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I'm trying to make sense of a series of problems I've been having in a series of recent beers that haven't been a big issue previously. I am now attributing them to stressed yeast. I should say that I have been transitioning from brew-in-a-bag, which I have been doing for several years, to...

I recently came into the possession of 7 unopened bottles of 1962 Masterpiece Canadian Whiskey by Lord Calvert Distilleries. Each is in its mint condition original lined case and has an enclosed certificate (photo will follow). I am interested in whether anyone knows its value and where or...

I did an experiment with my Russian Imperial Stout which resembles Old Rasputin. Reasonably malty, bitter and intense with coffee chocolate overtones at about 9% ABV. My last batch I split and added unsweetened powdered chocolate (made into a syrup and added pre fermentation) and brewed...

Yesterday I did my first traditional mash after several years of BIAB brewing. After brewing several hundred gallons using BIAB in a keggle, I got a great deal on a Blichmann Top Tier with three burners and three 26 gallon kettles with thermowells sight tubes and spigots. I brewed with a...

I am considering submitting a couple of brews to a competition for the first time. Neither beer is brewed to style and I'm not sure where they belong because I don't know how much flexibility there is in the style guidelines. Alternatively, since they are not brewed to style should I just not...

I'm a bit surprised by the behavior of the fermentation of a hopped Belgian Golden Strong Ale with WLP550. I am looking to keep the phenolic fruity character in check so I have it fermenting at a constant 68F. OG was 1.073. Fermentation was vigorous for four days with significant blowoff...

Hi all, I just looked at the shipping notice for my stuff from Kegconnection.com and was compelled to post. I know there is nothing particularly new about converting a 4.9 cf Sanyo mini fridge to a two corny keg kegerator but I just couldn't contain myself. Picked up a fridge in...

OK, newbie kegging questions. I'm trying to get set up for legging. I just picked up a 5 lb CO2 tank with a Draught Tech Dual Gauge regulator along with a Perlick tap and shank, tubing and a couple Sanke D couplers on Craigslist. First the most important question. The tank has enough gas...

I am posting this with the risk of starting a flame war. I am completing a two week trip to England, not a beer tourism trip but I crammed some beer tasting in where I could. I realize that I should have posted before the start of my trip asking for suggestions and guidance but instead I am...

I thought some of you might be interested in this historical tidbit. I visited Christopher Lloyd's garden at great Dixter in Kent today and onsite was an Oast House. There is also one at Sissinghurst but it is not possible to see the interior. This a the building used for drying hops. They...

Hi all, I'm chilling the wort for my first lager/pilsner. It is an Augustiner Lagerbier Helles. I have a fridge at 51F waiting for it but I am just using a immersion chiller with 70F water. I'm wondering whether I need to drop the temp before pitching or whether I can just pitch and then...

Some of you might be interested in this FAQ I ran across on the American Society of Microbiology that is for non-scientists on the Microbiology of Beer. If the yeast ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. http://academy.asm.org/images/stories/documents/ColloquiaDoc/faq_beer.pdf

I have been using a sparging setup for my last several BIAB brews. When I brew 10 gallon batches, I can't fit all the grain and water so I do a sparge with the extra water at the end of the mash. I came across a bunch of 3-5 gallon food grade buckets from laboratory supplies (microbiological...

Freezing Starter-Sized Samples of Yeast for Long-Term Storage Written by Brewitt with contributions from HBT members WHAT: The purpose of this article is to summarize what has been learned about freezing yeast by a number of contributors to the thread "Do you know how to make a yeast starter...

Freezing Starter-Sized Samples of Yeast for Long-Term Storage Written by Brewitt with contributions from HBT members WHAT: The purpose of this article is to summarize what has been learned about freezing yeast by a number of contributors to the thread "Do you know how to make a yeast starter...

I just made a windshield for my KAB6 Bayou Burner out of two duct adapters from Home Depot (see pictures below). The purpose is to both protect from the wind (the existing windshield is far to short) and to direct the heat to the bottom of the keggle rather than around the edges. I think that...

I guess I wrote this post on my iPhone using dictation. Dumb idea with all the specialized words. Lets try this again. I am going to attempt my first sour this weekend along with my first Belgian Dark Strong Ale. My thinking is to siphon off a gallon of the ~1.1 OG wort and dilute that about...

Patience Grasshopper, Patience. I tasted my recent Russian Imperial Stout, a 9.8% ABV 90 IBU Old Rasputin clone, after 10 days, 3 weeks and 4 weeks and there was no carbonation, perhaps a slight fizz on the tongue. So I decided to grow up some of the yeast I had stocked and innoculate it at...

Anyone have a recipe for a Straffe Hendrik Quad from Brouwerij de Halve Maan in Bruges? Unfortunately (or fortunately) it was the only quad I tasted while in Belgium and I loved it. I know Westleveren 12 is supposed to be the pinnacle of this style but I haven't tasted it. Sounds similar from...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=L6dzUOYTQtQ&src_vid=oax3cUFsBSw&annotation_id=annotation_566311 Enjoy! This is the updated 2012 version that has some corrections of technical errors.