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Hello everybody, So, here I am thinking of enrolling my brew in a beer competition - my first competition so far!. The thing is that the organisers require that we state the complete recipe with all the details of the brew. I am a bit hesitant because I am intending in the near future to...

Hello everybody, So, here I am thinking of enrolling my brew in a beer competition - my first competition so far!. The thing is that the organisers require that we state the complete recipe with all the details of the brew. I am a bit hesitant because I am intending in the near future to...

Hello everyone.. i made this imperial porter last weekend with an OG at 1.092.. super tasty wort prior to fermentation. so i used the irish 1084 and used 2L of wort as a starter and pitched it in the next day. Fermentation took off the following day (that is airlock bubbling) and after 7 days...

Hello everyone! first time im making fruitwine.. so today crushed 4.7kg fresh-frozen blueberries in 10L of water. Water in which I put half a Tbsp of Sodium Metabisulfate to: 1) 'sanitize' the water and 2) to kill of wild yeast, etc. that may be in the mix of water-blueberry Is this...

I discovered a lot of moths feasting on my grains in my loosely closed plastic bucket.. however, the grains were in plastic bags independently inside the bucket. i got rid of most of them, however, i wonder if i put Naphthalene (mothballs) in the plastic bucket (not in direct contact with...

I reckon Harviestoun's Ola Dubh and Engine Oil Porter are one of the best beers I've ever tasted, and I'd love to brew it myself.. Does anybody have any idea how one could go about? Any recipe or idea? cheers!

it seems that my 3 last batches have a lower attenuation than those suggested in the respective recipes by 5-10 points and this puzzles me. so i brewed the following: 1. irish red (og:1.052,fg:1.016) and should have been 1.011. 2. a nut brown ale (og:1.055, fg:1.024!!) and should have gone...

i really am trying to find the optimal tradeoff between malt and honey and so I brewed in the past a few honey porters, however now I want to open up the colour and flavour to a more pale ale kind. I have Schramm's hefty braggot in my secondary and in the meanwhile I want some advice on the...

i wonder how to use a counterflow plate chiller by gravity feed. how would this work? i imagine you have 2 pots, one with hot wort and one with ice cold water, at a high level. then through suction on the tubing one can transfer to two other respective pots at a lower level. and then repeat...

I have a certain point that concerns me with the brutus ten setup. It has to do with the mashing phase. I don't know if you all are familiar with it, but for those of you that are, don't you think that recirculating the mash will cause the wort to oxidize? that is, there is a pump that...

so this is a sad story. i made a wonderful brew, porter-like beer, made the wort, cooled it, aerated it and put in the fermenter. Now, I left it in there for 3 days without pitching yeast. the reason was i ran out of yeast without taking notice. so i got my yeast today and wanted to pitch it in...

I'm planning to use for the first time liquid yeast to get my wort going. so i got a wyeast propagator. i'm thinking that if I put 2 litres of water with my light dry malt extract to start up the yeast and then insert it (when its ready after 2 days) to the rest of the wort (which is 18 litres)...

I decided this time to adopt the 1-2-3 rule to check out how secondary conditioning affects the beer.. (note I haven't reached step 3 - bottling step). After the bubble rate in airlock settled down after first week I transfered beer into another fermenter without the sediment of course (i didn't...

i got a recipe in mind that requires 0.5lb of carapils.. all i got is a kilo of maltodextrin (the white sugar-like powder).. can i sub for the carapils grain ? if so, when in the process should incorporate it, e.g. after boiling, and how much? cheers

pH 3.85 post fermentation is okay? pre-fermentation (after boil) pH was 5.5. in 9 days SG went from 1.068 to 1.007. tastes great though, even though i had an impression it was a bit acidic.. if its too low, what should i do? haven't bottled yet.. thanks for any help..

Does anyone know if I can sub Lalvin d47 yeast with something else? my lhbs doesn't deal it and i'm planning to brew the hefty braggot recipe..cheers!

Wonder if somebody has any clever tasty recipe given following poor grainbill: 3kg Crystal Malt 3kg Amber Malt 1.5kg Amber Malt Extract Cascade, golding hops.. and loads of honey (love braggots)!! these are leftovers before my next big buy, but can't wait another month till they come...

I'm planning to build a chamber to store carboys for the duration of fermentation. My idea is to construct a wooden box sized e.g. 3x3x1.7 metres with insulation and to place a thermostat with a airconditioning module to regulate the temperature to say 20C. Please critique. cheers, andreas

Hello to all of you brewmasters! nice to join your homebrew forum. I have previously found several of your comments and issues on this site very productive and helpful as a beginner and amateur brewer. I have really dealt with the art of meadmaking (since I beekeep as well when I steal a...

can anyone predict the output of this kind of honey porter? combining the outstanding properties of the fine porter beer by Anchor (clone) with the aromatics of honey.... can anyone brain storm with me on this recipe? seems to me a :rockin: autumn project! cheers mates! andre