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I just had a thought! I'm using flip top bottles instead of bottle caps. Should I just wait until one explodes, then flip the tops to vent the rest? Would that be enough to save the beer?

I forgot to mention. The yeast should have been pretty good. It was one of those Wyeast smack packs and we let it expand for 5 hours before pitching. The beer has been fermenting at a stable temperature of 68F. I'm not entirely sure why it stuck, or whether I'm just misinterpreting the 1.040...

I added lactose at bottling before and it worked out great. I had read a post somewhere that as a non-fermentable sugar it didn't really matter much when it was added. I know some bacterias can process lactose, so I figured I'd be reducing my chances of a bacteria taking hold if I added it at...

Hi guys, I need some advice with my current brew. I'm brewing a Cream Stout from extract. It's been in the primary fermenter for 3 weeks. I decided to go directly to bottle today, and assumed that the fermentation would be complete after 3 weeks. I stupidly didn't check the SG first...

The page on uinta lists this beer as 34 ibu and 16 srm with a reddish color. Im pretty sure I can taste rye in the beer, but other than that I have no hints as to what the recipe could be.

Hi, I'm brewed a Maibock from extract and just finished topping up the carboy with water and pitched the yeast. I then checked the OG and it's shockingly low at 1.022. I guess I added too much water while topping it up. I tasted the sample in my hydrometer jar, and it's definitely too thin...

Old thread, but it came up when I was searching for an answer to a similar puzzle. Others might like to know: This conversion makes it easy to use those hand-held co2 chargers on a sankey tap too. I keep a regular half-barrel keg in the house fridge, tapped for drinking. I keep my cornies...

Mine was labeled "Bavarian Wheat" packaged by LD Carlson. It's the package they handed me when I asked for "Light Wheat DME". I bought it locally, but I've seen identical packages of it available online. I never did find a product that actually said "Light Wheat DME". I believe Wheat DME...

I read through the whole thread and saw several people mention replacing the vanilla extract with vanilla beans. I just happen to have 4 vanilla beans left over from the holiday cooking spree, and would like to use them. I saw no definitive answer on how many vanilla beans to use, when to...

At the very least you'll want to purge any oxygen still in the keg. Keeping it at least a little bit pressurized will also help maintain a seal. How long are you planning to keep it in storage?

I recently (about two months ago) switched from using One-step to Starsan for all of my sanitation needs. Mainly because Starsan is a better sanitizer with less contact time needed. However, since the change, I've noticed that both of my bottle brushes have a layer of rust on the wire from...

I'm looking for the same thing. Also, I think the link changed since the original post: http://www.uintabrewing.com/UintaBeerView.aspx?Page=Cutthroat

The instructions included in the kit were generic for all of the kits the LHBS provides. It specifies a 45 minute boil, but upon purchasing the kit, the cashier recommended a 60 minute boil, and wrote it on the hops package. I do intend to reboil for the full 60 minutes. I'm about 12 minutes...

I bought a "Mexican Cerveza" kit from my LHBS, and it included everything I needed. However, during the boil I forgot to add the bittering hops. There were no finishing hops included nor required in the recipe. I had chilled the wort down to 80F before I finally found the still-dry hops bag...