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I just brewed something similar and I used 1 and 1/2 peeled oranges and a little bit of zest from the peels along with some coriander for the last 10 minutes of boil. The orange flavor comes through nicely, but it has a very citric like burn to it, and I blame it on the amount of coriander I...

I would be careful trying to cool your bottles quickly, that is where your going to strain the bottles and compromise the strength. And I would imagine that sterilizing your bottles this way fatigues them and perpetuates crack growth in the bottles faster than normal use. My advise is to raise...

I did make a starter. I didn't measure the gravity of the starter but I know it was no where near 1.060, if anything it was on the low side, probably 1.030 range . Fermentation started up really quickly and quite violently for the first week. Had blow off consistently for the first couple of...

I am having the same problem with my Belgian wit. It has been 3 weeks and still bubbling at a constant rate. The annoying part is that my gravity hasn't changed much in the last week. Went from 1.024 to 1.020. The good news is it is almost there I think, just a couple more points to drop till I...

Would using old hard liquor bottles work? I have a couple 1L and 750 bottles of captain Morgan, Absolute and other stuff. I was just wondering if the caps on those are air tight? I don't know if oxygen is a problem for hard liquor, I imagine it is but just wondering if those could be usable.

To do this, would it be alright to let the other half of the wort sit while boiling the first hal? Say I were to mash as normal but instead of going from mash tun to boil kettle I went to another container. From there I would take what I could and boil it with hops, then cool and place in...

Is it really that sugary? I think he mistyped. I think he wanted to type 1.040 OG and 1.010 FG as expected values.

Thanks for the quick reply. I was aware that decreasing boil size decreases hop utilization, and luckily I have beersmith to help me figure out compensation. But, I have also read that doing a late extract addition will increase my hop utilization, I think I read somewhere by up to 25%. Not...

Just started Brewing and trying to read up and get as much information as I can but there are a couple of things i can't seem to find answers on. I Followed this link https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/DMS about DMS and it says to reduce DMS you must do a full boil of wort. I think...