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The last couple of batches that I’ve bottled have been randomly infected (gushers, along with a very dry finish); maybe 75% infected, 25% not). I soaked all bottles in Oxyclean for 20-30 minutes, rinsed with tap water, then soaked in Iodophor for around 5 minutes. Appropriate concentrations were...

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I just kegged this last night. Even though there is a strong hop and malt profile, you can unmistakeably detect esters in the beer.

I brewed Jamil's West Coast Blaster this past weekend. I overshot the gravity, since I used by Barley Crusher for the first time and got an OG of 1.076. The IBU according to Beersmith was 61. I didn't get a chance to monitor the fermentation for the first 48 hours and upon going to the chest...

Can you submerge an immersion chiller in an electric boil kettle that has the element permanently installed in the side? If not, what alternatives are there (maybe putting immersion chiller in before first drawings, so that no pressure is directly applied to heating element)? Thanks

Is it even worth mashing in at your desired saccharification and then do a decoction to mash out? Can you get the appropriate mellanoidins from this type of mashing schedule that you'd get from a protein to saccharification decoction mash?

Thanks for the info! Is there a dried strain of Wyeast 3068 or WLP300?

Is WB-06 a dried 3068 yeast strain?

What kind of taste difference will 2-row in a Bavarian Hef give when replacing Pilsner malt?

For Jamil's hefeweizen recipe I made, I pitched a 1.5L starter and fermented at 62F, monitoring it by a digital temperature controller and thermostopper. This is the confusing part.

It's a little hard to describe. It's kind of like a medicine off flavor, but the smell is something that I would guess to be DMS. I've read that medicine taste could be from phenols, but I sanitize thoroughly and the batches in between these two have turned out great. I guess the only thing...

Hi, I've done about 6 all grain brews, and the 4 that I did without pilsner malt turned out great. I brewed Jamil's hefeweizen and NB's Lefse Blonde. They both came out not so good and had the same off flavor. I use proper sanitation practices, temperature control and pitching rates. My...

Anybody have a good recipe for a christmas/spruce porter for the holidays?

I just bought a chest freezer for a fermentation vessel, and it's stored in my girlfriend's basement. My question is how "big" is the sulphur smell when you open the chest freezer? Could it stink up a whole basement or just a certain sized area around the freezer? How long does this smell...

Is it safe to put the sanitized end of a Ranco digital thermometer into my primary to regulate fermentation temperatures?