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Hi Everyone, I'm a long time beer maker, but novice when it comes to cider making (1 batch). I just had the Crispin Brown's Lane and (despite the fact that it's a Miller/Coors product) really enjoyed it, and was hoping I could make something similiar on my own. My question is, obviously I...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had any info or experience on bulk aging brett beers vs aging them in their bottles. For the most part I tend to leave a brett beer in the secondary for at least 3 months before bottling them up, but I've also heard of folks bottling after two weeks and then...

Hi All, I'm not new to making sour/tart/wild beers. I've got 3 going right now (sour rye stout, funky dark saison, american kriek), but traditionally I've used either 1 isolated strain like brett bruxellensis, brett lambicus, etc... or I've used a already mixed pitch like ECY-20, Roeselare...

Hi All, I'm trying to make a beer along the lines of Kuhnhenn's Raspberry Eisbock, which, for those of you that have never had/ heard of it, is a 15.5% eisbock with this wonderfully jammy, fairly sweet flavor. I can do the eisbock part of this, but I just don't have enough experience fruiting...

Hi All, Lately I've been thinking about reworking my end of boil/ cooling process and was hoping to get some opinions on the different options I'm considering (I'm sure there are plenty of you all out there that use one of the two methods I'm thinking of). The two options I'm considering are...

Hey All, I have a question about water treatment and through all my searches I couldn't really find what I was looking for. I'm getting ready to brew a pale ale (a fairly hoppy one along the lines of a Hillfarmstead Edward or a 3 Floyds Zombie Dust) and traditionally I use the Bru'N Water...

Hey Everyone, I know Beersmith does a calculation on how many IBUs are calculated from first wort hopping, and I also know that the general agreement is that the bittering from first wort hops is perceived less than you'd expect from the calculated IBU's. My question is does anyone have any...

Hey All, Quick question. I have been putting together a chest freezer keggerator (so I'm still a n00b at it) and it's time to go from 1 tap to 4, so I am going to get a Co2 distributor, one of those 4 or 6 way models with the valves. My question is more related to pushing beer than...

I know I know.... I should have more than 1 stir bar... But I don't... And to make things worse I started looking for it while I was making my starter... So I successfully avoided any boil overs while looking for the bar, but my question is, Im going away for the weekend, brewing Monday...

Ok, so i was making a yeast starter tonight... Boiled it, cooled it, then when I was pitching the yeast (wlp090)... I accidentally dropped the whole White Labs vial (the physical vial) into the flask... So my question is what are the odds i contaminated the whole thing and what should I...

I'm sorry if you all find this as a repeated question, but in all my searching i couldn't find a good answer. About 6 months ago I made a barleywine, started out about 1.200 ended up about 1.039 (I know a bit high... but i went with it...). Anyways, I tried some over the weekend, it tasted...

Random question: Basically, the only thing holding me back from going all grain is my kettle, I only have a 5 gal kettle, so I can't really do a full boil (unless I'm making smaller than 5 gal batches). I have a 10 gal cooler mash/ lauter tun I got before I was going all grain because it was...

Hi All, First time poster, long time reader...lol I was reading last month's issue of BYO and was thinking of brewing the "Dark Winter Saison clone" recipe... My question has to do with pitching rates and a yeast starter. The relevent stats on the beer are an OG of 1.066, its a 5 gal...