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Hello all, I am in the process of working on a milk stout/or other type beer to help with milk production for breastfeeding wife. I haven't made anything in about a year an a half so this will be my first dive back in. I was looking at Duck Rabbit, Left Hand, and southern tier for...

Ok so this year I decided to try my hand at cider, I went to my local orchard and got 4 gallons of unpasteurized cider. I'm going to hear it up to 185 for 45 min to kill off any wild yeast or anything else that might be there'. I wanted to hit around 9% abv. This is where I could use some help...

I am brewing a chocolate porter. I know a lot of people have strong opinions on using powder or nibs to get the chocolaty taste. i have decided to go with nibs but now I am trying to determine how much to use. I plan on blanching the nibs and then adding them to the secondary for 7 days, but I...

I am brewing a chocolate porter. I know a lot of people have strong opinions on using powder or nibs to get the chocolaty taste. i have decided to go with nibs but now I am trying to determine how much to use. I plan on blanching the nibs and then adding them to the secondary for 7 days, but I...

I think I may have originally posted this in the wrong forum. I'm currently working on my 1st attempt at a chocolate porter. I was just at a beer fest here in Michigan and had a few I really liked. So I figured I would give it a shot. Here is where I am at. And help or guidance would be much...

My wife asked me to make a chocolate porter, I've done a little research and looked at a few recipes. But wanted to tweak them a bit and come up with my own. This is the first porter I have ever made but I figure I would give it a try. Here is what I have come up with so far. Any help or...

Ok so i came up with a nice IPA recipe last year (see below). my mash ran a little hot around 158ish (electric stoves suck for dialing in a specific temp).My og was 1.042 my desired og was 1.056. In the end i added some DME and Candi Syrup equaling 1#to up the gravity. I didnt want to add to...

I brewed a Franziskaner clone yesterday and my gravity was much lower then expected. Around 1.034 I was shooting for around 1.050 ish. I figured it was probably a problem with my spargeing. I know i messed it up, But I was wondering if it would be worth it to boil up some light dme and add it to...

This sat on the trub about 6 weeks, longer then i would have liked but was unable to transfer it. was going to just keg it but it had a little strange oder to it. so i put it in secondary. any thought if its a infection, mold, yeast colonies? its only been in the secondary for about 4 days, but...

I was made a holiday spice beer and a pumpkin beer, both all-grain (brew day Sept 22) everything went as normal washed and sanitized everything, mashed brewed and put in the primary. i wanted to put the beer into secondary on the 20th of Oct, but was unable to due to being sick. i did not want...

I recently made a winter spice beer and a pumpkin beer. I was unable to move them to secondary after two weeks, and I was sick so I did not want to touch it. The beer sat in the primary for 5weeks. Went to keg it this afternoon, when I popped the top of the buckets they had a kind of vinyl...

I made my first pumpkin beer (based on the Samhain pumpkin ale recipe). I was sick and didn't want to mess with it while I was all Germey. So I didn't put it in primary after two weeks. It ended up sitting in primary for 5 weeks. When I popped the top to keg it, it had a strong smell sort of...

I was wondering can you portion out and split a tube of white labs yeast? basically planning on making 3 1-gal batches that use the same yeast. any help would be great thanks.

My fiance wanted to get into making mead so I picked her up the basics, turns out she wants to try a few small batches. I was wondering if I had a tube of WLP720 Sweet Mead/Wine Yeast could I portion it out to make 3 1-gal batches? I was also going to put in some yeast nutrient and energizer as...

So I brewed my first IPA but the OG was lower then expected. It was at 1.042 I expected it to be around 1.065. Should I add some DME or Candi Syrup to give it a boost or should I just let it do its thing? I'm afraid it will jyst be a hoppy pale ale rather then a ipa. any thoughts. 5 gal...

Im looking to try to make a IPA similar to north peaks Diabolical IPA. Here is the description for Diabolical. or even somewhere in the ball park. "The devil made us do it. From the ABV and IBU figures to the fiendish use of Cascade, Perle and Willamette hops, Lucifer was whispering in our...

ok so here is the situation. I was planning on brewing a Belgian triple, but the place I went to did not have the trappest yeast I needed, the did have a Belgian wit so I am doing a culture. I started the culture yesterday in the early afternoon. I know the culture needs 2-3 days before its...

I have a stout I am going to bottle tomorrow. Its og was 1.065 I did a reading today and its gravity is 1.024. temp was around 65 F Im trying to figure out the correct amount of corn sugar to use for bottling. Its slightly more then 5 gal but not much. I was thinking somewhere around 4 to 5oz...

I think my beer might have stalled. I pitched the yeast it bubbled for a few days then stopped knowing just because the airlock is not bubbling does not mean its done, I left it in the primary for two weeks. I transfer it to secondary there was A LOT of turb at the bottom. gravity was 1030 from...

I have a Stout that just started secondary over the weekend, I added Maple syrup and vanilla beans to the brew. Im wondering since the syrup will (should) start the fermentation again. do I or should I add yeast when bottling? or should there be enough to carbonate the beer. If so how much...