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Would like to hear any recipies/stories about experiments with yeast and beer. For instance, has anyone ever mixed champagne yeast in with beer? Has anyone ever used some of the wine yeasts that ferment to 20% to make beer? Have you experimented with mixing yeasts? Have you...

So,I took a break from brewing and I turned my kegerator back into a freezer. I'm back brewing again but I really like my freezer as a freezer and I dont want to buy another one. Is there any reason I cant just use my keg setup warm?? When I want beer, I will just fill up a growler and stick...

Ok, I normally brew beer and havent brewed in a while. I assumed all of my carboys were 6.5 gallons so I took a "wine kit" I had and measured "6" gallons and marked it. I realized later when my OG was off (OG is 1.09 was supposed to be 1.06) that there must only be 5 gallons in there and I...

Ok, so I have been brewing beer for a while and I am pretty good at that process. I once traded someone some brew for some "prickly pear cactust mead" and it was the BEST stuff i've ever had, I LOVED it. This stuff, while still needed a bit of aging, was great. It had a high alcohol content...

Sorry guys, its been a while since i've done this. My recipe calls for 5.25 gallons of wort. I am doing a full biol in a turkey fryer outside with the temp being about 55 degrees. The recipe includes 7 lbs extract + 1lb light DME. I will of course boil with the lid off during the full 60...

My IPA is arriving from AHS tomorrow and I am gonig to brew the beer tomorrow and I cant wait. I have lots of good equipment and was pretty into brewing a while back. Unfortuanatly, I thought the stuff was going to arrive sooner than 2 weeks and thought i would have time to make a starter! I...

Ok, I am on the search for an answer. I've done a fair bit of searching and see a few people who have shared my experience. "Sometimes" I get a light filmy substance on top of my secondary. This is usually followed by some smoky looking bubbles that really dont dissapate and possibly, if left...

I want to make a beer with at least 10% ABV. The microbrewery near me makes one and you cant really even tell it has all that alchohol in it. Just wondering if anyone has a good recipe (extract only pls). Maybe a double IPA or something.

I would like to brew mead, but I dont want to buy all the crap, spend 6 months brewing it and find out I dont like it. Would anyone be willing to "trade" me a bottle of mead? I will trade you a $20.00 gift certificate to austin homebrew.

I brewed a Ras Wheat beer the other day from a kit from AHS. It gave me a 2 oz bottle of rasberry flavoring to add. The instructions say to add it to the bottling bucket. The problem is I keg. Soo, here are my way to tedius questions :) 1. Should I add it to the secondary right before I...

Since we always have to sanitize the autosiphon I was looking for something to easily submerse it without a bunch of water. $2.99 a wallpaper box. They are 3-4 feet long and relatively shallow, perfect for quickly sanitizing that siphon. Just thought i'd share. I dont know what they are...

ok, well i've done quite a few beers and I have yet another first. I have a milky looking film on the top of my secondary. Also, on the rim of the liquid is actually white, milky looking stuff, it kinda looks like little sheets of paper cut up into confetti. I also just happen to have a glass...

Can anyone explain this? Is it still safe to drink?!?!?

Ok, Just when I think I have a system down I find out i'm wrong..... So far this is my process for Ale's and Lagers.... Ales ========= primary for 1-2 weeks, sometimes I use a hydro, sometimes I just give it 2 weeks untill its pretty well settled. Then I secondary for another 2-3 weeks...

Ok, I have been having some problems recently. I use 1 tablet of wirlfloc in the last 15 minutes of the boil. I also put my immersion chiller in the last 15 minutes. After the boil is done I hook it up to the sink and chill it out. I usually shake the immersion chiller around to stir up...

Ok, i've done about 10 5 gallon brews and i've found the beers I like to brew and I think i've become fairly good at it. I want to venture into 10 gallon full boils and then eventually go all grain. How many BTU of a heater is required to heat a keg up with 11 gallons + extract to boiling...

Ok, its about time I asked this question. Here's my method for water. 3 gallons in brew pot 2.5 gallons in seperate boiling pot I boil the 2.5 gallons for 5 minutes and put in the freezer until i'm ready to add the wort to the carboy. When i'm adding the chilled 2.5 gallons, at...