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I bottled a cider fermented with White Labs Dry English Cider yeast, Simply Apple and some blue berry juice three weeks ago. It had a strange grain sort of taste. I figured it was probably something weird with the blue berry juice and I'd just let it age and see what happens. In to the cold...

I went into a lhbs in a different town today. I walked in with a recipe all planed out. What I left was defiantly not what was on my list. Between substitutions, a small but free bag of dark malt, and other flights of fancy I'm still not exactly sure what I'm brewing, and I don't care. I don't...

Had a bad experience with some lavender in a beer once. Anyone got any experience with rose buds? Thinking use it in a fashion similar to dry hoping. If no one has any input will probably add rose water to taste at bottling. Thanks in Advance.

First I'd like to say if this thread is in the wrong section I apologize and thank any moderator that does me the favor of moving it. Went to cold crash a Belgian specialty beer tonight (wlp500) and found this floating on top. I've seen it on a two saisons I have made and assumed it was just...

3 1/2 gallons Tree Top 3 Apple Blend 1/2 gallon R.W. Knudsen Just Black Cherry Juice WLP060 It's young now but already delightful. Fruity and slightly sweet. It tastes enough like a jolly rancher to appeal to your sweet tooth; Not so sweet you feel like a girl drink drunk. I'm...

Old army buddies of mine are getting back from deployment in a few months and I want to welcome them home with some home brewed beer. I want to make a solid beer that they will all like weather they love craft beer or typical American lagers. I would just try and throw a recipe together but...

Bottled some cider today I fermented with wlp060 and have saved some yeast cake to use in a pumpkin ale in a few days. Then I started wondering if the yeast might change after fermenting in juice. Did a search and came up empty handed. anyone have any experience or input?

Checked out my saison today after being gone for two weeks to find this floating on top. Specific gravity was at 1.005. Yeast is wlp565. What is this?

So I cracked my bucket to look at some cider that had been fermenting for a little over 3 weeks. There was still krausen rafts floating which didn't seem strange till I took the gravity which was at 1.008. Should the krausen have fallen by now? Is that maybe not krausen but pulp and my noobness...

I brewed a black lager (except I used wlp001) and it's my first bad brew. I fermented it at 55F for week then gradually raised the temp to 75F to finish. It's been in the bottle 5 weeks and it still tastes like what I can best describe as soybeans. I had trouble cooling it down took me almost 2...

Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.25 Boil Time: 60 min Est Original Gravity: 1.047 Est Final Gravity: 1.012 Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.6 % Bitterness: 32.9 IBUs Est Color: 8.4 SRM 8 lbs Golden Promise 1 lbs Wheat, Flaked 8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt 0.50 oz Chinook - Boil 60.0 min...

How would you hop a smoked pale ale?

There have been many posts on fermenting WLP001 around 60 and lot of scattered information and opinions on what temperatures to ferment at and weather or not to raise the temperature to help clear up beers during fermentation and when. I've got a beer in the fermentation chamber now with an...

It was going to be a schwarzbier but I really didn't want to tie up my fermentation chamber for 2 months because I'd run out of beer so I am pitching WLP001 and going to ferment it nice and low around 57. But I'm at a loss on what this type of beer would be referred to as. I'm pretty sure there...

What do I call it?

Going to brew ahs's half Belgian wit because it's getting hot and I'd like something easy to drink. Wanted to give it a nice honey flavor so I was going to add some honey malt (about 8 oz). I was also thinking about adding some honey at flame to dry it out and balance the residual sweetness...

Hello! So I have been toying with writing recipes vs. buying kits but I'm still not sure if myself. I wanted to make a simple black lager (will be my first Lager!) with a relatively low ABV. All Input welcome!!! Thanks in Advance!!! Partial Mash 5 gallon Batch ABV 4.3 IBUs 25.9 2...

So I just threw in my grains and was all happy for being productive. Then I realized that I didn't make a starter with the washed yeast (about a month old WLP001 2nd gen) I was going to use! Did a couple of searches some people don't even use starters with washed yeast, some always do. So down...

There is a small church run thrift store I check out sometimes seeing as I am broke student and slightly obsessed with finding a good deal. Often I find Sweet Steins or Mugs from Germany because this is an army town with German immigrants and guys that brought them back as souvenirs since WW2...

I'd like to try to make a light mead (hydromel?) and bottle and carbonate it but I have a few questions I can't find very clear answers for. 1) how long will a lets say 4% abv mead take to ferment? 2) Are low abv meads good spiced or flavored like regular mead? 3) Dose anyone have a...