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Awesome, thanks for the advice all.

Hi everyone. First off, I know other people have posted similar questions..I promise I went through them, but I wasn't confident with how to adjust for my situation, so I needed to start a new thread to ask. My apologies. I brewed a 5 gallon batch...ended with pretty much exactly 5 gallons. I...

Awesome, thanks so much, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Hello all, I'm having a little problem with my CO2 regulator, and seeing as you fine people have been a tremendous help in the past, I thought someone here might be able to help. I have a basic regulator. Dual gauge, but the one that reads pressure in the tank is broken (the needle fell...

I figured there would be some off tastes, I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't get infected or anything unhealthy. I've "lagered" like this before and everything seemed okay. I'll do a diacetyl rest and take my chances with everything else I suppose. Thanks for the help guys

So I know that lagering should be done in the 30's or so, but my basement isn't quite cold enough, but I did a lager (Marzen) anyway. Turns out its sitting in the mid-60's (I thought it was in the 50s). Is this bad? Will anything to bad happen to a lager if it sits too warm for 2 months...

I just brewed my Ocktoberfest last Monday (August 1). I'm racking to the secondary today (August 11) and "lagering" until the end of September (I don't have a cold place to put beer to lager, so I put it in my cool-ish basement. Not lagering temps, but the beers come out fine). At the end of...

I know this thread has been inactive for a little now, but I did this recipe so I thought I'd comment. I brewed a few weeks ago, bottled two weeks ago, and had my first taste today, and it was almost spot on! Mine was a little too lemony, but that's because I only eyeballed how much lemon zest I...

Hi guys, Sorry for the late response. I'll post the recipe up later today. I'm at work now. I meant to take my notebook with me, but completely forgot.

I agree with Beernip and YankeeHill..I used less than I wanted, but that was just me. Better to start small, taste as it ages, and add more if needed.

Also, another good tip I've read is to boil a pot of water (a cup?) and put the wood in that. The hot water will rip the tannins of quickly and make a tea...then add the water and the wood to the secondary and let it sit on it for a few weeks.

My answer: genius. If you do it right. My advice (from experience) is to use less cedar for longer time. If you use more, you pick up more of the sweetness than the cedar-taste. Use a little and let it sit for a while, an ounce or two for a month or so. As most will suggest, sample the beer...

Hello everyone, A few months back I made a post asking for recommendations on how to age my beer on cedar. A bunch of people commented, and wanted to know how it turned out. The goal was to make a nice woodsy, smokey, cedar beer. I made a basic munich dunkel, but subbed out some of the crystal...

Our hops are all in their first year. For the first 3-4 weeks we watered with a few cups of water a day, helping them settle into the soil and establish themselves. The past 1-2 weeks we have significantly slowed down with water, to a few cups every few days, hoping to encourage root growth...

ForeRunnerBrewery, I'm having similar problems. I have planted about 5 feet apart Cascade, Centenial, Fuggle, Kent Goldings and Willamette. My Fuggle is doing rather well, about 5 feet in a month; the others were around a foot and seemed to have stopped. I have one of each in my front yard as...

Our brewery is named in honor of our old dog, Brandi. She was a black lab, and pretty much the best dog ever. We started brewing about 2-3 months before we had to put her to sleep, and we didn't think of coming up with an actual name for our brewery until right around then. So, we decided to...