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Is there any harm in me redoing it? Now I’m genuinely curious. I did not let it bloom so perhaps that’s what went wrong. I just poured right into the 150 degree water. I just watched a video of a guy who does one cup of water and an entire packet of gelatin or 2.5 tsp. 1 tsp should have been...

Thanks. Yeah I’m not sure either. I got that those steps from several sources. But yeah...it didn’t work so...something went wrong. Beer tastes great which I guess is the important part. But I really want to figure this out.

Woo boy. This is a can of worms these days. You typically pitch lager yeast at 48 deg. F and step up the temp as fermentation goes along to get to a diacetyl rest and then crash it cold (lager) in the 30’s. But certain lager yeast strains allow for fermentation at ale yeast temp and shorter...

so I fined with gelatin 3 days ago in my keg. Heated 3/4 cup of water to 155 degrees and added one TSP of gelatin and stirred until dissolved. The night before I racked my beer from bucket to keg and put on the gas at 30 psi so that the next night when I added said above gelatin solution the...

I brewed a schwarzbier (partial mash) this weekend. I used Munich malt, Vienna malt, crystal 120, black patent malt and DME. I used Perle and tettnang hops. Pitched with Saflager 34/70 at 66 degrees using my brew jacket fermentation controller to keep it at 66. Nailed the mash temps and SG...

Hey man! Shot you a PM. I will be setting a time and place for a first meeting soon.

Hello all! My sister and I are starting a homebrew club in Suwanee/Duluth/Johns Creek area. We looked around and realized beer and homebrewing specifically is largely missing from this area of metro Atlanta and we want to get a community started here. Outside of newly built Good Word brewing in...