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I am planning on making dog treats from my spent grain, and although there is a lot written about recipes, I haven't found anything that talks about the safety of different malts. I will obviously not use chocolate malts or anything that touched hops, but are there any other types that I should...

Some of the bottles are the same, but other bottles were used in different batches without any problems. I will definitely try the diet coke test (if nothing else that sounds really cool!), but would the unwanted nucleation wait several weeks before starting? The delay is what is the most...

What would sufficient time look like? I usually keep a few bottles in the fridge for when the moment strikes, so they could be in there for a few hours or a few weeks. But I haven't done anything differently than I did on the previous batches which didn't over-carbonate.

Interesting and very clever trick, I will take those readings tonight and see what it says.

I have refrigerated the beer and I have opened it at room temperature, and it does not seem to effect the results.

The flavor was excellent without any off taste. And the FG had settled, I had both in the primary for 3 weeks and the secondary for a month.

So, I have a carbonation problem. I have brewed 6 beers, and 4 of them turned out great. However, two of them (a honey porter and regular porter) were delicious for the first month that they were in the bottle, but then suddenly after that when I pop one open, it foams like a middle school...

Thanks, I am a little worried about balance. I am now considering creating some wort by seeping a small amount of the grains for the beer (maybe 2 ounces each) with the DME in maybe a quart or so of water, and adding that into the brew. Since the overboil happened before the hops were added, I...

Hi all, I made a series of tragic errors. I brewed a Russian Imperial Stout, but while I was bringing the wort to boil after adding all of the malt, I had a very significant overboil and lost a significant amount of malt. I continued through the instructions (brewers best) and when I was...