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I've not heard of a beer going bad and getting more bitter. What are your IBUs? If they're high for the style, it would taste bitter. Aging will help this. My guess - and it's just that - is that all of your beer is fine. I'd get a second opinion if it were my brew. I tasted "flaws" in...

What was your mash temp?

Can you give some more details? What kind of beer? What do you mean by "flavor was off"? How long before the heat wave did you bottle? How long was the heat wave? I have had a heatwave of 90+ degrees while a pale ale was in secondaries and it turned out fine. I've also had a belgian...

The stupidest thing I've done so far is put an airlock instead of a blowoff tube on a belgian dubbel that I was fermenting in my kitchen. The airlock clogged and blew out, spewing krausen all over my kitchen wall and blinds. My wife, who was a good sport about it, called me at work...

The biggest challenge I can think of, and one I have not been able to accomplish, is brewing a batch where I don't make or buy any new equipment :D Last time it was buying a larger immersion chiller to chill my 10gal batches faster, and this time it was building a stir plate. It seems never...

Thanks. I'll do the same - cut them down and cover them. If they grow they grow, and I'll try to wrangle the growth in late Winter/early Spring, or cut them back again if they've gotten too unruly.

Hopefully this isn't too old of a thread to dig up. I went to cut my (first year) hops flush the other day, and found new growth near the ground; the bines are starting to bud new offshoots. I'm wondering if that's a California thing and they won't go dormant because of the relatively high...

Just bottled the rest of the keg with the BMBF. Holy smokes that's easy! Beer gun deleted from Christmas list!!! Pics: Thanks for the tip!

Excellent call! Haven't done it before, but I have all the parts I need for this :tank:

Apparently you just have to buy one LOL. It's happened to me before when I brew a beer that I'm not that thrilled with, but am looking forward to the next one in the queue. Dang I need a dual tap!

Because I don't have room in my kegerator. I have a primary of bock taking up all my space. Another nice problem to have I guess!

Ever noticed how deep a keg you want to die is? I had a lull in brewing a while back, so had to order a commercial keg to fill the gap and now it won't die!! I have two kegs of my homebrew ready to go now, but this Sierra Nevada keg I'm trying to drain just won't kick. And it's only a 5...

This is unreal!!! World Champs!! I was with my mother and father in law who have been waiting a loooong time for this. Very exciting. My father-in-law grew up a Giants fan in New York, and moved here in '56, only to have them follow him here. Hard to describe his emotions right now. Amazing.

In growing my own hops, I was thinking it might be nice to test the alpha acid concentration at home with an easy method, so I'm partial to the alpha acid experiment. I found this ASBC method that looks really easy and requires minimal equipment. I was thinking of splurging on an old Spec 20...

HAHA, funny. [Goes immediately to McMaster Carr to order the rare earth magnets he needs to complete the stir plate]

This might be waaaay overkill, but I put about 80% of the water into the flask and get that boiling on my hotplate. In the meantime I mix the remaining approximately 20% of water and DME together in a mason jar, shaking to dissolve. When the water in the flask is boiling, I add the DME mixture...

Granted, but I found it in the back of my fridge behind the orange juice that expired in June. I wish for professional level batch to batch consistency.

I've never sanitized my bottles by heat, but working in medical devices I have used dry heat to sterilize and depyrogenate devices. Typical steam sterilization temps are 121C (250F) and dry heat is the same or higher depending on how long you want to let them sit at that temp. Here is a good...

It was strange to see Oswalt last night. I wonder if he'll start whatever game he's scheduled to if it comes to that. I guess he didn't throw that many pitches, but you know how those starters are about their rest...