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Had been getting lazy with cleanup post brew and after last brew I let things sit in my kettle for a bit so before next brew I gave kettle a soak with hot water and oxiclean. After mashout and sparge as kettle was filling up (I use indoor electrical 3-vessel setup), I noticed heavy soap...

I remember reading about a method to try out hops - take a pretty plain, clean beer and drop some pellets in a small cup or glass. Was curious if anyone has tried this with any success. Tried searching and there is just too much information out there to filter through and no results I could...

I've read up on some past threads where folks have been looking to minimize citrus and maximize floral in an IPA Was thinking 2-Row and bit of Honey and Crystal 20 For hops maybe bitter with Bravo, and some kind of combination of El Dorado, Palisade, and Willamette? I heard EKG was...

Can anyone help identify what may have happened with my brew? Pics below. I had this a long time ago once with a Cascade smash I made and never figured it out. That one was much more pronounced than this. Head on beer seems "chunky" or "lumpy" and never really dissipates. Some of it seems...

Works, used it a few times. Controls heat or cool - I upgraded to a unit that controls both simultaenously. $80 Cdn, and I guess shipping depends on where you are

Ive built myself one of the popular insulated plywood boxes collared around a compact freezer. But I'm having trouble finding something suitable to use with my inkbird controller for heating. I tried a couple of different electric portable heaters which heated fine but I came down the next...

Thought I'd give this a go. You can see just a subtle colour difference in photos but the bottom layer is the colour I thought yeast usually looks like and top seems like proteins or dead cells maybe ? Or is the bottom proteins and trub and top is yeast I want to keep?

My process- I make larger starters than I need and store an extra 500 ml in jars refrigerated (not sure if there is an official name for this process?) From a WLP 095 I got this layer of dark brown over the yeast. What is it? Is it dead yeast cells maybe? And can I somehow remove that...

I was building a new indoor electric setup on the cheap but it had been probably 10 months since I last brewed and first brew on new setup after finished fermenting is a bad batch. I can't tell if its fusels or wet cardboard from oxygen. there are a whole number of risks I took just to get a...

Well I searched for other threads and found plenty warning not to cut a hole too big but couldn't find any (like me) that actually did. Using a PVC box for my panel and everything else cut great on front (still waiting for parts to do outlets etc on bottom and heatsink on top). But cutting...

I've read through the past few years worth of posts regarding dryer outlets and re-utilizing them but I haven't found any discussions that directly addressed my situation... Ok, I have a 40 amp breaker servicing my dryer in my basement. I know others have asked - the dryer outlet has 4-wire...

I bought some established hop crowns and have put them in a large 18" planter each. Can I keep them in a planter for their entire "life" or is it essential to get them in the ground? Or can I keep them in a planter/container, but a specific shape or size?

Ok so today I boiled outside and it was chilly and very windy. I lost quite a bit during the 90 minutes just to boil off. After cooling and transferring to fermenting bucket I had my desired gravity at 1.070 but was about 1.5 - 2 gallons short. I started getting desperate and trying to suck...

I'm adding a second line for my homemade kegerator/fridge with a second pass through. To get gas to both kegs eventually I will buy a dual regulator to adjust gas differently between kegs. But for now I just have a Y-shaped adapter that threads into my single regulator. Problem is, I'm have...

I have two beers fermenting in buckets in my basement (one is just over a week, the other about 39 days) and furnace in my house acting up so I plugged in space heater to point at buckets and got temp at about 70 got colder at night so I turned up heat a notch and pushed heater closer but in...

First outdoor and first all-grain recipe today. Loads of fun... Had strike water at about 160 on kettle thermometer and after mixing in grains I saw it sat steady at 153 ... Put a probe electronic thermometer in and stretched the cord out and after ten minutes it was reading back up over 170...

I've searched the internet and found many opposing opinions on what I should do for my first dry-hopped IPA. I have some whole leaf cascade already wrapped in cheesecloth/muslin bag. I ferment in the plastic buckets. I used a starter for liquid yeast and was fermenting aggressively (if...

So I brewed up an extract version of Pliny the Toddler IPA. I didn't use a starter for the yeast and it was a bit slow to get going. Fermented in plastic bucket. Sat for about 20 days and I used a new turkey baster to measure the gravity 3 days apart and both came out about 1.010 A couple...

When I say idiot - I mean me, not the product, haha Everything was pretty exciting, did a partial mash IPA for my first go - round. Forgot to measure the original gravity however I thought everything would be ok. I didn't use a yeast starter, just pitched right from the tube (White...

I'll be making an extract IPA for my first go... For adding hops in the boil, there are a few to add (at 60 mins, halfway, and down to the end, etc)... As I add new hops in am I keeping the little bags of the previous hop addition so they are all mixing as I add them later or is it...