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what to do with all the grain after mashing? I take a small part of that to make bread, but what can i do with the rest? I read about dog cookies (it is not my case), chicken, ... Do i need to store the grain in some special way?

Wow!! I have just finished my second batch and for my BM50 i made the sparging with 1 liter per kilo. But it is true that to reach 50 liters i had to add 4 or 5 liters of water before boiling

Is it possible to brew a non alcoholic Beer at home?

My question is to prime or not do to a FG too high. If I prime sugar the FG in bottle would be almost 1018. Do bottles crash it?

As i have read i should use oxi (chemipro) with warm water to take off labels. Do I have to sanitized the bottles after that or that's it (just in one step i take off labels and clean bottles)?

I have a brown ale in a primary for a 2 weeks. Nowadays is FG 1016. (IG 1054) I have read that for priming put inside each bottle 1 tea spoon of sugar (dextrose or brown sugar). I think that the objective is to increase the G in two points (about 4-6 gr. sugar per liter). Do i need to put sugar...

Hi, i am preparing a Citra & Amarillo IPA recipe and i was wondering about how many steps should I use during mashing? Why some recipes do have several mashing steps and others, like IPA, just one step? some suggestions? in my ipa recipe i would make just one mashing step with 154F...

As I have read in several brewing books, lot of ales recipes, talks about leaving 1 week in a primary fermenter and after that bottling. I am worried because no fermenting activity is seen (no bubbles in airlock, no kaeusen,..) nowadays while ferment was very vigorous first 2 days. Any problem...

Hi to all, it is my first batch - from Spain - and after a little problems during the brew day (just learning..). Brown Ale. OG 1052 3 days from fermentation starts. I used Safale S-04. No much bubbles in the airlock. Kraeusen during 2 days and is over. Yesterday took gravity 1020. Today...