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Hey fellas! i just got my starter going two days ago for this yeast, and i was wondering if its normal that this yeast is so dark being straight out the white lab vial? Its very brownish, a very thin layer of white on top but 95% is really dark, is it normal or could i have had a bad vial? It...

Hey guyz, i listen to a lot of brew strong and other brewing podcast, and Jamil and Palmer keep saying that its best not to let your starter on the stir plate for more than 24 hours, since the bulk of the reproduction phase happen in the first 10-14 hours. I just bough a stir plate and i was...

Hey guyz, im new to kegging and im not quite sure about this: when do you start putting your filled/carbed keg in the fridge? Cause after 2 weeks fermenting, its done fermenting but the yeast still works on clearing out some stuff in your beer right? So for a standard pale ale your beer is ready...

Hey guys, tonight i swapped my ipa from primary to secondary so i can dry hop it and re use my yeast, its a wlp008 east coast ale yeast, it was on its second use from pure pitch, and man after one week, in an ipa of 1.070 OG, i had a clear an awesome yeast cake of like 3 inch tall, and a nice...

Hey brewers! I just bough a huge chest freezer andi wanna make a kegerator, also got a temp controller but i cant find a good guide on how to set it up? Anyone know one please? Cheers!

Do you need to boil bottled water before "clean" usage like adding it to your fermenter? Yesterday i brewed an ipa and was aiming for 1.060 OG, i ended up over boiling it, and ended up with 1.070, so i decided to add some bottled spring water, right before pitching, was that a mistake?

Hey guyz, i do my mash in a kettle with a false bottom, and when i am done sparging there is still like 2 liters of wort in there that wont go out the spigot unless i tilt my kettle, what should i do with that? Just toss is away or tilt and get it in my boil kettle? Cause it looks very...

Im wondering if just a good cleaning with like dish washing soap is enough for your pre-boil equip or should i still pbw everything? For everything that comes in contact with the wort post boil this is all pbw/rinse/starsan of course but say your boil kettle and your mash kettle, false bottom...

Hey noob brewer here with a noob question please [emoji3] When adding gypsum and etc to build your water, when do you add it? In the mash water? Boil? When its chilled and about to get pitched? In the sparge water maybe? I dont know... Im guessing it will affect the grains in the mash so... But...

Hey all new brewer here and big fan of HBT, i red and learned a lot on here thanks to you all, just not quite enough in time i guess lol... I've been jumping into brewing a bit too fast being so hyped about it all, and had quite a blast doing it too! But been acting like captain goofball tho...