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Hey all. I’m a previous beer home brewer with a 10 gallon stainless steel kettle that I have laying around here. According to the website I ordered it from, northern brewer, it is made of 201 SS for the walls of the vessel and 410 SS for the bottom of the vessel. I know 304 SS and 316 SS are the...

Hey all. I’m a previous beer home brewer with a 10 gallon stainless steel kettle that I have laying around here. According to the website I ordered it from, northern brewer, it is made of 201 SS for the walls of the vessel and 410 SS for the bottom of the vessel. I know 304 SS and 316 SS are...

Hi all, As the title lends, I am thinking of transferring an IPA from my carboy straight to an empty, 'unclean', keg that just kicked last night. There was a pale ale in the keg before. Would there be any issue with this? I mean I wouldn't wanna do this every time but I'm going from a pale...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any issue with oxidation in their experience with a double dry hop addition in a ferment bucket without purging it either time with CO2. I have never had any issue with a single dry hop addition, but I was wondering about a double dry hop addition...

I will be siphoning my first sour that I added about 5 lbs of muscadine grapes to. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on siphoning off of fruit to avoid getting any debris in the keg. Also, I do not plan on cold crashing.

I am going to be bottling a relatively high OG (1.084) Russian Imperial Stout this coming weekend. I have read places where people tend to add additional yeast along with their corn sugar, or sugar of choice, at bottling time with higher OG beers. I mostly keg now and am not too familiar with...

I don't normally check the specific gravity towards the end of primary fermentation (i.e. 3 days into ferment), but this wlp002 had me nervous. I didn't pay much attention to its attenuation profile and realized its not much of an attenuator. All that said I checked the gravity with a wine...

So I brewed an ESB last Saturday, 7/30/2016. Everything went well. Hit OG of 1.054. I made a half gallon yeast starter the night before with WLP002, no stir plate, but plenty of shaking and agitation. I never really agitate or shake my actual beer that I am fermenting and always get great...

So I just pitched wlp001 into my starter and looked into the bottom of the yeast package and found that it was still full of yeast stuck to the bottom. I shook the crap out of it before I opened it in anticipation of that happening but apparently that wasn't good enough. What do I do? Did I...

While siphoning beer into my keg I accidentally splashed up to a gallon of it into the keg. The hose wasn't positioned dirictly at the bottom of the keg. Is it possible that there is going to be some oxidation that will occur?

I Brewed a beer two weeks ago and it was a brown Porter (OG 1052). I made a nice healthy half gallon starter of Wyeast 1028. It fermented out quickly; like three days. Would it be too early to keg it today?

I am writing in regards to my latest homebrew which was a typical dry stout. I am wondering if I added too much roasted barley to the recipe. I had about 67% Marris Otter, 16% Roasted Barley and 16% Flaked Oats. It fermented for 3 weeks in the low 60s and has been in the keg now for almost 2...

I know there are probably some other threads on this somewhere, but I cant find any with clear answers to what I am looking for. I am looking to get some opinion on others experience with adding hops AFTER flame out and performing a sort of extended chilling/steeping process. My main question...

I just built my keggorator. I essentially used a 5 cubic foot freezer and built a wooden collar for it. I stained the collar and let it dry for 48 hours before I put the collar on the freezer. I am still smelling the fumes from the minwax application and was wondering if anyone had...

I just built my keggorator. I essentially used a 5 cubic foot freezer and built a collar for it. I stained the collar and let it dry for 48 hours before I put the collar on the freezer. I am still smelling the fumes from the minwax application and was wondering if anyone had experienced the...

I recently had a beer in Asheville NC that had a big garlicky, oniony and danky aroma/flavor. Has anyone brewed an IPA like this? And if so what was the hop profile like? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I dry hopped my beer five days ago now with 3 ounces of pellet hops. After two days the hops began to settle off of the surface of the beer and it seemed to leave behind a whiteish oily film on top with bubbles up to a half inch in diameter that didn't go away. My question is, is it possible...

Has anyone ever tried pineapple in the primary or secondary. I was thinkin it could taste good in a blonde or cream ale, maybe even in a sweet stout or porter.

Can anyone lead me to any good resources on pitching yeast (ie books, websites, forums). I would like to educate myself more on the topic before my next brew day. I have heard you can turn out better beer if you pitch the correct amount.