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not sure if this is the right place to put this, but is my brew infected. Did this on saturday. It was my first brew in over 3 years :/ thanks guys!

so im setting up to bottle right now and I took a sample of the beer to get a gravity reading. The sample I got is really merky so im assuming it has a lot of the trub/yeast in it. When i tasted it, it was sour. so i was worried about it and thought that maybe its infected. I haven't had an...

when's the best time to add lactose? I see some people throw it in at the boil, some at bottling, what's the difference? thanks

has anyone here tried it yet? I got 3 24oz bottles right now and im cooling one in the fridge to enjoy in a few hours. What do you guys think? From what I know, this is a very limited beer. If I like what I taste later, i'm gonna pick up more before they're gone forever.

hey guys, i have a beer that I want to increase the OG from 1.064 by an additional 1% abv. But I want to keep the ratio of the grains the same... all it is, is two-row 11 lbs. and crystal 40L 1 lbs. I want to bring it up a bit, but I don't want the flavor to change.

anyone here try making this before? how did you like it if you have and how is the body on it? I'm planning on ordering it this weekend so I can brew up a new batch of beer this coming week, i've got nothing in primary now since I just bottled up my cascadian dark ale. oh yeah, I got this...

its only been in the bottle for 10 days, but I just couldn't help myself :ban: i wanted to see how the carbonation is doing and its awesooooooooooooooome!!! :rockin: I was expecting nothing but it's already pretty close to full carbonation and this is an 11%abv brew. it already taste...

i'm gonna be brewing a CDA, the ingredients include 2 row munich crystal 40 flaked oats de-bittered black malt d2 syrup here's the hop schedule, this is what i'm concerned with most, isn't the 2 oz. columbus a bit much? like rip enamel from your teeth excessive or what? yooper has...

just wanted to know how this yeast behaves, never used it before and am wondering if I need a blow off tube. the gravity of this beer should be around 1070ish.

this is my first IPA style, well its a cascadian dark ale. and I wanna know if this is too much etc. so i was thinking using 2 oz. of columbus for bittering, 2 oz. of citra for flavor, 1 oz. centennial for aroma then 1 oz citra dry hop. just looking for input and thoughts...

so I have a 11% belgian strong dark carbonating right now and I just have a question. I did a lot of reading and most of the people here who have made a beer similar to mine say that it takes a few months for the flavors to mellow out and balance. Some say that the beers taste green or are...

hey guys, I bottles my belgian strong dark tonight, just finished. 15 750 ml bottles and 19 11.2 bottles clocks in at 11%. Had it in primary a little bit over a month. Tasted really really good. Now, I just gotta plan for my next beer. Thanks everyone...

i'd rather not get the liquid yeast to save on some money, this is gonna be my first all grain recipe. Will the taste still be similar if I use the danstar nottingham yeast? thanks

can someone help me create a recipe for a double IPA. I'd like to use fresh frozen jackfruit in it. I want some jackfruit flavor to shine through, and some aroma, but I don't want it to compete with the hops. I want it to be fresh and clean tasting. A jackfruit is kind of like a tart banana...

hey guys, i'm going to try and make a beer with fruit, but I don't know what style I should make? I'm still pondering what fruits i'll use, but I want to use fruits that are native to philippines. Maybe calamansi and jackfruit. I want it to be a fresh tasting beer, something enjoyable for hot...

Are there instructions floating around here of lonnie's original brutus 10 brewing system? I was on his site and it said to go purchase a byo magazine back issue and I didn't see anything to order a back issue so I just subscribed for a year....

just took a gravity reading on my belgian quad. Its been 3.5 weeks and this is the first gravity reading I've done since I got it in the fermenter. its at 1.022 and the est. abv is 10.87% is it a good idea to use lalvin ec1118 champagne yeast when I go to bottle this?

can someone point me to a thread with like those brutus style setups. I was wondering if you have to build these yourself or if there is a company that sells them? thanks

big belgian quad..its been 3 weeks exactly today.. OG 1.105, still getting a bubble every 5 seconds from the blowoff tube. Is this normal? As long as i'm getting activity in the blowoff tube it's not done yet right?

do you guys know if the 31 mm caps fit on the belgian bottles 750 ml? Like the chimay, st. bernardus or any bottle with that style? thanks