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I am looking to tailor my current water for use in NEIPAs, my water report is below: ppm Sodium, Na 28 Potassium, K 2 Calcium, Ca 20 Magnesium, Mg 7 Total Hardness, CaCO3 79 Nitrate, NO3-N 4.4 (SAFE) Sulfate, SO4-S 8 Chloride, Cl 32 Carbonate, CO3 < 1.0 Bicarbonate, HCO3...

So here in NY we had a very long winter and I wasnt able to cut back first growth on my 5 year old plants until 2 weeks ago. Now it is mid May and my parents landscapers literally chopped all the shoots that were starting to come back. May 13th and Im back to square one. Being as pissed off as...

So I have a mixed fermentation sour brown ale going right now. I sampled the wort 2 days after adding some lacto brevis and the wort was at 3.7pH and smelled like my typical kettle soured wort. I then added belgian ardennes which took off within 24 hours. I just took a sample and the pH is now...

I see that there is another thread or two on this but I have not found much of a consensus about what to do when your dried harvested hops are crawling with these bugs. They seemed good when we picked them, then within 24 hours I noticed a very significant amount of tiny tiny little aphids...

So I am brewing a HUGE barleywine and had everything added and was ready to finish the boil and get ready to chill and forgot to add the 1.5lbs of dextrose that i planned to put in. Now im chilling and look over to see the container on the table. I without thinking add it to the kettle but the...

So I was using saniclean for the first time today and sanitized my clean stainless conical and brew hoses with it. Everything had been PBW'd the day before so definitely clean. I forgot it is half as strong as starsan so I only used half an oz per 3 gallons instead of the full oz. The conical...

So I am in my 4th year with my cascade and chinook plants. Ive never really gotten a good harvest so I redid my trellis to give them a taller and more vertical growth. They have absolutely been coming in thicker and healthier as a result but I have an issue that seems to be coming back again...

So I brew on a 3 BBL HERMS system at the moment and am equipped with I believe the Duda Diesel 60 plate chiller. I don't remember exactly which one but it is probably the biggest one they offer considering the size of the system it is built into. I am currently trying to figure out how to get my...

So I have 2 x 4-year old plants going right now, one a cascade and one a chinook. I prepped the soil and built a new trellis and the plants have both come in stronger than ever this year. I have about 8-10 strong bines coming off each plant, each separated into 2 strings going about 18-20 feet...

So I recently bought the yeast bay lactobacillus blend vial and decided to make a starter to grow the culture and collect some in a jar for future batches. I made a 1.8L starter in a flask with foam stopper and followed my procedure for any other yeast starter, except I only turned on the stir...

So i am about to fill a firkin cask here at our brewery and will be adding 2 spiral sticks of french oak each broken into 3rds and soaked with bourbon for 2 days. Do you guys think i should put the spiral sticks in a bag or would they be ok free floating inside the firkin?

Could really use my friend Nelson right about now. If anyone has a pound (or a few), I would gladly take that off your hands provided that the cost isn't ridiculous. Could maybe ship a bottle or two of my finest as a thank you.:mug:

Greetings. So I have been extensively brewing hoppy kettle soured beers both at home and commercially for the last year or so. Most have been around 5-6% abv and have never had an issue fully attenuating with us-05/cali ale. At home the other week I decided to brew my first Imperial kettle sour...

So I have a big bag of really nice cacao nibs i received from a chocolate maker about a year to a year and a half ago. I used a bunch but could not use nearly all of it over the course of the last winter brewing season. I was wondering if you guys think they would still be good to use. They have...

So I brewed a brown ale two days ago and began fermentation with the california V yeast. I had it at 70*F to help start fermentation and last night went to chill it down to 60ish for the bulk if fermentation. I stupidly forgot about it and woke up with my beer sitting at 40*F. I set my temp back...

So I'm in the process of doing a kettle soured wheat beer. My plan is to boil for 60 minutes, chill, add lacto, sour for 3 days, boil for 30 minutes to target volume and then ferment. I stupidly added my irish moss at the end of tonights pre-sour 60 minute boil. So this means it will be in the...

So I've been excessively interested in harvesting wild yeast lately and had a less than successful attempt with leaving open jars of wort outside. This time around I made a starter broth of 1liter with 80 grams of dme and 5 hop pellets of galena hops. I then went out and picked the flower...

So I'm currently on my 3rd year with some Cascade and Chinook plants. I seemed to have a slight aphid problem last year but still wound up with a small harvest. This year I have an infestation going with these bugs I have never seen before. They resemble a caterpillar with the legs of a spider...

So I've had a basic saison made with 3711 French saison and a bunch of sterling hop late additions/dry hop. I added the brett brux right from the white labs tube with the 3711 and aged it for about 3 months before dry hopping and kegging. It seemed to be pretty clean and mellow for the most part...

So I recently purchased some probiotic lacto plantarum capsules for kettle sours and brewed the wort today. I wanted to lower the pH to 4.5 before adding the lacto so I used 3 teaspoons in 7.5 gallons of preboil wort which got me right where I wanted. After, I noticed a considerable lactic smell...