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My brew partner jammed the blow off tube onto the airlock, in order to make a blow off tube. (we didn't have the big tube) While doing this he cracked the airlock plastic.. so when it was time to remove the tube and place the actual airlock on the carboy, it was broken. Problem is i didnt...

I'm not sure what FFF did to the recipe, but this beer has definitely changed over that past few years. Maybe they cut down on the citra or subbed another hop in its place, I'm not sure, but it definitely does not have the bite it used to. I have been noticing this in bottles and in tap. It...

How do you guys leave minimal beer when racking? We cold crashed so the trub was solid and we use the biggest auto-siphon. We also kept the black cap on. As we moved the nosel towards the trub (towards the end of racking) it would either start sucking air or some of the trub. I once read a...

I'll use the Zombie Dust clone recipe, for an example: Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU 11.75 lb 2 Row (2.0 SRM) Grain 81.7 % 1.13 lb Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 7.8 % 0.50 lb Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.5 % 0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 3.5 % 0.50 lb...

After adding the DME, do we bring it back to a boil and then add hops? Or do we add the malt and hops then start the 60 minute timer? Yesterday we killed the heat, added the DME, brought it back to a boil then started the 60 minutes. thanks

Just for fun, I have been thinkin of funny names for the beers we are brewing. We only brew IPAs so every name is related to hops.. Some cool ones that are available: Hoptical Illusion Hop Notch Hoptimum Hoptometry those are the first few that came to my mind. Anyways, I can't come up with...

I was kinda impatient Friday night and opened up a 'half' beer thats only been bottle conditioning for a week. It was the last beer we bottled and only filled halfway. I thought what the hell, i'm gonna pop this thing. Given we have been tasting this beer pretty much throughout the entire...

The temps will range from 60-68F. Will they still carbonate eventually? Or is the 70-72F range essential?

About five minutes into chilling, we noticed that one of the chiller coils was leaking water into our wort. How much of an effect will this have? Will our beer be infected? Thanks Sent from my SPH-L720 using Home Brew mobile app

We are ready to bottle but we accidentally used our racking tube for our blow off tube.. it is discolored and smells like beer kind of.... Brew partner and I took turns running boiling hot water through it along with scoops of PBW. The tube appears to be clean, but is slightly yellow colored. It...

The bottles we're using were ruined thoroughly immediately after being opened. Right now I'm scrubbing them and soaking them with starsan, then im gonna load them into my dishwasher but without detergent. Is this good enough? Sent from my SPH-L720 using Home Brew mobile app

Here is my background in homebrewing: started doing research about 3 months ago (Dec '13) and didn't actually brew til 3 weeks ago. I read everything I could from extract to all grain. It consumed me. It felt amazing to learn more and more about something I originally had no knowledge about. I...

This is reworked version of the Zombie Dust clone: Batch Size: 5g Boil Volume: 6.5g 6.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 70.6 % 1.00 lb Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 11.8 % 0.50 lb Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 % 0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %...

We are dry hopping for 5 days with 3oz of pellets. We have the extra fine bag, but I think I'm just gonna dump them in loose. We plan on cold crashing in an ice bath for 3-4 days. Also, we're not using a secondary. Will there be any pellet crap still floating after the cold crash? And if...

We followed the extract version of the Zombie Dust clone recipe, except we switched the bittering hops from citra to warrior. We tasted the primary.. and wow, it smells and tastes very similar to Zombie dust!! The aftertaste is kind of similar to body odor... We weren't sure if this is from...

When racking from the brewpot into the primary, we filtered through one of those big paint bags from Home Depot. It caused a ton of foam inside the carboy, to the point where it was just spilling out the top where the funnel was. How do we prevent this for our next brew? It dried up on the...

When tracking to the primary, we filtered through the paint bag from home depot (sterilized) I squeezed the bag at the end with all the hoppy juice.. not sure if my hands were entirely sanitary because I touched a towel right before to wipe up foam. Did I run my batch possibly? Should...

Brew partner pushed the rubber cork too hard and it ended up right inside our glass carboy. Obviously, we can't put the airlock and blow tube on anymore. What do you suggest? ATM we have a piece of foil over the top of carboy. Will the rubber stopper have an effect on our brew? (For what its...

last night I pitched my activator packet.. it was inflated like normal but I dumped the plastic bag in by mistake. We left it in there over night, and I just removed it like five minutes ago. The part of wyeast packet didn't pop... it was completely inflated with this black liquid inside. The...

This will be my first brew, thought I'd share my recipe and get some feedback. This is a modified version of the Zombie Dust clone recipe. Thanks in advance! 5 gallon batch 6.5 gallon boil size 60 minute boil time 1lb munich malt 8oz caramel malt 8oz carapils 8oz melanoiden...