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Hey, So I have a plastic fermentation bucket. Brewed a couple of beers in it, and each time cleaned it well. I have been on a break from brewing because of school so haven't been brewing for almost half a year. Today I opened it, and I smelled the sweet smell of yeast. Now don't get me...

Hey, So I started converting a rubbermaid style round cooler to a mash tun. I want to go for a false bottom made out of two pizza screens and a mash in between them to make a false bottom. My question is, how much room should I leave underneath? How high off the bottom of the cooler should I...

Hello, I am a homebrewer in Israel and we do not get much diversity in here in terms of beer yeasts. I have a friend that is currently in Germany for a trip, so I figured I will ask him for a yeast that is only avalible in Germany to make something really spacial. Prefferably a wheat beer yeast...

Hey, just wanted to share. This is my 5th batch of extract with specialty grain. So far I have been using Us-05 so that's my benchmark. I'm used to pitching the yeast, then waiting an excruiciating 12 hours for a sign of life from it. This time I went with a german dunkel, so I got WB-06...

Hey, I am going to brew a wheat dunkel beer from a recepie I found. It calls for an ounce of Hallertauer hops. I have half an ounce laying around from a previus brew and I like the armoa of those hops, so I thought I might add 1.5 oz of hops even though the recepie calls for 1. Do you think...

Hi, So I have a rye ale in bottles now. I just wanted to see what does rye teste like in beer so I used an extract and steeped 1 pound of rye and 1 pound of crystal 20. I used us-05 yeast. I left the beer for 2 weeks in the fermentayion bucket. It fermented at 80F because it's hot right now...