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actually, no. we don't have DME/LME in here... except for a very suspicious extract we find at some natural stores and and muntons extract cans, which are, considering import taxes and all, WAY too expensive for me. i thought about the pilsener malt because i thought that, being somewhat...

people, i'm planning on brewing a belgian dubbel for a homebrew contest. Problem is, we don't have any white labs or wyeast yeasts commercially available here in brazil (liquid yeasts are still lacking on sanitary license), so my only options are: 1) use a dry yeast from fermentis (s-33 or...

i used it two times, both in hefeweizens. the first one... well, i dont remember much (a long time ago). what a DO remember is having a refreshing but flavorfull beer. the second one i made last month and I'm drinking it now (hooray!). I fermented in room temperature (summer in the southern...

when we al started learning stuff about beer, someone said that that the differences beetween lagers and ales was that in lagers there was bottom fermentation - that is, instead of the traditional krausen, there would be some kind of "underwort krausen". but the thing is: from what i've seen...

ok, thanks! one more thing, about the italian fancy stainless steel tap with handle. does it REALLY make that much of a difference? or is there a cheaper kind of tap that I can use (other than, of course, my mash tun valves)?

ok, thanks (although trying to converse all those measurements to metric system by head while sober is quite difficult) so, my beer is overcarbonated. How do I fix that? release the pressure, than what? just let it sit there until it fixes by itself, releasing more of the inner pressure now and...

10 feet!? ok, here is the thing... the biggest consumer of my beer is myself (hehe) so I rarely take more then two pints at a time. wouldnt it spoil my beer just to let it sit there in 10 feet of hose for a few days? I always clean my hose after I use it, but there would be a great spoilage of...

I carbonated it (and serve it) inside a refrigerator - around 37F. But the beer doesn't seem overcarbonated... I actually think it's less carbonated then my bottle ones...

People, I started with cornelius kegs just a while ago. I remember listening a lot of people talking about huge foam problems, but I never gave that much attention until I got my own cornys and started suffering from this issue. Now, I looked in a lot of topics about this subject, but in a...

My beloved people, I just did a lager beer yesterday (a munich dunkel), but instead of pitching the yeast right after the cooling, i just left it alone, in 2 (totally sanitized) vessels - one in my ordinary refrigerator (filled with food and stuff with approximately 6ºC/43ºF) and the small...

I was, just now, brewing a Hefeweizen, when the gas ran out - right in the middle of the boil. and i wont be able to get more until monday morning... and because of my work, I won't be resuming the process until 11:30 am. So, am I completely ****ed? as anything like this ever happened to you?

3 pounds of honey for how many pounds of malt? and whats the final yield? 5 gallons?

People, i'm going for a batch of my first witbier in the next few days, but I have a doubt. In some recipes, I have seen only a base-malt+unmalted wheat, in a base of 50/50, but something sounds fishy over that - as unmalted wheat, for what I remember, don't contribute with any sugars. A few...

folks, I've been invited as a guest speaker in a design congress, and because of my "other interests" as a homebrewer, I decided to offer a workshop on beer production and beer culture, featuring a live brew! Problem is: the workshop would be held on the wendsday, and the congress closing...

so, basically, if I bottle my beer now i'll be creating hand grenades? that sounds like a damn good reason not to do it ;) and thanks everyone for the answers. I'll just leave it has it is - though I forgot to mention something: it's summer here (Brazil, everybody!) and though i'm in a fairly...

ok, so I made my first all-grain batch of barley wine last saturday. Problem is, I completely forgot that I would be going on a travel 6 days later. =p So these are the facts... I have divided this batch in 3 yeasts (S-04, S-05 and T-58) and by today I still have some action in all of them -...