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I have run into the growler branding issue in SoCal. I have never bottle conditioned in a growler, but I would not hesitate to do so in...

The ONLY person that is required for judging my beer is ME> I brew beer to drink not to please some judge somewhere I never met. If...

Follow up - no doubt decoction adds some oxidation. As a low oxygen brewer, I am trying sort of the same sort of approach - controlled...

As a homebrew store owner, I kind of understand how you feel like you couldn't get the kind of help you needed. Did the guy have the...

It's a double whammy. I gather the OP has no AG brewing experience at this point, and now a completely foreign set of tools which no...

For me at least, if I had two water sources and only one was analyzed, I wouldn’t mess around with the one I knew nothing about. What’s...

Having a sac of grain means you have a mill. I suggest that for the first couple of brews (if recirculating) set the gap at .035-.040 to...

Easiest way is to just do the decoction. If you can boil water you can hack it.

A guy in the club made an IPA with 2022 hops that were stored in a zip lok bag in the fridge this summer. He said they smelled cheesy...

I feel like it's time to brew a doppelbock.

Do you need to blow back through that to break syphon? Or maybe it's got a valve like a platypus (water backpack)? Important questions.

Gotcha covered.

But if you use 2 hands to roll the ball how do you hold your beer?

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A scoby will form and kombucha will be made with only using 10% of the fermented tea. You really don't need to repitch the scoby. Mine...