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I've used a long metal meat skewer (brutally sanitized of course) to punch a hole in the krausen to get the pellets mostly in the beer. Haven't had any problems plus I do it gently but fast. The krausen will reform if its still active

I'm down for checking all of it out my brother!

Thats tiny! Thank you for your guidance man I really will take it to heart literally!

Is that a powder you add? And when do you add it? I'd love to brew a lower calorie beer that tastes good but im brewing on a beginner primitive system and I dont have fermentation temperature control which kills me to brew a light or lager beer dang it. Ive got the high abv brew down but it...

It seems there are several types of sugars in brew and I definitely don't know the breakdown but it would make sense that im not processing all of them and they are being stored in fat cells and in my bloodstream. Could also be hereditary which alot of my problems are. Im just trying to find a...

Its a little too much personal info but I dont care when looking for answers. My doctor did bloodwork and my triglycerides are high. Everything else is great but he blames this on my homebrews being heavy with sugar that I cant metabolize. Thats why I wanted a small window of knowledge on how...

Not at all. This batch attenuation was better then all my other brews. When I did the abv calculator it gave me well over 8%abv and the appearant calories was close to 270 per 12 oz bottle. Thats where I was wondering if there is a calculator to give an approximate amount of sugar by weigh thats...

if I have a 5 gallon batch of beer that finished out at 1.008, how much sugar does that equate to in weight of sugar thats in my beer? It also started at 1.078

I take extremely detailed notes in a notebook of everything I do on brewday. Thats how I actually went back and calculated IBUs and gu gu ratios on past brews. Ill look more into efficiency. Thanks for all your info I super appreciate it man!

I dont understand how you get the efficiency. When I do my priming sugar calculation on the app it tells me apparent attenuation but the concept of brew efficiency, I dont understand

The efficiency of my brewing system is whats confusing me. Its very primitive to say the least. I have a 16 gallon kettle that I mash in and boil in. I dont have a wort chiller so after my boil is done I just use 4 clamps to seal the lid on and wait till the next day when its cool enough to...

I'm quickly realizing the amount of diversity there is when making a beer to your own tastes. Another problem im having is my beers always come out higher gravity then I thought they would be. I'd never had thought I'd say I want less alcohol but thats the case. I recently got a grist mill so I...

My issue/problem is that I started brewing with 2 extract kits but it tasted the same with both. I watched videos on all grain and tried that. That being said, I literally shot from the hip with hip additions and grain bills without recipes or calculators cause i wanted to figure it out without...

I was just looking at it on Google. It looks like leaves off a chrysanthemum flower. Sorta. Is it just flat out bittering or does it have a flavor?

Is wormwood a bud or flower or something or is it actually wood? I should probably Google it

Interesting as hell! Dont know nothing about wormwood. Aint that what they make absinthe out of?

I wanted to go big but what I got was bigger then I thought big would be. Im having a problem with my beers being too high abv then what I want. Ive gone down to 9lbs of fresh milled base malt in a 8 gallon full volume biab. The mash I get must be great cause they are never under about 6.5-7%...

Yeah if you aint ready for blast of a full pellet, you will learn fast! I try all of mine but its the smallest of a nip off the end. I ate a whole pellet......once!

Pretty sure It was about 4.3%AA. My ibu calculator came out at about 9 IBUs if I did it correctly. 0.12 bu gu ratio also if I did it right and thats very low. I didnt know how to do this till I messed this beer up but now I'm corrected in my hopping process!

Yes 5 gallon