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Hey guys, I was planning on brewing a cream ale this weekend and bought a vial of WLP060. Looking at the manufacturing date, though, it says Feb. 8, 2018, which is quite a ways away. Mrmalty tells me I'll need 7 vials for a 1L starter or 4 vials for a 2L starter, which aren't possibilities...

Hey folks, I just thought I'd ask around since I'm in the process of reworking some of my brewing practices. For the better part of the last 2 years since I've started brewing again, I've had a pretty big battle with diacetyl. Not all beers were affected, but most were, and some quite badly...

Hey folks, Pretty much all of the gypsum available to me from the home improvement stores here is the hemihydrate variation (CaSO4 x 0.5H2O). Before I resort to ordering the dihydrate variety from the internet, I thought I'd ask if there is any significant difference to using hemihydrate in...

I've decided to get more serious with my brew water. I looked into it about a year ago and played around mostly with getting my mash pH to a good place (via lactic acid), but I've only been using my tap water as the water source for my beers. I'd like to start not only getting mash pH on point...

Hey folks, Been thinking about getting my hands on a Tilt Hydrometer (or similar) to give me a better idea of where my fermenting beer is at. Since the Tilt also gives a temp readout, I thought it would probably provide more accurate readings than a temp probe attached to the side of my...

Hey folks, I have a keezer at home that I'm quite fond of, and while kegging makes the racking procedure 10 times easier, it's not quite as easy anymore to bring my beer over to a friend's place or party. So far it hasn't been a problem if I just need to bring a bottle or two, cause I just fill...

Hi all, Unfortunately, I've been dealing with a consistent off-flavor in pretty much all of my beers since I started brewing again just over a year ago. I've been trying to narrow down the possible causes for the off-flavor, but so far, I've had little luck in finding and eliminating it. I...

Hey folks, Was just curious where you guys and gals put your probes inside your keezers. I'm trying to get my beer to 4C, but so far, the methods I've tried don't really get me there. I tried putting the probe in a 1.5L coke bottle filled with water. My tapped beer was at 13C. I then...

Anyone familiar with this brand? One of the online home brew stores here in Germany carries Zymoferm yeast (as the sole distributor I believe), but I was curious if anyone's made any experience with them. Their yeast is fairly cheap compared to the usual alternatives (Safale, WL, Wyeast...

Hey all, Just a quick question: will conditioning a beer without carbing have an impact on its conditioning? Let's say I brew a beer that needs 3 weeks warm conditioning. Could I just technically rack it to keg from the fermentation bucket, seal it, let it sit for 3 weeks, then hook it up...

Hi everyone, I've started taking water for mashing more seriously as I live in a city with relatively hard water with high residiual alkalinity, Berlin. As a result, I've bought 80% lactic acid to add to my mash water to bring the PH down to around 5.6. After finding out my water profile...

Hey all, The CO2 bottle for my keezer should be arriving in a few days so I can finalize the interior setup of my keezer. I plannd on using one CO2 tank to distribute the gas to all 3 kegs, meaning that the pressure on each tank will be equal. In other words, I'll likely have it set at...

So I've decided to build a keezer with three taps and have been reading up on how to make sure that I'll get some nice pours with it. I found a website that calculates proper hose length for the beer line and plugged all of my information in. Given that it's a keezer, I can't see the tap...

Hi everyone, Anyone have experience brewing with this yeast? I ordered a pack on a whim and it's the last one I have lying around. I want to brew a bit of a high gravity winter ale for Jan/Feb and thought why not. I haven't found much discussion surrounding this yeast. Has anyone tried it...

I recently tried my second attempt at making a stout after trying many years ago and ending up with an infected batch. I cooked up a recipe on BeerSmith and had some good success in executing it about 20 days ago. While waiting for the beer to finish up in the bottles, I was wondering about...

Hey everyone, I recently put together a fermentation chamber consisting of a chest freezer and an ITC 308. I did a quick test run with the freezer on max and after reaching the target temp. it continued to drop about 10C while the freezer was off. I was wondering if anyone else has a...

Hi all, I'm planning on brewing a hoppy amber lager as one of my summer beers as I now have a reliable fermentation chamber with temperature control. :rockin: This'll be the first lager I ever brew, so I'm not really sure about the good/bad yeasts. Any recommendations for this? At the...

Hi everyone, I took about a 4 year hiatus from brewing due to having to move countries, but I finally got around to getting everything set up. To cut to the chase, I thought I'd try something a bit experimental and brew somewhat of a hybrid witbier. I wrote up a recipe for a 5 liter (1.3...

Hi everyone, I moved countries back in 2012 and sold all of my homebrewing equipemnt in the process, as it was too expensive to ship everything over. I've been getting the itch to brew again, although after having successfully built a kegerator, I can't go back to bottling. I'm in...

I'm trying to build together a kegerator set up, and I'm a little confused about the fittings. Here is the run down: I have an old Coke keg with pin locks. I'm planning on buying two Pin Lock Flare QDs. The way I understand it, there's a nut and a barb. The flare QDs available at the site...