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Has anyone made themselves an easy yeast nutrient? Long text ahead, bear with me: My wife makes sourdough bread, which is done without yeast. She grows it somehow by feeding flour and water to the dough. For some reason it "overgrows" and you end up with that excess "not -yet-dough". I was...

I'm really interested with storing and growing up self-sufficient yeast bank! Is there anything that I could use instead of the DME? Or could I make too big batches of wort for a brew and freeze the excess wort in small containers, melt it and grow the yeast in there? So instead of using DME...

So made my first try at brewing yesterday. Aim was for my 5L fermentor to be "fullish". Got about 3L of wort after boiling. So easy math would say that add 1liter more to sparge, to get to the wanted 4L wort amount. (To leave headspace 1L) But is there anything wrong with such simple conclusion?

So, I've been boiling wort and some thicker stuff builds up on top of the wort. I've been scooping these away with a sif. Am I doing it wrong?

So I got lucky, kind of, won an auction that had 1237 green 750ml bottles. Was in a brewery bankruptcy auction. Just wondering if there is a bench cappers that are going to outlast me? Since now I have huge amount of bottles of same size (will be giving away most) and I don't like buying crap...

Really short and simple question: How do you get the wort to the measuring tube in a mess free way? Ps. I'm totally new to beer brewing and measuring gravity...

Sorry for asking dumb questions, but what is this "rs"? Thanks for the help

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Hi all! I'm from Finland and starting to settle in to our homestead. I'm starting with home brew beer, trying to make everything from scratch. First batch of DIY malt gone mouldy just now, after the steepings, while waiting them to germinate and grow. Should have started the fans before, but...