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Does anyone have any empirical information on how much is too much? I ask because I have a wine barrel (59 gal) in its 4th year of solera with lambic style beer. We tasted this in June/July and it had a strong solvent flavor. We tried it again in Jan and the solvent was pretty much all gone...

My last brew was a Belgian IPA, very similar to Flying Dog Raging ***** or Stone Cali-belgique. It stayed the fermentor for 3 weeks, had a full day of carbonation and then was kegged. At the unveiling it was hoppy goodness. Full of hop flavor with balanced bitterness and decent aroma. Much of...

I'm looking for a good air tight storage solution for my grain. What do people use to store there grain and still make it convenient to move and dispense? A friend uses 5 gallon buckets, but these only hold around 20 lbs of 2-row. It would be nice to have something that at least hold 27.5...

I made a 1.5 liter starter using WLP653 (Brett Lambicus) about 60 hours ago and I'm not seeing any activity at all. I did the starter like all other 40+ starters I have done before, but this time I'm not seeing any progress. The starter has been kept at 70-75 and I even added a little yeast...

I was hoping to get some suggestions about making a brew fermented with 100% brett. I have read all of the books on lambic and sour beer, even made a lambic, but have not made an all brett beer yet. From what I have read brett likes a ph of 3.5-4, so its good to add acidulated malt to drop...

I was just wondering if anyone had built something like this before? I've been wanting to built a continuous hopper to slowly drop out hop pellets into the boil, but not sure what kind of motor or hardware would accomplish this. Any ideas? The goal would be to approximate what dogfish does...

I need some help from someone who has done a turbid mash for a lambic before... I've been reading over the turbid mash procedures in the July/Aug '08 issue of BYO, as well as the Wild Brews book. The problem I'm having is that in both cases the infusion amounts, target temperature, and water...

I was filtering/kegging my marzen today and it occurred to me that maybe it would be a good idea to filter my lagers prior to the laagering stage. Just wondering what people thought of this, good/bad idea? It seems to make sense regardless of whether you dump trube from a conical or transfer...

I'm going to do my second lager on Saturday and I was wondering what temperature to use for the starter? Typically with an ale started I would use the range used for the beer (e.g. 68-75), but does it make sense to do the same for a lager? Should I keep the temp of the lager down around...

So I brewed a Saison on the 4th and I ended up being a little more efficient with my extract than expected (1.082 sg versus 1.074 sg). Thus, the amount of yeast I pitched was probably a little low even though I used a 2 vial 3 liter started on a stir plate. I pitched the yeast when the beer...

I am trying to find out there is a simple way to measure the levels of fermentable sugar in my wort. No I'm not talking about using a hydrometer or refractometer to measure the total sugar, I'm only interested in the fermentable sugar (e.g. maltose, sucrose, fructose, glucose, galactose ...)...

I'm debating the purchase of my second fermetor and would appreciate some input from the many experts on the forum. I currently brew 10 gallon batches and use one conical fementer. I would like to buy another but I am unsure what size to get. I know someday (maybe soon) I will move to 20...

I was just wondering what peoples experiences have been with refractometers. Worth the price? I recently purchased a refractometer (from northern brewer) so that I can take more readings and use less beer, but I have found that it contradicts my hydrometer. My current beer reads 1.030 on the...