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Extract brewer here. As I bring my boil kettle up to temperature, I steep my specialty grains in a separate pot. I then transfer the resulting grain "tea" over to the boil kettle. I started doing this to save time. Since my stove was very slow to get the water up to temp, doing this side-by-side...

Brewed a barleywine yesterday. First chance to try my new burner & larger kettle. Brewing went fine. Near the end of chilling, however, I discovered that my wort chiller had developed a slow leak where the hose connects with the chiller. Not enough to squirt water, but enough so that it...

TL;DNR - Can I gently pour (or siphon) already bottled and carbonated beer into a bottling bucket, let it go flat, add new uncarbonated beer to it, blend, prime, and bottle? Or do I risk major staling from the first batch of beer I'd be letting go flat? Full version: I have a spruce...

My instinct tells me I'm way off base on this, but my grasp on recipe science is tenuous at best. Have a recipe for a pale ale. It's a good, solid recipe; a Sierra Nevada clone, pretty much. For no reason at all I punched it into Beer Calculus at Hopville, switched it from 5 gallons to 3...

Just a general question out of curiosity. Entering my 10th batch with my current set of tubing. It looks fine, maybe a bit foggy on the inside. Thinking about replacing it, though. Only costs a few bucks, after all. So what kind of schedule do folks keep as far as rotating out the old and...

Obviously it's purely a matter of aesthetics, not brewing, but nonetheless I'm curious if folks have bottled a batch in corked bottles, and if so their experience, cost, equipment, etc. I'm about to brew a big Belgian dubbel intended to be a fairly long-term beer, and also a gift beer, and...

I brewed a colonial porter using a kit from my LHBS. The recipe called for a full bottle of this stuff at bottling. It honestly seemed like too much to me -- the stuff smells POTENT -- so I cut the recommended amount in half. Didn't matter. Just had my first taste of it three weeks after...

Brewed a porter last night using maple sap instead of water. Kind of figured it would have an aggressive ferment, especially since less than 10 hours later it already sounded like it was boiling inside. Told the Mrs. when I left for work this morning to watch out for the airlock filling with...

The lowdown: Doing a Hoegaarden clone. Bought the kit today and plan to brew tonight. Don't plan a starter. (I know, I know.) I noticed the shop accidentally gave me TWO vials of White labs WLP400 instead of one. I know it was an error because the second vial was in the box for the second kit...

So like anyone fairly fresh to homebrewing, I have a thousand ideas I want to try and neither the time, money, nor equipment to do them all any time soon. That's fine. There is a long life of brewing ahead of me. Still, I'm impatient. I'd love to dabble with batches of one gallon, two...

Best I can tell I'm slightly on the edge but still in the safe zone, but I'd like to hear from folks with a lot more experience than me. Bottled a summer weiss today. It spent 21 full days in primary. The FG was 1.020. I don't have an accurate OG reading. I noticed when I moved it to the...

I've got a summer weiss set for bottling this weekend. I'm strongly considering doing the exact same recipe again in the same fermenter. Did this brew two summers ago with some friends and it was a huge hit, so i'd like to have a good stash for when the warm weather rolls around. With this in...

As mentioned in this post and the one right after that, I had some concerns with getting a bleachy odor in my bottles after a C-brite bath left a white residue on them. I almost rinsed on bottling day, but was always told not to rinse with tap water (yes, I could have boiled it, but didn't) and...