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As the title suggests, I've officially got my first infected batch - a Belgian Tripel that I was really looking forward to, unfortunately. While I don't know the exact vector, let's just say that the post-boil steps and early days of fermentation were not without their mistakes. It's...

For a variety of reasons, at least a couple of taps in my keezer are going to be empty for a while - had a whole slate of brewing planned at the beginning of the year that would keep the pipeline full, but I've been dealing with a medical issue that kept me from doing all the brewing I wanted...

Hello all! I've been brewing beer for a number of years now and have only recently begun playing with wine making through kits. I'm anticipating a small problem with my current batch and would love some thoughts. The kit is a 3-gallon Cabernet Sauvignon. In a nutshell, I suspect that my OG...

OK, I've read through a lot of information on the caveats around using refractometers once fermentation has started (material here as well as in a bunch of other places). I fairly recently began using one, and I'm experiencing something odd that I can't find an explanation for. I think I've...

This has been driving me crazy for a couple of weeks now. I had a couple of gas cylinders go empty quicker than I expected recently in my keezer - I knew the first one was partially filled to begin with so it didn't strike me as odd, but when the second went dead, I realized I had a leak...

I've been thinking of doing some experimenting with small or split batches over the winter and was wondering about using a basic extract recipe that could then be split and adjusted using a variety of different steeping grains. I believe the usual way to use steeping grains is to steep them...

So, I built a Keezer with a 3-tap DIY iron pipe tower over the pandemic, and so far I'm absolutely loving it. I've encountered one odd thing, though. I have 2 beers on tap (seltzer on the third) - one's a local craft brew in a sixtel, the other is one of my homebrews in a 2.5 gallon corny...

Hello, Fellow Home Brewers! First off, a hearty thank you to everyone who has posted on their builds in this forum - I spent a really long time lurking and browsing here to get ideas, and once I finally convinced myself to start, it went really smoothly because of all the incredible advice and...

I'm in the process of building by first keezer (with plans to post the build pics at some point soon). I'm still largely in the planning stages, which have been going on for some time, helped along by all the incredible work people on the forum have done over the years. I'm running into one...

I do small (2.5-3 gallon) batches, and I'm looking for a little more convenient way to cool my wort. Currently, I basically use an ice bath - the kettle goes from the burner into a tub filled with water and ice blocks (frozen in tupperware containers prior to brewing). It works fine, but it's...

OK - this may be a really simplistic question - when you're filling the keg, how do you know when it's "full"? I'm getting ready to keg a batch for the first time using a 2.5 gallon corny keg. I know I have a little over 3 gallons in my fermenter, so I'll have a couple of bottles to fill at...

Wasn't sure whether this is best in the fermentation, bottling, or cider forums, but I'll take a stab here first since it relates to bottle conditioning. I know some of this question depends on the health of the yeast in question, but for the sake of argument, assuming the yeast populations are...

If you want the short version of this - is it reasonable to use the grams of sugar in the frozen concentrate's nutritional info to calculate the amount of "priming sugar" you're adding to a batch for bottle conditioning? Assuming that's fine, then simply pasteurizing before it fully conditions...

I have something weird going on with one of my recent brews (at least it's weird in my 1-2 years of experience). I made a partial mash oatmeal stout (recipe below) and bottled it in mid-June. I used carbonation drops, mostly because I've got a lot of them and am trying to use them up. Haven't...

Anyone know anything about this company or it's products? It showed up in a marketplace app i have. Two main products - an automated brewing system called Beerdroid and a small scale tap/dispenser called Beerflo. I'm a small batch brewer, so the Beerflo is intriguing, but can't find anything...

I've got a Dunkelweizen fermenting now, and for the last 5-7 days it's been stalled at 1.020 when Brewer's Friend is projecting 1.013. It was one of my first partial mash attempts, and I didn't get great efficiency (OG was 1.049 vs expected of 1.054), but I figured I'd just go with a lower ABV...

So I've accumulated some odds and ends of DME and hops and such over the last year of getting into this hobby, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth just experimenting with a small batch. I don't want it to be undrinkable, but I also don't want to be flying completely blind. I put...

Relatively new brewer here. I've been wondering a bit about the process of clearing beer...not how to do it (there are plenty of resources around about that), but more why. Barring entering a beer into competition, where I'm assuming clarity is a part of the criteria, is there anything other...

Anyone know if the stubby bottles that Budweiser is packaging their new vintage beer in are twist off or pry off? Doubt I'll be a fan of the beer, but I like the bottles, and I'm thinking of getting a case for my father in law just to reuse the bottles - obviously if they're twist off, I won't...

In the event that I need to store a beer for a while before bottling, what's the safest way to do that? I tend to do smaller batches (1G primarily, stepping up to 2G soon) and don't always have time to bottle on any sort of schedule. It's obvious that once you keg something, it can be stored...