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Made a Chocolate Baltic Oatmeal Porter w/figs tonight. While taking out the hop bag after the boil i saw the image below. I've never seen it look quite this way before. Had to laugh. Now i'm thinking of naming this beer 'Hung Viking' What are your thoughts...

For what reasons i had i strained my wort through a 200 micron sieve on brew day. It's the sieve i use from my honey extraction. OG was 1.080. Going into the secondary SG was 1.024. I just bottled it and the FG was 1.022. i've never seen a clearer beer! ('Monk's Blood' clone btw). There...

I'm building a smoker for all sorts of things. (trash can) I want to home smoke the grains for my rauch's too. What are you people using for a grate? Will a cookie sheet work? Around what temp should i smoke at? Thanks.

Can i clean the fermenter with bleach before putting it away. Just secondaried my 6th batch. Won't be using the fermenter (6.5 gal plastic brew bucket) for at least 2 months. i always soap clean then starsan all equip between batches. Would like to super clean after the 6 brews. Thanks...

I can't believe i did this! I work in research for God's sake! CHECK THE CALIBRATION ON EVERY THERMOMETER YOU USE! I don't like the stem thermometers so i got a dial version. Why i never checked it against the mercury one i can't explain. I found out it was 8 degrees off (low) during a...

So should i replace all my tubing after every few brews or is there a way to clean these things?

What is the lowest temp the top-off water an be? I had real trouble keeping my fermenter below 72 degrees this summer. If i can chill the top-off water then maybe the heat from the initial fermentation will stay below the 72 degree mark. I did use a fan & water bath (guess I'll add ice to...

Has anyone ever tossed a few oz. of roasted rye into a batch of beer before?? What were the results? *•I'm brewing up an oatmeal porter with dry malt extract. I have rye as well and wonder if i can add it too Thank you kindly.

I'm about to brew a 5 gallon batch of BB Scottish Ale. I also just extracted a bunch of honey from my bees. Could i simply add 8 or so ounces of honey to the batch? At what stage should i add it to the wort? Thanks.

Got mixed up a little. I took the FG from the bottling bucket after mixing with the priming syrup. Oops! Any ideas on how to figure it out. Oktoberfest LME kit Brew Date - 2/7/2011 OG = 1.056 @ 61°F WK1 SG = 1.016 @ 68°F Into Secondary 2/16/11 Today FG = 1.020 (includes priming...

Now drinking the first batch i bottled. Not great, Maybe not good, but OK. Fine. Most of it has that slight band-aid after taste. My Question is this. 'How come every couple of bottles I get one that has no off flavors?' In fact it's real good stuff. I don't understand how...

They are... 1). - Homebrew taste GREAT when drank at 60°F to 70°F! 2). - Homebrew taste GREAT when still unconditioned & green! Also, I just secondaried an Oktoberfest that I could easily start drinking RIGHT NOW! Fortunately I can wait long enough for it to get even better.

Can i over steep the grains? Instead of steeping for 20 minutes can i just let it go for 40 minutes?

I didnt have the ice cubes sitting out. Had to run and get a handful. Batch boiled over only a little bit. Like maybe two cups worth of foam on the stove top. Will that affect the batch? The target OG is 1.052 - 1.056 and my batch came in at 1.056. It's an Oktoberfest kit.

I just bottled my first batch of beer. I have a primary with all the yeast in it. Is there something i can do with it, other than throw it away?

So rousing the yeast, in a fermentor, with the slightest twist of the bucket WILL NOT harm the brew? Or cause an off flavor?

A Scottish Ale extract kit. Recipie states: ABV%: 3.25% - 3.5% OG: 1.034 - 1.038 FG: 1.010 - 1.014 Bottle after a week Current status: OG = 1.036 In fermentor 2 weeks @ 68f SG = 1.022 Question - has this batch stalled?

How many of you return the beer sample back the fermentor after you check gravity?

I was given a Brewer's best German Oktoberfest LME kit as a gift. It's a lager but i don't have a fridge or temperature controlled area to make it in. It's from out of state so i cant return it either. Is there something i can do with it to make some sort of an Ale instead? Thanks

Background: First batch, 5 gallon Scottish ale LME kit, went in plastic fermentor last Saturday (1/1/11) with a OG of 1.036 and a little unstrained trub. Situation: Two award winning mentors differ in recommendations. -One says direct bottle in two weeks. -Other says use secondary...