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So I made a starter last night. Its been going for about 18 hours. The yeast is WLP002 English Ale and it was packaged on Sept 29th. Generally before I pour my yeast out of the vial I shake it up to get all of the cells in suspension. Upon doing so this yeast was very "chunky" for lack of a...

I am running a single keg through 10' of 3/8" beer line at 10 psi. My first pour off of the handle is ALWAYS nothing but foam. if I immediately pour a second pint I get a nice 3/4" head on the beer. I carbonate for 48 hours at 30 psi, vent all pressure, bring the beer up to 10 psi. It...

Currently my wife stays at home to care for our two children and I am the breadwinner in the family. I make a good salary but we are far from living high on the hog. I already have equipment for both all grain and kegging. Currently I spend roughly $20 per 5.5 gallon batch; I rinse and save my...

Has anyone tried using multiple bags for better efficiency for larger grain bills? The reason I ask is that with my normal cooler set up I generally hit the 85% range with my efficiency. I recently did a few BIAB style brews and my efficiency was comparable but each batch had small grain...

I am about to start building a draft setup. i am probably going to have to piece it out from used and sale parts. I am doing a simple two keg system in a minifridge. I know it will grow into more. For the time being I am going with two kegs, a dual body regulator, tubing, 5 lb CO2 tank, and...

So in the 4-5 years I have been doing this, I have not had a fermentation look like this. I feel like i have good sanitation practices, I know the little brown things are yeast rafts, what has me worried is the flim/bubbles. The beer smells fine, the beer tastes fine. The gravity has not dropped...

Several times now I have brewed the same recipe without any changes, yet I have noticed the flavor contributions of my dark malts varies. My mash temps have not changed by more than 2 degrees F, I have kept my mashing and sparging techniques consistent along with boil times and hop additions. I...

My wife and I have a baby on the way, its a girl. My wife just decided she wants beer at the baby shower and requested a pink beer. When you wife requests that you make a beer you do not say no...EVER! So my first thought was a grapefruit wheat ale. I have 5 weeks to brew, ferment, and bottle...

roughly 50 12 oz bottles and 12 22 oz bottles. All of the 12oz bottles have logos from the brewery they were brewed at (sam adams, new belgium, bridgeport, etc). Free to a good brewer. I am tossing them in the dumpster tonight if no one is interested. PM me your contact info if you want to come...

SO I have been fighting off this problem for some time and something tells me that its not how things are supposed to work. My bottles beers keep building pressure. The first 3-8 weeks the beers are fine in the bottle over time they keep building pressure. I just opened some beers I forgot about...

So I have decided that I want to do an experiment. I want to do a few single hop ipa's but for the different hop varieties I want to familiarize myself with I know I do not have the time now the capacity to brew a 5 gallon batch of each. Instead my plan is to start off with a pretty neutral...

SO I have done some digging around over the past week and I am not finding a whole lot of information on this. I am using polyclar for the first time to try and clear a beer. I have read a lot about filtering it before kegging and force carbing. There have only been very few things I have found...

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have an amber ale a brewed back in the beginning of September. It was tasting fine the past few weeks after bottle conditioning but there is a chemical like taste starting to develop in the bottles. I have had this same flavor happen with...

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So I have a stout that I brewed in july that I have a few questions about. When I brewed this, it was a roasty, malty delicious monster. I put a few bottles away to age for a competition and the results were not favorable. The beer went way out of balance. The malty notes faded out and my...

Ok so all I know about electricity and electronics is that are full of magic and voodoo. I have a stir plate I built out of a 12v computer fan and some neodimium magnets. I am getting a bit of stir action with 2L of water or when making cold brewed coffee but I was wanting to get a little more...

I am just looking for a cheap fermentation controller. Digital or analog are both fine. I don't trust my skills putting together electrical devices to build my own. If anyone has one laying around not being used let me know what you want for it and maybe we can work something out.

I have done a little digging around on here for information about making yeast starters. One of my biggest questions that I have not been able to get a clear answer on is this; what size starter should I make? I have built a stir plate out of old computer parts, it works....usually. I am sure I...

I just brewed a blue moon clone (ag). I used wyeast belgian wit yeast, first time using it. Has been fermenting away for 2 weeks at about 67 F. I popped open the bucket today for gravity/flavoring sample and was greeted by a layer krausen still floating on top. Smells fine, took my sample and it...

So I made a mint chocolate coffee stout recently. I split the batch as a coffee stout and the mint chocolate version. The coffee stout came out great, the mint chocolate stout was barely drinkable. I added a "chocolate concentrate" of my own making at bottling ignoring the fact that even baking...