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I bottle my beer. I rinse out bottles immediately after drinking, then let dry. I sanitize with starsan just before bottling. I am starting to get a white residue on some bottles. The residue is on the glass and goes from the bottom to the neck (point where the top of the beer line...

What is the largest starter I can do in a 2000ML Flask on a stir plate without having any overflow/blowoff issues?

Doing my first steam beer. Looking for pointers/advise from all aspects, including yeast starter, time in primary, fermentation temperature, ETC. Using San Fran Lager yeast WPL810. Thanks, John :mug:

Planning my first Steam Beer for next week. I will be doing a starter with White Labs San Fran Lager yeast WPL810. I plan to ferment the beer in a swamp cooler/ice bath to maintain 60F. My question is.....what temp do I build my starter at? I have only done ale's until now. I will be...

Doing my first starter with a stir plate. How fast do I want to spin the stir bar? Do I need to vortex to actually get down to the stir bar and suck air or just almost all the way there? Mookie

Using beersmith. What temp do I want to input when calculating the amount of priming sugar/DME. In the past I have used 68F which is my beer storage temp, but seem to get high carbonation. Should the temp be the temp that I plan to drink at (ie something more like 38F) This would bring the...

Brewed an Aussy Ale Sat. Today is Fri. Beer Smith said OG 1.052 and FG 1.014. My actual OG was 1.052. After 6 days in the bucket I have FG of 1.006. Gravity testing done with hydrometer. My Mash was at 154F Just as Beer Smith wanted. My question is......I took the FG from the...

I am thinking of using a 1 gallon glass jug for a starter vessel and am curious if it will be ok on a stir plate. Seems like everybody used a conical flask, but a 5000 ml one is $40 plus shipping. I can have a glass jug for $5. Thanks, Mookie

I typically do 5.5 gallon batches in a 6.5 gallon plastic fermentation bucket. I have had several batches that the krausen gets up to the lid and blows off a little bit. My last batch, I decided to just set the lid lose on the top of the bucket to avoid the possibility of a messy situation...

Carefully opened my vial of White Labs this morning. Opened very slowly but still managed to lose about 1/2 of the vial do to foaming out of the cap. I added the rest to a 1 quart starter. Will this be enough yeast in the starter to grow into enough yeast for a 5 gallon batch. This is...

Late hop addition V.S. Dry hopping? Seems to me that late hop addition does very little. Not enough time for bitterness extraction and too little time in contact with the wort for flavor extraction. Currently sampling my first Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone. The hop fragrance seems to be...

Just finished my first AG Batch. SNPA Clone that I made up on my own based on some recipes that I found on the web and merged together. As an extract brewer that has 11 extracts under his belt................I just want to say that ALL GRAIN IS FREAKING FUN. Did the beersmith thing for...

Doing my first cold crash. Do I go strait to bottling or should I let the beer warm up a bit before bottling. Also, plan to wash the yeast. Do I need to let it warm up to room temp before I add the room temperature washing water? Thanks, John

Milling question. Should I mill my grain dry or should I "condition" the grain first. Information on conditioning the grain from the Home Brew Wiki is interesting, but curious if anybody actually conditions. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Evaluating_the_Crush I plan to...

Still setting up for my first AG brew date. I plan to do a 5.5 gallon batch of a Sierra Clone. Recipe calls for 11 lbs of grain. Using the mash a sparge calculator for Brew365.com, I get 3.44 gallons of water for the Mash and 5.36 gallons of water for the sparge. I plan to start with 6.5...

Getting ready to do my first all grain batch in a couple of weeks. 5.5 gallon batch. My boil pot is a 30 quart turkey fryer. I would like to start with 7.0 gallons, but that really takes my pot to the top. What I am thinking of doing, is starting the boil with about 5.5 gallon. Doing hop...

I currently have an IPA in the fermenter. (Ale Pail). In the past, I have always just transfered to bottling bucket and bottled. This time, I am thinking of cold crashing in the garage for a couple of days first to try to really clear the beer. Is there any potential problem with dropping out...

Want to enter all grain brewing. Mostly plan to do 5 gallon batch IPA's. Starting gravity 1.060 or less. Please advise as to what size cooler would be best.

What is the best way to store a partial bag of pellet hops. I see a lot of recipes that use only 1/2 oz or 1/3 oz of hops. I only brew about once per month and do not want to waste those pricey hops.

Recipe question. The batch that is in my primary is a recipe that I kinda created but followed basic IPA formulation but modified with Chocolate malt. 7 lbs light dme 1 lb crystal malt hot steeped 2 oz chocolate malt cold steeped, added juice to the boil with the first cascade addition...