clear beer, so I plan on cold crashing it tonight. In the fermentation fridge, I also have...

I've always read that sparge water should be 170 degrees and no higher. Which I've always thought that means, heat up your water to 170 and then sparge. Recently, trying to get some more clarification on my technique, I've seen it said to heat your water to 180-185, to bring temp in the mash...

So, I boiled up my water/dextrose solution for bottling and put it in the fridge for a quick cool-down. One thing led to another and I ran out of time to be able to bottle that evening, but the solution is still in the fridge, in the saucepan covered. It's been a couple of day, and I think I...

Which would you use as a bittering (60 min) hop?

Big Aluminum pots, probably really weak handles, but $10 for a 10 gallon pot?!? $24 for a 13 gallon pot?!? Looks like a good deal to me, until I can afford to get a keggle set-up Edit: I meant $20 for the 10 gal... :drunk:

Wait!!! Stop!! Before you go there, let me start by saying that I know the laws. I've seen the hundreds of threads by someone who thought they found some kind of loophole, or are only selling on the down-low. I'm not talking about any of that... Let me start by saying this is only in the...

Long story short*, I wanted to make two batches with the same yeast, but had to get two different strains, WLP001 and WLP051. I'm thinking about blending these for my brew day tomorrow, and wondering what you all think. Got two separate starters going now. Should I blend now? Or wait...

I'm actually going to do all three eventually... I've got 6oz. Each of these hops and I want to make some single hop APA's. I'm going to start with two of these, and then the third later. Which would you do first? Do you think each of these will make a nice brew? Any good base APA recipe you...

So the last couple of batches I've made have been small batches. 3 & 2 gallons. They're both in the fermenter in 5 gal carboys. Yeah, I know that's a lot of headspace, but I was thinking I'm not planning on secondary, and the gas from fermentation should keep the oxy out. But now, I'm ready...

#42 The hose water in the morning is cold enough that I don't have to run my IC through a pre-chiller! Just brewed my first early morning batch today (started around 8, finished by 11:30) and the best part was my wort chilled down to pitching temps in about 15 minutes. Usually I run it for...

One of my favorite styles is Brown Ale, and more specifically, American Brown Ale. It seems to be harder and harder to find new examples of this style, at least at the bottle shops I go to. It seems like for every brown ale I find, there are a couple dozen IPAs, Stouts and Belgian whatevers...

**if this all apears too long to read, just skip to my question in the last paragraph!** ;) So I finally got a nice big turkey-fryer, package says 30 qt. 7-1/2 gallons, right? After reading Gordon Strong's book, I knew I wanted to make a measure stick. Adding gallons and half gallons and...

Kids won't get off the computer, And the search function on the phone doesn't work too well, so... Sorry! How do I know if my hops are ready for harvest? I'm sure there's a thread already on this subject, can someone point me to a link?

..and so you start drinking it up, and as you get to the last few bottles you realize how much better it is now and wish you had waited longer or slowed down? I'm on one of my last few bottles of Chocolate Oatmeal Cream Stout and it tastes so much better than the last one I had a couple of...

So I've got the ingredients to brew a Golden (Jami's recipe from Brewing Classic Styles) and I have a couple of questions when it comes to bottling time. He says to carbonate to 4 volumes, but he doesn't say anything about length of fermentation or secondary or anything. I've been reading...

So i'm ready to bottle these lagers, and per the wiki I'm going to throw in about a 1/4-1/2 a package of hydrated dry yeast to help with the bottle conditioning. One thing I have not found here is the temperature of the beer, do I keep it at the lagering temp (it's about 35 degrees now) or do I...

So I made a simple calculator on Google Docs, an Extract Conversion Calculator, but the results keep rounding to whole numbers even though I have it set to display .00 decimals. Can anyone look and see what I'm doing wrong? Here's the link.

So I planted some rhizomes last year, and I don't think they got enough sun, so I was thinking of moving them to a sunnier place. Any tips on digging these up and moving them? I do already have a couple of sprouts coming up on each one...