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I decided this year to try and grow my own hops. I ordered some rhizomes of Willamette from midwest supplies. I had planed to grow them on an archway in our backyard to function both as an ornamental plant but to harvest at the end of the season and use in my beer. My question is will this...

Pretty simple question here I think. We are brewing a Russian Imperial Stout. Based off the brewers best kit but a little different. Here is the recipe. 8 oz Roasted Barley 8 oz Dark Crystal 8 oz Carmel 60L 6.6 lbs Dark LME 2 lbs Dark DME 1 lbs Corn Sugar 1 vial of White Labs WLP011 -...

I brewed a Brewers Best Munich helles kit about 2 weeks ago. I saw no indication of fermentation. This is my first lager style so I am not sure if i may be different. There is no airlock activity, no krausen or foam forming at the top of the fermenter. I moved it into a secondary fermenter...

Brewed last night and pitched yeast at about 1AM. Woke up and the airlock was bubbling away happily. Got home from work and I walk into the room and think, boy does it smell like beer in here, and look over to see splatter all over. How long wil it keep something like this up. I have...

Brewed a Russian Imperial Stout last night. It was a brewers beat kit that was supposed to have maltodextrin in it, but it was absent from the kit. I figure it shouldn't be too much of a problem, it was supposed to have 8 ounces. How does maltodextrin affect the beer, is it a flavor thing, is...

A friend and myself have been brewing beers for a month or 2 now, and ave started our third brew about 2 weeks ago. We let the brew sit for 1 week and saw no activity from the airlock, did some research and found that that means nothing, but when rehydrating the yeast, it got to 120*F and we...

I just bottled my beer yesterday and set it to continue to ferment for 2 weeks or so. Last night got a bitt cooler than previous nights though, and it was not kept in the same temperature controlled room as we had been keeping it. It got down to about 47*-50* in the room I had it in, this...

here are my notes on my second brew. ----------------------------------------- 5 gallons 1 Coopers Irish Stout mix (1.7kg) 1 cup Dingemans Chocolate Malt(LD Carllson Company - Moot Roost 1400) 5 cups sugar 7:34PM 2 gallons of water to pot room tempeture hydrometer reading = 0.998...

My first brew came out pretty good. Here are my notes: 5 Gallons 1 Coopers Irish Stout mix 450g Plain Light Malt 300g Sugar (approx) Brew Date: 07/30/2012 Boiled at 7:00PM O.G: 1.035 Yeast added at 9:30PM Temperature: 85* F Secondary Fermenter...

Hello all, I just finished enjoying my first brew. I bought a Cooper's irish stout and followed the instructions. It was pretty good, think I bottled a bit early but it got better after i let it sit in bottels a bit longer.