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My google skills are failing me today. A couple years ago I read a really great post on someone's blog or website about taking old yeast, autolysing it on purpose, then using that autolysed yeast as nutrient for a new yeast starter (with fresh pitch of yeast). Has anyone ever stumbled...

Wanting to do a 2 bbl brew on our club's large system next year to fill a 60 gallon wine barrel. Shooting for an OG of 1.072 and producing around 62 gallons. Yeast calculations are coming in at around 3 Trillion yeast cells for a proper pitch. How on earth can I can produce a yeast starter...

Just read the article on the front page about NE style IPAs and in the comments was reading about adding hops to the fermenter while Fermentation is pretty active. I can imagine the krausen must be at peak at this point, and with all of that foam, what would be the best method of adding...

I caught a wild yeast off of some apple skins from my backyard this past Fall. It made some really really awesome cider. Before attempting to plate out the yeast I decided to build up the yeast count a bit more via a starter on a stir plate to store the strain as a backup and also do a small...

With proper mash temps, oxygenation, and yeast cell count, how long does it take your brews to reach full attenuation for an all grain batch? Since finally paying attention to all of the above, I am seeing by around day 4 (vs day 10) I have reached my expected final gravity, for beers in the...

Hello, I have been tasked with revamping my homebrew club's web-site. It is out of date (both design & info) and kind of hard to navigate and hard to find membership information. Does your club have a great and successful club website that is well traffic-ed that you would be willing to...

The title says it all, except that I will be moving at the end of June. I currently have 3 planters (homemade earth boxes) that are easily moveable. Except by the end of June, the plants will be VERY tall. Is it possible to just cut the bines down to the crown, and move them? And hope they...

I am researching building up my brewing water by taking distilled water and adding my salts to hit my exact water profiles. Let's take this profile for example: Amber malty: Ca 59 Mg 6 Na 14 SO4 50 Cl 45 HCO3 76 Where do I find each of...

I'm attempting to make chica. I currently have 12 lbs of corn sprouting (it smells wonderful!) and should be done in a few days. For the mash I want to avoid using powdered amylase enzyme (I'm too muh of a purist) and rely solely on the diastatic power of my malted corn. Here is my worry...

I'm making a 5 gallon bourbon barrel porter batch. The beer itself is 7% ABV. THe recipe calls for adding 16 oz of bourbon. My bourbon is 50% abv. What will the final abv be when everything is combined?

I want to further my all grain chops by getting into ph and adjusting it if necessary. However, I am confused as to when/how you adjust the mash. Say I do my 60 minute mash, take a ph reading and the mash is too alkaline or acidic for the profile of that kind of beer. Is this the point where...

I'm doing my first yeast starter ever, and it happens to be in a stir plate. It is the Wyeast Trappist ale yeast in a 2L 1.04 starter and has been stirring for 24 hours. I can tell the yeast has multiplied, but it is clearly still fermenting due to the amount of co2 bubbles being generated. I...

I just bought a few rhizomes (they will arrive mid April) and the only space or way I can grow the hop plants is in planters with a pole in each planter. Unfortunately, I can't hang twine to an above surface. I was thinking about using a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot for each planter and...

What is the best way to achieve a higher gravity? Especially for a 5 gallon batch? For my mash setup, a 10 gallon cooler + false bottom, with 10lbs of grain @ 1.2 quarts of water/lb for initial strike water, + mashout water + ~3 gallons batch sparge water, I usually get around 6.5 gallons of...

Hello, Not a new brewer, but new to the forums. Been brewing for ~7 years, and recently upgraded all of my equipment to do all grain brewing in the way that I want to do it. No more splitting batches between two 4 gallon pots or using too small of a cooler for mashing. Now with a 10 gallon...