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After brewing a quick Scottish 70/- (2 weeks in the carboy) for competition, I submitted it with the fear of diacetyl due to the short conditioning time. I kept tabs on the quality of the beer as it carbed and was very disappointed to find a large amount of diacetyl in the finished product...

I'm going to be brewing a Best Bitter (1.040) this weekend and want to slightly under pitch my London ESB yeast for a good amount of ester production. The last time I brewed an English Bitter I made a good starter, and as a result, the esters just weren't there. Mr Malty says to add 1.8 smack...

So I primed my 4.5 gallon alt beer using the BrewBot app. It asked for beer temp, which for some reason I assumed was the temp the beer would be sitting at for the next three weeks (70F), not the temp it was at during the time of bottling (60F). Stupid. It's been a while since I've brewed...

Thinking of using heading powder for my kolsch in which I used Irish moss, cold crashed, then used bio fine to really clear it up. I'm bottling half with some additional yeast and kegging the rest. Concerned about head retention so I bought brewcraft heading powder which says it contains...

So I made my first extract batch in a while and under shot my og by about 7 pts (1.054 instead of 1.061 before adding sugar). My plan is to add 2.25-2.5 lbs of sugar to the fermenter, however this makes my sugar additives at 22-25%. Triples are recommended being no more than 20%. A thought is...

Sorry if this has been posted already, I did a quick search without results and I'm kind of in a rush. I'll be leaving town in two days and my hops are about ready to harvest. If I leave a fan on them from Saturday to Wednesday I'm sure I can get them dry. Is there a concern about over drying...

I am currently soaking my oak chips in Irish whiskey and filled it until it just hit the top of the chips. Now they've soaked up the whiskey and the liquor is about half as much as it was, exposing the top layer of chips to the air in the tupperware container. Any worry about mold or any type...

I have just brewed up a 6% abv stout and will be aging it on oak and vanilla. Question about how to incorporate the ingredients. I have oak cubes now and i think I going to replace them with chips, because I don't want to age this beer for months, which I hear is the difference between chips...

I have a bunch of flowers on my cascades right now and the burrs are looking like they're turning brown. I hope they're not dying. Is this normal when the flowers turn to cones, or is it an issue to deal with?

PICS ADDED BELOW... I have looked on every site possible to understand the reason for my yellowing hop leaves and I was hoping for some additional insight. I am sure that I'm either over watering, over fertilizing, or under fertilizing, that is causing these leaves to yellow. I guess my...

My two container hops have been growing very well for me in the spot where I put them. They get about 6 hours of sun on the main leaves and bines, although the new growth is growing into a spot that has less sun. The new growth is of course the growth with the hop buds and is getting about 5...

I have a cascade plant growing pretty strong, but when it hit about seven feet I tried to train it on a horizontal line. Of course the top snapped off! I know that it will grow side arms now which will grow hops, but did I decrease my hop yield because the tip broke, or will the plant...

I have a question about this article. I know that it is preached to not trim any bines for first year hops to establish a good root system, but this article (very informative by the way) makes it seem that it is necessary to trim all but two or three. The article may be talking about older hops...

So I kind of asked this under the yeast/fermentation section, but I thought I'd throw out a different kind of question here. I just made a blonde ale last night and instead of buying the Nottingham yeast, as indicated in the recipe, my LHBS suggested using a London Ale yeast. I took this...

I am in the process of a blonde ale, which called for using a nottingham yeast, although my guy at the LHBS suggested using a London Ale due to it's high flocculation. After reading up on it, it has medium-low flocculation! I want really clear beer, and not beer with yeast suspended. Will...

Just calibrated my thermometer, after already doing multiple all grain batches, and realized that I've been mashing 10f higher than the actual temp. So instead of mashing at 150-153f, ive been mashing at 140-143f! Could this be the reason for my poor efficiency? I figured it was off because...

My next beer is going to be a blonde that is dry hopped. I want this to come out crystal clear so I'm going to cold crash and use finings. Is the best way to do this 1) dry hop, use finings, then cold crash 2) dry hop, cold crash, then finings, or 3) use finings, dry hop, cold crash? Or is...

My 2 year old (being a 2 year old) decide to dump a half of a bottle of bubble solution onto the new shoots of my cascade container hops. I've got five little guys trying to make it. I doused the pot with water, hoping to dilute the bubble solution, but I'm not sure if there'd be any negative...

One sprout is up on my container hops and we got a late season snowfall. I thought the threat of frost was over and although it's technically over freezing temps, 33f, the snow is sticking. How will this affect my hops?

I'm on my second keg of beer that is not clearing as it should. I previously made an IPA and am now on an Irish Red that I was hoping would crash the yeast and clear after a couple of pints. It's been over a week of pouring beer and it's still cloudy. After my keg of IPA was crashed, I looked...