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How long would you keep a saison on fruit puree for? I'm splitting a 10 gallon saison dupont-ish clone with a friend who wants to add blood orange puree to his 5 gallons. The saison has 26 IBU's (east kent bittering, saaz/sterling aroma) and WLP565 was used in primary. Fermented at 80F-83F...

Personally I would go ahead and pitch the second pack if you can get one. But I would definitely add more bugs from other bottles to get a more complex final product (and more sour). I mixed a pack of 3278 with a pack of 3763 in 5 gallons of primary and was very pleased with the results a...

>>should I mail order another pack and pitch it when I blend them all into the barrel?<< You could do that -- you'll be increasing the same balance of microbes though. I would buy a few bottles of your favorite Krieks, save the dregs, grow up a large amount of slurry and pitch that. What Euro...

>>makes my teeth hurt<< I totally agree. It sounded really weird when I heard about it. My first thought was off flavors from the beer passing through the metal. Strange... I think I'm going to go with a few layers of cheese cloth.

Today I was told that some people use steel wool in their auto-siphon when racking to be sure to get the cleanest beer as possible into secondary. Has anyone here done this? The reason I ask is because of my issue of the broken hydrometer. There's still a slight chance that a small amount...

I wouldn't use the Roselare blend with an IPA. It works really well in ales with low low IBUs. I made a Flemish Red with it in May 2008 and had a nice, sour, beer by middle of August. It fermented in a hot room of my house all summer at 77-83F. I primaried with it for 5 weeks, out of...

I turn them inside out like you mentioned and then air dry. When completely dry I just work the material a bit to get all the dried flakes out. I've only dry hopped once, and when I did, I added pellets to secondary. Big mistake. So when I racked the beer to tertiary I wrapped the end of...

I brewed 10 gallons of Flanders Red with the Wyeast Roselare blend two weeks ago. It will sit for 10 months in secondary and I will add sour cherries (1 pound per gallon) and let it sit on the fruit for 4 months. So by the end of summer 2010 I should have 10 gallons of funked out red ale...

After sterilizing it the hydrometer was in the wort for no longer than 30 seconds or so. I usually put it in the wort because its easier for me to get a decent reading in the kettle instead of screwing around with a thief (which I end up doing anyway when sampling from carboys). Thanks for...

The tip that was cracked was the bottom of the hydrometer. The lead tip is exposed - the stem isn't broken. Sorry if I was unclear.

While cleaning equipment after brewing I noticed that the small glass tip of my hydrometer was cracked off. It might have been broken prior to the brew session, or I might have cracked it afterwards - I just don't know. I'm not so concerned about glass shards because I used a strainer while...

Two and a half weeks ago I brewed a sweet stout, O.G. 1.070. It's down to 1.020 and I want to transfer to secondary and put it on cherry puree. 1) Is it too early to do this 2) How long should it stay on the cherry puree Thanks!

>>Where were the bubbles coming from?<< Yes they were coming from the beer, and the racking cane was completely submerged in the beer. It would make sense that the bubbles were C02 and not oxygen. Thanks for easing my paranoia. :mug:

Hi guys, So I tried dryhopping a Celebration Clone for the first time recently. Pellets in secondary directly on beer, and voila! Lots of microscopic bits of hops floating everywhere. Left it like that for 6 days. Then, while racking to tertiary, in an effort to get the hops off of the...

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Thanks - I'll do just that. No need to waste good bottles.

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I just found this forum today while I was bored at work. Nice site - I hope to be able to contribute when I can, although my knowledge base is still growing. I'm still new to this stuff. There's a vendor that has a Brew on Premises setup that I've produced a couple of batches at. I made...