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Got a few leftover ingredients in the beer cupboard- want to try to make a decent session(ish) beer out of them if possible. I have: 2 oz citra .8 oz Amarillo .8 oz centennial .25 nugget 1/2 pound briess caramel 40L 1 pack of wyeast 1056 American ale I am only set up for extract...

So I just made what I thought was going to be a 1.5L starter for my upcoming Pliny brew- I have always used a ratio of 5 cups of water to 1 cup DME and had pretty close to a 1.040 starter in the past. I don't check the OG of the starter every time, but tonight I used 10 cups of water and 2...

Can I simply take 2 Liters of wort from an extract brew and pitch a new vial of yeast into it to make another starter for a brew I will be doing a couple days later? I intend to put it on a stir plate for 24hrs and cold crash/decant. I wasn't sure what the hop content/flavor profile...

So I just opened up my keezer a minute ago and when I put my head in to attach a gas line I inhaled something that smelled/tasted like battery acid. It took my breath away and nearly made me black out! I checked all my connections with soapy water and no bubbles. Any idea what this could be...

I have had a 2L starter (Wyeast 1056) in the fridge for 3 days cold crashing, and now I have been delayed in my brew day. Is it ok to leave it in the fridge for another few days? Should I decant the liquid off and put it back in?

About to brew this- I have an 8 gal brew kettle. The instructions say it is a 6 gal yield (instead of 5) due to the massive hop additions, so I am a bit confused about how to go about this as the NB recipes always assume you are doing a partial boil starting with 2.5 gallons- 1. Should I...

So I am wiring up an STC for a kegerator build, and found a nifty 2 outlet plug in with 2 USB ports to run the 2 USB fans I need all in the same outlet. I use one of these in my fermentation chamber for the same purpose but I have that one wired up to run constantly and I need these to only...

So I got 2 bottles of this stuff in the mail about 3 brews ago, and was pretty excited to use it- in my starters especially but in my boils as well. I added 2 drops to all 3 starters prior to the boil, and still had to manage the boilover pretty regularly. I added 10 drops to the 5 gal...

Started a build for a 6 corny kegerator using a 4.9 cu ft fridge I got on the cheap. I considered doing a keezer, as I am concerned about it being able to hold temp at 40 ish but I had pretty good luck with a similar build for my fermentation chamber which is about 60% larger with a smaller...

So I just made a starter for my dunkel, and just for kicks I started taking gravity readings periodically through the 15 min boil. I used 1cup of DME and 4 cups of water to start, which I have read is pretty accurate to achieve ~1.040, but when I took a refractometer reading after adding to...

So I just bottled my dry Irish stout and I used 5oz of corn sugar boiled in a cup of water for 10 min. Was reading up on carbonating and playing around with the calculator I found, and it recommended 3.5 oz instead of the 5oz the recipe called for to reach the 2.1 co2 level for the style (It's...

Just got a nifty USB fan for a stir plate I am making- it plugs directly into an iPhone USB charger at 5v. It has a potentiometer built in, but the pot doesn't turn the fan off completely and I would like to install a simple toggle switch to do so. Any advice on what type of toggle switch to...

hi all! My first post here at HBT! I just competed my first extract brew (an irish stout) and I am struggling keeping it at a consistent temp, and I LOVE building stuff so... After browsing these forums for hours and hours, I decided to embark on a new addition to my garage! Total...