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Please help me understand a thing. When a recipe says "Bring milk to 30C, add rennet and let sit", do I have to maintain the 30C temperature as the milk curdles or is it fine to let the pot cool down slowly? Thanks.

I decided to do some cleaning today. I filled my pot with water coming from the garden faucet and look at the color!? What the ...? What is going on?

In a 100% Brett beer Brett C is supposed to give pineapple flavors. Does it also give a light phenolic character to the beer? I'm looking for a light Belgian taste.

Hello, yesterday I opened couple of Flanders Red bottles I bottled in October and all I can taste/smell is vinegar, tasty vinegar actually. Does it mean my batch is completely lost? if so I have enough bottles to make salad dressings for the next decade.

I decided to replace the stainless braid inside my mash tun (a 5 Gal Igloo cooler) with a false bottom. Having recently spent shameful amounts on fittings, I wanted to do it the cheap way. This is my setup, it does work pretty well. Lowes sells bucket covers for $1.90, the diameter is...

Bottles were easy, one primes, waits three weeks and drinks. Now that I've switched to kegs I'm confused. When can I keg, when should I put put the kegs in the fridge, when should I tap them. This is what I've been doing so far: - ferment - rest in primary for 2 weeks - sometimes dry...

Hello, I just bottled my first sour batch. I did a 40% sour mash. It went through different weird smells and after almost a week - It took so long probably because I couldn't maintain a sufficiently warm temp - I added it to my main mash - at mash-out. After extraction, the wort in the boil...

It's my first attempt harvesting yeast... I confiscated an almost empty bottle of Chimay - the blue bottle - in the middle of a diner. And while my wife was apologizing to our friends, I took the bottle away to the basement. Later I fed the slurry with some light wort and transfered it to a...

Something terrible happened this evening. A bug - a sort of scarab - took a long dive into my cooled wort as I was adding water to reach the 5gal mark. I had to filter the wort into another carboy to get the bugger out. I could not resolve myself to dump the wort because of this and so...