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Hey guys, so my last 3 batches got infected, I think by a lactic bacteria (Looks like what this guy had http://imgur.com/a/P1l8f). So, I tried replacing my rubber hoses and washing my bracket very well as well as soaking it in Starsan. I also sanitize using Starsan in every brew. So...

Hey, Tried to brew a stout, after 3 weeks opened the bucket to find this. Anybody knows if the beer's ruined? Should I toss it?

Hey, I am making cider in my dorm so my beer brewing equipment isn't here so I use the following method \ equipment to try my hand with hard cider (it's more conviniant in dorms then brewing beer). I have a glass carboy with a stopper and an airlock. I made sure the system's air tight. I...

Hey, I made a mistike and didn't calculate how much wort do I have (Due to lots of accidents in the process - it wasn't my brew day). I now have 15 litres of cool wort with no way of making more. My question is - What's the best way to go from here? I thought about diluting the wort to 16 - 17...

Hello, I want to start aging some cider in my dorm room (I'm legal no worries). Because of this lack of space I want to use a small 5 Litre glass jug I have as a fermentor and I want to be able to make as many batches as I can, so I was thinking about fermenting for 2-3 weeks, then backsweeten...

Hey, So my beer order came and the guys at the LHBS made a mistike and gave me S-33 instead of an S-04. I was planning on brewing a nut brown with this recepie: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f67/nut-brown-ag-30187/ Going back means i'll have to wait a week becaue it's a holiday in here (Happy...

Hey, Kind of new to all grain, still getting the hang of it. So I read some instructions on how to mash and I got confused: Some people told me to mash, get the first runnings, then, when the water runs out, put the sparge water, wait about 10 minuets and start the process of geting the second...

Hello, This is the second time I attempt all grain. The first time, I got some help from this forum and managed to brew an ESB. I wanted to push the envelope a little so I decided of making a wheat beer. I didn't find a recepie I liked, but from what I read there isn't much room for...

Hey, So I have a few swing-top Grolsch bottles I love very dearly, and unfortunatly I fergot to rinse one right away and now it has this dry - beer marks on its side - You probably know what I'm talking about. Anyone knows a magic remedy to save it? Hot water doesn't work and soap doesn't...

Hey, So I am making the final preperations for my frist all grain after a year of extract and specialty grains. I got everything I need to brew a Common Room ESB, a recepie I found on the forum: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f64/common-room-esb-83878/ Its simplicity made me think it's a good...

Hey, So I have a plastic fermentation bucket. Brewed a couple of beers in it, and each time cleaned it well. I have been on a break from brewing because of school so haven't been brewing for almost half a year. Today I opened it, and I smelled the sweet smell of yeast. Now don't get me...

Hey, So I started converting a rubbermaid style round cooler to a mash tun. I want to go for a false bottom made out of two pizza screens and a mash in between them to make a false bottom. My question is, how much room should I leave underneath? How high off the bottom of the cooler should I...

Hello, I am a homebrewer in Israel and we do not get much diversity in here in terms of beer yeasts. I have a friend that is currently in Germany for a trip, so I figured I will ask him for a yeast that is only avalible in Germany to make something really spacial. Prefferably a wheat beer yeast...

Hey, just wanted to share. This is my 5th batch of extract with specialty grain. So far I have been using Us-05 so that's my benchmark. I'm used to pitching the yeast, then waiting an excruiciating 12 hours for a sign of life from it. This time I went with a german dunkel, so I got WB-06...

Hey, I am going to brew a wheat dunkel beer from a recepie I found. It calls for an ounce of Hallertauer hops. I have half an ounce laying around from a previus brew and I like the armoa of those hops, so I thought I might add 1.5 oz of hops even though the recepie calls for 1. Do you think...

Hi, So I have a rye ale in bottles now. I just wanted to see what does rye teste like in beer so I used an extract and steeped 1 pound of rye and 1 pound of crystal 20. I used us-05 yeast. I left the beer for 2 weeks in the fermentayion bucket. It fermented at 80F because it's hot right now...