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Hello fellow brewers! I'm not sure this topic should go into the beginners forum, but I'm only starting to play with water treatment and need a bit of help. So I'm planning to brew a Sweet Stout tonight and I'm trying to calculate my salts and acid additions. Here's the calculation from...

Hi, folks I've made a quick (not a thorough one :) ) search on the forums and didn't find an answer to my specific honey question. Now then. HOW exactly do you add honey to a fermenting beer? I've figured that if I simply pour it into the fermenter - it will just sit there on the bottom, w/o...

Hello, I'm not quite new to the topic of brewing, but this has bugged me since I have started. I'm boiling my beers on a induction stove-top in my 28 L pot. But I have never been able to get the beer to start rolling boil. I get to ~95C and that's it. I think that my stove-top isn't just...

Hello, I've had some washed yeast in my fridge for around half a year. Two different strains. Thou I'm not 100% sure, but I remember that one should be Nottingham. The other is a mystery to my memory. The "Notti" bottle, when opened, had a lot of carbonation and smelled kinda funny, so trying...

There's a recipe, that's brewing in my head and it's taking shape in really small steps. So to maybe hasten it a bit - I'd like to share it with you and maybe get some advice on it. A bit of backstory: There's a small piece of memory in my head from childhood about seeing a movie, where some...

Hello, fellow homebrewers I'm in a process of brewing right now so if any urgent answers will come - I will be grateful. I was doing a temperature mash, with 30min protein rest (50C) and after that I turned on the stove to raise temperature of mash for saccharification. Then suddenly I've...

Dear collegues, I've recently brewed a batch of quadruple, ~10.5 abv strong, with honey. And as usual when bottling - I have a "test" bottle, where I pour the last drops from the carboy. Usually this bottle has ~1cm of yeast in it and is 3/5 full with beer. This bottle is opened the first...

Hi there I've heard a couple of times that the sun is bad for the beer. But how much sun is bad, exactly? I have my beer fermenting in the kitchen in a glass carboy and naturally there's a window, where the sun shines at certain period of the day. Now there's no direct sunlight that hits...

Hello, I've browsed through all of google in search for one hops table that I've seen some time ago. And since I cannot find it - maybe someone who will read this will know what I am talking about from the description: There was a web page with hops listed with their respective bitterness...

I'm in despair. It's my brewnight and I'm almost finished - done boiling the wort and left it in a bath tub to cill. and long story short, raw water got into the wort. and quite a bit - it was 11 litres of wort when I left it and now it's 14 l. Is the beer savable yet? I'm doing the...

Hello, fellow brewers. I'm just curious what do you do with your gravity check samples? Do you pour it back in the fermenter? Or drink it? or just dump it? Asking before doing the first check :D

Hello, fellow brewers. Only a few days before I start brewing my first all grain. I've decided to go with a BIAB method and here's what I've got: 4.75 gal pot (sadly it's the largest pot I've found) 8.8 lbs of base malt 4.4 lbs of caramel malt (I don't know exact names of malts, since...

Hello, fellow brewers. I'd like to try my first All-Grain recipe next week and on that occasion some acquaintance of mine that works in a commercial brewery is willing to present me with a 5kg of caramel malt. Now I am not exactly sure if it's a CaraAmber, or CaraHell, or WhatTheHell :D I...

Hi! My question mostly concerns extracts, since when one does an all-grain, he probably chooses whichever yeast he wishes. But when buying an extract, the packet of yeast usually comes with the malt can. I believe that sometimes the "Ale" word on the label might be misleading and yeast...

Hey there, people. I'm a bit confused here. I'm reading the recipes and instructions all over HBT and most of the time people are talking in gallons, pounds, etc. Since I live in a country with Metric system in use - I'm confused. There are 2 different gallons - Imperial and US. When one says...

I hope it's not against the rules to create such topics, but I just couldn't resist. So sorry if such things have no place in here.

Hello, I'm brewing the Brewferm kit's beer and I've a question about a period after the beer's been bottled. Instruction says it's to be held in a warm place of ~24C for a week and then store in a cooler place of ~10C for another 6-8 weeks. Now how much exactly is the 10C necessary? In my...

Good evening, fellow brewers. I'm working on a design of a seal/logo that would go on the labels of my HBs. Thou it's still a work in progress - I'd like to share with you two of the options that I've came up with. I'd like to keep the fiery theme, but I'm not sure about the font that I'm...

Hey there! How do you go about cleaning the fermenter after bottling your beer? I've washed mine pretty thoroughly (thou didn't disinfect), but the yeast scent didn't go away. It smells as if the beer was still fermenting in it (thou seems clean and dry). Thanks!

Hello there, fellow brewmasters and brewnoobs :) I've finally realized my dream and bought my brewing equipment with my first extract kit. After carefully choosing all that was available from our local store here in Lithuania - I've chosen Brewferm's Christmas beer kit (This kit is special in...