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A coworker that doesn't brew gave me about a gallon-sized freezer bag full of cascade cones he picked last week. I've kept in the refrigerator for the past week or so. Can someone give me a quick process for drying these? Do I just want to dry the cones or do I need to separate out each...

About two weeks ago I put a fermentation chamber together, with a large 20 cu. ft. chest freezer and a Johnson temperature controller. I typically brew once every two weeks and let my beers sit on the yeast for about a month. I brewed an imperial stout about a week and a half ago using a...

I've got a Belgian quad that I'm planning to bottle tonight and I'd like to try my hand at yeast washing. Couple of questions: 1) I used a high gravity Wyeast 3787 and made a half gallon starter. Fermentation was crazy and the final ABV is going to be around 10%. Am I going to have any...

I brewed a Belgian tripel about four months ago and pitched a rather large starter of healthy yeast - I think it was a White Labs 530, but I don't have the details handy. Fermentation raged like it always does with that particular strain and I didn't think anything about it - I don't have a...

I brewed a blonde ale two days before a week long business trip, racked it to a 6 gallon Better Bottle, and fitted with an air stopper. The final volume ended up being about 3.5 gallons, so I had a ton of headspace and didn't think I would need a blowoff tube. I pitched a starter and...

So, I have one of these new Polarware 10g pots on my stove right now with 4 gallons of water heating up. I have one of those electric stoves with a flat top on it. Since the bottom of the pot is so thin, i'm hearing lots of noise from it - temperature gauge reads about 180 F. I went to sort...

About nine days ago, I started harvesting the yeast from a St. Bernardus Abt 12 bottle. I've been very scrupulous about my sanitizing and I've fed it a low gravity wort made with some light DME. It's on its third feeding now, and I've gotten a decent looking layer of brown stuff at the bottom...

I downloaded a copy of Beersmith today and started working on my first recipe for a Belgian blonde - I'd appreciate any insight or advice. 9.5 lbs Pilsner LME (3.5 SRM) 8.0 oz Munich malt (9.0 SRM) 2.0 lbs Belgian wheat malt (2.0 SRM) Since I'm using Pilsner extract, I was planning to boil for...

I really hate having to do partial boils. I'm moving outside.

I'm steeping my grains right now and just realized I hadn't calculated how much LME I needed. The all-grain recipe I'm converting calls for 14.5 lbs of Pale 2 Row malt, assuming 75% efficiency. Can someone please help me out and do the calculation to tell me how much light LME I need to...

I've been using a 4 gallon stainless steel stockpot for brewing and am seriously considering an upgrade in my brewing equipment. Even with 2.0 to 2.5 gallon boils, I have had issues with boilovers and I'm really tired of it. Ultimately, I would like the flexibility to be able to do full 10...

I've got an imperial IPA in the primary fermenter that I hopped during the boil with loose hops. When I transferred from the boil kettle to the carboy a lot of the hop leaves wound up in the primary - it clogged my auto-siphon, so I wound up needing to use the funnel instead. I want to...

I'm brewing an imperial IPA tonight using a White Labs WLP001 (California yeast). OG: 1.078 Vol. 4.75 gal According to Mr Malty, with these stats and intermittent shaking (maybe every 8 hours), I needed to make a 2L starter using one vial of yeast. I shook my yeast vial, sanitized it...

I've brewed seven batches of beer since I started homebrewing. My second batch was infected because I didn't know how to dismantle my auto-siphon and the brew turned out really bad - legit infection. I was looking through the forums earlier tonight and saw how many people were worried about...

I've got a Belgian strong ale in the primary right now, and fermentation has been going strong for about three days now. Now that the vigorous part of the fermentation is more or less over, I have some dark Belgian candy that I want to add. I intend to boil it in a small amount of water, let...

So, I've brewed three batches so far - all extract. The first was an IPA which sat in the primary for three weeks and has been bottled 2-3 weeks at this point. It tastes alright, but I'm figuring the flavor will develop as it spends more time in the bottles. The second batch was a Scottish...

I made an imperial stout this weekend based on this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/imperial-bastard-stout-126650/ Couple deviations. The original recipe didn't call for a yeast starter, but I made one anyway. Same yeast strain. Also, I used 1.5 lbs of dark brown sugar instead...

Hi everyone. I'm starting my first batch of ale tomorrow afternoon and I'm pretty sure that I have all the steps planned out, but I have a couple of questions that I wanted to get a sanity check and make sure I wasn't doing anything crazy. I have a 6.5 gallon primary that I'm going to use...