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Intuitively seems like it shouldn't be done, but I have a chocolate stout that I need to bottle, but want to make an APA or IPA. I typically harvest/clean my yeast, but feeling lazy and just want to pitch on the cake. Will the chocolate stout yeast impart undesirable flavors on a lighter...

On my last brew, I was planning on double batch sparging. I pulled 3.5 gals out on the first runnings, was targetting 7 gals pre-boil. Double batch sparge was then 3.5gal/2 sparges, so 1.75 gallons each. But that would have left me with a bunch of grain high and dry in the mash tun. Something...

Anybody in Portland OR getting growth out of their hops? This rain is killing me. Got about 3' on a Zeus, but my Willamette and Magnum are only about 12" or so, which seems way behind from what I saw last year (all plants are 2nd years). Just curious if anyone else in NW is having better success...

Maybe I'm sweating the minutia here, but when splitting a 10 gal batch into 2 carboys does it matter if carboy 1 gets the bottom half of the kettle and carboy 2 gets the top half? After the boil everything is well mixed, but would one carboy tend to get more trub than the other - does it even...

I have the following hops on hand looking to get an all grain recipe together - 1 oz Golding 2 oz Cascade 4 oz Willamette also have some harvested Wyeast 1056 that I want to use. looking for grain suggestions and what the hop addition schedule should look like.

About 3 weeks ago I took my first shot at yeast washing and was pretty careful to follow all the standard protocals I found throughout these threads; boiled my water and mason jars, cooled the water overnight, washed twice, kept the jars covered while they settled, and ended up with what looked...