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In the middle of brewing a Japanese rice lager and the directions were so bad that I accidentally added my 1/2 ounce of chinook hops during the 60 min steeping instead of the beginning of my 60 minute boil. How’s this going to affect the taste of my beer. I hate the taste of hops could this...

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I’m going to bottle of milk stout in about a week and I’m wondering about adding bourbon to give the beer a poor man‘s attempt at bourbon barrel aging? Has anybody tried this at bottling? if it’s possible to add bourbon just before I bottle do I have to worry about adding less or more bottling...

I found this article very interesting and just as I remember the brewery tour guides pitch at the Golden Colorado Brewery on many occasions in the “olden days”! Back then after the tour the beer in the tasting room was FREE, it came in 10 oz glass and was all you could drink! Back in those...

That’s why I decided to brew my own beer because many of the steps available to meet or bitter. So as a principal, I don’t like bitterness, in humanity or my brew. Haha I’m thinking of dividing a pound of lactose among my 40 to 48 bottles of beer at bottling time.

Working out the lactose is my problem. The receipt tells me how much priming sugar to use but as a newbie, what strategy might I use to work out the proper amount lactose? Lactose is non fermentable correct? Thanks DuncB in advance.

Here is my Recipe Keep in mind, this was my second ever brew and I have no personal mentors other than this site. My nearest brick and mortar home brewing supply store is a 9 hour round trip!!

How do you back sweeten a bitter stout with lactose before bottling without introducing extra oxygen when trying to break up all the clumps?

Ive brewed two Extract kits and as soon as I get all my Fermentables in the pot I go fro 6.5 gallons to 8 gallons. Both times boiled off 1-2 gallons before i add my hops. Here’s my question, after steeping my grains, after adding my Fermentable's, (LME, Lactose, DME, Maltodextrin) is it okay...

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I have a universal slide in big mouth bubbler lid. My air trap kept getting pushed out along with the lid getting pushed up. I added some tubing to the main bubbler riser and ran the additional 4’ of hose into a 5 gallon bucket of . Bubbling was intermittent about every 10 seconds but the lid...

I figured it was only beer after it was fermented. I'm new at this....I almost called it the brown liquid!

Thanks for all the great ideas, Here's my fix. I took the lid off a carboy of stout that was done fermenting a month ago, just chilling for the next few weeks b4 I bottle. Star San and Put that lid on the new BIG Milk Stout (SG 1.103) I brewed yesterday. I've got 6" of foam on the top of the...

The threads on the lid are different that what's on the carboy

I added my wort + yeast 20 hours ago but discovered the lid didn't screw on my carboy so I jammed it on. I haven't seen any bubbles yet and I suspect the co2 is leaving around the threads that are not sealing. Can I rack this brew into a new carboy that I know does seal?

Thanks everyone..... Going to get some extra DME and yeast nutrient.

I let is swirl for 20 hours and then dumped it down the drain.

I tried to pioneer a new starter. I had new new packs of Imperial Yeast and as I was boiling my water I was shocked to see my bags had partially froze in the bottom of my frig. I cancelled brewday and tried to make a yeast starter or in my case a Yeast resurrecter. Didn't have the Dried malt...

I Live along the Snake River that flows from Yellowstone National Park and Teton National Park. I'm a lover of heavy milk stouts that you can cut with a knife on the cold nights of western Wyoming (just about every night of the year!). Also I enjoy Coors Light on hot summer days but I will be...