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a friend recently made a mead and noticed that it was not fermenting like prior batches. It turns out that instead of adding yeast nutrient, he added yeast stabilizer. Is there a way to neutralize the stabilizer so fermentation can occur? possibly heat to 170 F or so, cool and repitch...

I am planning on using making a chocolate raspberry imperial stout based off the Northern Brewer imperial stout kit and have some questions. The modifications I am thinking about are: 1. adding 1# flaked oats and 1# base malt mashed for 1 hr at 152 deg F 2. after fermentation, racking...

I have previously brewed a DIPA / strong ale using centennial and cascade hops and was going to brew again with additional hops, but looking for suggestions on the hopping strategy. previously I used: 1 lb biscuit - steep 45 min at 155 1 lb munich - steep 45 min at 155 1 lb crystal 20 -...

have recently brewed the northern brewer black IPA extract kit, which is currently bottle conditioning (but tasted quite good at the time of bottling). When mentioning this to a friend they thought I said "black eyed pea A." This has me considering the possible use of black eyed peas in a...

have recently brewed a bourbon barrel porter (extract kit from northern brewer) using 2 oz medium toast american oak and 24 oz Maker's Mark bourbon in secondary for 2 weeks thought about using the bourbon and oak for their imperial stout kit - any ideas on changing the amount of oak, bourbon...

fairly new to homebrewing (about 10 extract batches so far), and just got the northern brewer imperial stout extract kit with Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale yeast. upon opening the package, the smack pack is already expanded. if I keep this refrigerated will it still be OK when I get around to...