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I have five gallons of mead that went from 1090 to 995. The mead tastes good but way too dry, so I want to backsweeten it. 1. How much potassium sorbate should I add? 2. I couldn't find sulfite, but my LHBS has potassium meta bisulfite - is that the same as sulfite? 3. How much honey...

Really, thank you KCwarthog for the sticky at the top of the forum, and then thank you Steve Piatz for helping me make my first mead.That handout is great. I bought all my ingredients, mixed them up and fermented. My OG was 1090 and after six days it is down to 1015 and the sample is...

I want to follow the instructions on the sticky at the top of the forum. The nutrient additions are GoFerm (a yeast hydration nutrient) DAP and Fermaid K (yeast nutrient). I have a package of yeast energizer from Brewcraft and I would like to use it if appropriate. If I run out of Fermaid K...

I want to try to make this beer and I found a recipe that is supposed to be from the brewer - it calls for Wyeast #1968 and Wyeast #1728. It says to make a 600ml starter with 1728 but not with 1968. The estimated pre-boil gravity is 1094 and, after a 3 hour boil, the OG is estimated 1134...

I have a sticker that says - I brew the beer I drink. I'm thinking about putting on my car. Do you think this will help get me pulled over? Or do you think it doesn't really matter? I don't want to draw the wrong kind of attention to myself. Do you have a homebrewing bumper sticker on your car?

I just bought a used plate chiller. It didn't come with directions. I ran cold water through it to test it out, and now I can't figure out how to empty it completely. No matter what I do I can still hear water sloshing around in there. I have an air compressor and I have even tried blasting...

I'm going to brew an amber that uses Maris Otter as a base malt. I plan to do a protein rest at 130-133 for 15 minutes in an attempt to add some body to my beer. Recently, my beers have lacked fullness and body and I'm going to try the protein rest to add an extra dimension to my finished...

For my last two brews I racked from the primary to the keg after 8 days (while the yeast were still working their buts off), sealed the kegs nice and tight, and let the yeast carb my beer at room temp for two more weeks. No added expense of 3/4 cups of corn sugar or no need to waste CO2...

About six months ago I started saving a couple of beers from each of my batches. Since I keg, I filled up my bottles with BM's technique (we need no stinkin' beer gun). This method of filling bottles works great when the beer will be consumed within a week or so, but after six months, the...

I know that Carafa Special I, II and III have had their husks removed. I'd like to know if other homebrewers sub Carafa II for chocolate malt or carafa III for black patent. I think the lovibond ratings for Carafa II and chocolate malt are similar and black patent is a bit darker than Carafa...

I made the Lake Walk Pale Ale recently and it turned out great. The recipe called for two pounds of toasted pale malt. When I toasted my grains I spread them out on a cookie sheet in a single layer and left them in the oven for 15 minutes. While they toasted I could hear them popping like...

First wort is the wort collected before the sparge. First runnings are the first few quarts collected after opening the valve to drain the mash. Do I have this correct? I was on Kaiser's website and I am trying to get a handle on my conversion efficiency.

For the last year I have been brewing with dry yeast almost exclusively - using Safale 05 and Nottingham the most. My finished beer tasted good (some were better than others). But my last two brews I used liquid yeast and noticed a big difference in the taste of my finished beer. In particular...

Made beer about a month ago. When I racked from the fermenter I left a layer of beer on top of the yeast cake b/c I had intended to make another batch rather soon after and reuse the yeast. I got busy and I only have time to make beer now...four weeks later. At this point I am not sure about...

I don’t have beersmith so I have been doing my efficiency calculations by hand using Palmer’s book ‘How to Brew’ as a guide. Recently, when I asked a brewing buddy to put a recipe into beersmith I discovered that my hand calculations don’t match beersmith’s numbers. I’m sure I am doing...

I have a son of fermentation chiller and I want to upgrade so I bought a used Kenmore mini fridge to use as a fermentation chamber. The warmest setting is 50 degrees - too warm to ferment ales. I can buy a Loves controller but it will end up costing $70 ($20 to ship to HI) and I want to try to...

I'm planning to brew a scottish ale next - the 'Traiq Air Owl Wee Heavy' or 'If It's Not Scottish It's Crap' look like good recipes to follow. My question is - will .25 to .5 lbs of malto dextrine make a nice addition to a scottish ale? Matt

Goes to show the kind of players they have down there in Dallas - cheap shot specialists. Roy Williams' tackle on McNabb was just like the 2004 'tackle' that broke TO's leg when he was an Eagle. Since Williams wont be playing this week maybe he'll get his rocks off by making a horse collar...

I have posted in HBT 12 times. 5 posts have had 1 or fewer replies with one garnering exactly zero - three more have only gotten three responses. I'm thinking it may be impossible to be more boring than me. I raise a glass to my overall boringness and drink heartily. Cheers.

I just used BM's cheap counterpressure method and filled a few bottles from the keg (used the racking cane). It worked great. I want to put a sixer away and I have little room to keep the beer cold so what will happen if I fill some bottles from my keg which is in a kegerator (currently at...