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Hi, Im growing 2 types of hops but mixed them up... One is cascade and the other is nugget. I included a picture, here are some notes: Long cone : Early to flower and develop now almost ready for harvest. smells hoppy Round cone : slower to develop, many cones still small. smells grassy...

I have 2 casses of incredibly delicious, hoppy pale ale in bottles. The bottles are over carbonated. The problem for me is that when I open a bottle, bubbles form at the bottom of the beer and big chunks of the yeast on the bottom get distributed though the beer, making it taste yeasty...

I made my first mead about a month ago. 2 pounds of honey, 16 oz of mango juice and the topped off with water in a 1gal glass growler. It warm here, mid to high 70s. Fermentation still took almost a month with ale yeast, but it fermented out very dry ( .998 ish ). I bottled it in 5 22oz bottles...

Well, what do you guys think? Looks nasty to me. White stuff looks like snow... big turd looking thing is a dry hop bag... should i bottle it anyway? will it make me sick?

Im fermenting my first partial mash IPA. brew day went really well, my conversion was around %80 and now i have a wort that is a bit bigger than I had planned for (og 1.068). My apartment is 66-68f and as fermentation is starting im concerned that the temps are going to be too high ~75. my...

hi, i did an extract IPA recently. The expected OG was 1.075, but when i measured it i showed 1.09. i figured it was just unmixed wort (because i mixed most of the lme after the boil) and pitched my yeast. Fermentation was very violent and I lots about 1/5 of my batch in the blowoff. after 5...

check out my new glass carboys, seem old, 15 buck each. the people had 10. i bought 3... are the old ones worth anything? do people collect them?

I followed the recipe to a tee, hit all my temperature and timing marks but for some unknown reason my OG was about .015 lower than i wanted. Here is the basic breakdown. 5gal batch .75 crystal 40L .75 carapils Steep 30 min 7lb amber LME hops: magnum, cascade and nugget 4oz total...

Hi Everyone, Im working on my second batch of homebrew. Here is what I started with 6lb amber LME 1lb grain cascade hops at 60, 30, 5, 0 The Og was 1.042 (should have been 1.052) I pitched the yeast too warm ~78f and the fermentation went very quickly. after 3 days there was no...

Im new to brewing and I have only just completed my second batch of home brew. Last weekend I cooked batch of pale ale wort and used a recipe that told me to aerate my wort before pitching my yeast. It also said to pitch the yeast at 68f but when i pitched it was more like 80f (I used a...