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I have 12lb of milled grain. It has been sitting in the freezer for 3 weeks. I am moving my apartment and this grain will have to go in a storage unit and sit there for a month. What will happen to it, the storage unit is not air conditioned. Should i throw it out or try it after a month?

I am making a modified Kölsch clone. I use 3.3 lb pilsner malt 3.3 lb pale ale malt. 2oz of Hallertau. It is going to come out much darker than typical Kölsch. :D The recipe right now cost me about $35. I know I can reuse yeast etc. I have a different question. I have 2 ideas for...

Suppose I have a batch where the yeast has already settled and it is sitting in a conical that has a yeast collection thing at the bottom. Can I take the yeast collection thing and just dump it into a new batch, without doing it like it says in the you tube videos, sterilize jars etc. Sure the...

I have another fer mentor it is a bucket, I usually use it for cold crushing, conical is too big for the fridge. There is still a couple of days left, there is still like a bubble every 30 seconds, never seen anything like this. Usually boom done, 24-36 hours. I keg, picture wise I guess i...

I taste about a spoon of extract wort and it tastes like honey, this stuff tasted like sugar water. I am familiar with the yeast safale us-05 - Fermentis. What is worrying me is that I only have 10 days to ferment it, than I need the fer mentor. It's been 5 days and it hasn't sank, typically...

Usually I make extract batches, but exited how cheap I can make it I decided to try an all grain batch. First of when making extract I often taste it before adding hops and the taste is great, this time it tasted kinda like sugar water not the same honey like taste I get with extract. I...

Last time I tried to force carbonate, the whole batch turned to foam, couldn't get less than half glass of foam. This time around I just connected everything pressurized to dispensing pressure, though I thought I'd try a little bit, tastes fine to me and there is some head. This is my second...

i didn't have a wrench to tighten the connection properly, got the wrench. It's been sitting for an hour I don't think the pressure dropped even by a .1 Going to wait a couple of hours to see if it drops. Is there any acceptable pressure drop say .1 bar in 10 hours. I'm not going to loose a...

My co2 set up is leaking at a rate of about .1 bar an hour. Can I still keg my beer. Say I keg it force carbonate it and than just shut off the co2 valve on the canister. That way I won't loose all of my co2. It probably take me a week to drink this keg, than I'll go see what I can do...

nylon washer, I don't think I have one. i don't have Teflon tape either. I might be paranoid about the leak. I closed the gas to see if the pressure is dropping, gonna check on it in a few hours. I found 2 washers I think they are probably from there. How does something seal itself, that I...

I just bought the keg co2 regulator and all. I tightened all the connections by hand, also I don't have any thread locker. The connections on the regulator leak so bad I can feel it just by putting my finger there. Thought maybe I'd keg the beer today but it seems like I am missing...

7 days of fermentation there are specs of crap floating on top. I want to cold crush it now but I think I will need to transfer it to a bucket to fit in the fridge. Also how do you drain a conical, through the bottom seems like the least painful way. I could just leave it where it is and do...

fermenting 6 days. Small specs floating on the top, yet the yeast had sank to the bottom a while back. is this some kind of stubborn yeast? The second question I have is why do you have to do secondary in a different bucket, or secondary at all. It's in a conical now and there is that...

Happy 4th of July! My life would be different in the states, you're right 100%. I wouldn't try your little life is so easy in Canada thing, because I experience a lot of that here and it wasn't pretty. In the US I would probably have a gun and live in a trailer, or many many guns my own...

I am not a troll. Subsidized housing, people die here. Here I am brewing cop cars show up and I find out Colin is dead and I knew he was going to die, but **** while I am brewing. Most of the people that past away liquor, cherry, drugs. I only drink beer and only the 5% kind.