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I've got a couple mason jars of oak cubes sitting in bourbon that are like 2 years old. I am moving soon. Any reason I should save these. If I want to make a bourbon stout in the future (which of course I will), is a 2 year old bourbon oak cube any better than a 2 month old cube?

I brewed an IPA with Hornindal. OG 1.074. Expected FG 1.015. Added 2 teaspoons of White Labs yeast nutrient to boil. Splashed and shook vigorously to oxygenate. Pitched yeast at 86F, put in fermenter bag with some hot water bottles and let it ride. I added dry hops on day 4. I planned to...

I'm switching to iodophor to try and get rid of an infection that star san doesn't seem to work on. Can't seem to find a consensus on whether to go with 12.5 or 25 ppm. Is it better to use the stronger concentration to be sure it's effective? Is it still okay to use as a no rinse at 25 ppm? Any...

Has anyone tried co-pitching these two, or any other combination of NEIPA strains? I'm curious to try it...

Hi all, I recently brewed this NEIPA We Like Space Hazy DIPA - All Grain Beer Brewing Kit (5 Gallons) | MoreBeer I soft crashed to 58F post fermentation and added the 9 oz dry hop (loose in fermenter). I left it at 58F for ~24 hours then cold crashed to 38F for an additional ~40 hours, then...

I'm gonna brew a more beer kit with a 10 gallon cooler mash tun and turkey fryer set up. Its a 15 pound grain bill. With my normal numbers (brewfather), this would give me 6.75 gallons mash water and 1.5 gallon sparge water. This is with ~1.75 quarts per gallon mash. Anyway, 1.5 gallons is not...

I've been brewing since 2012. I've done 100+ batches and I'm very happy with the beers I make. For years I never had any infection issues. Then a few months ago I brewed an ESB. Fermentation went great, hit proper FG, and the beer tasted perfect on bottling day. I bottled it and within a couple...

Been brewing for years but had a string of infections lately that have me on edge. I've got a hefeweizen fermenting with WLP300 in a PET carboy with a Tilt hydrometer. It's on day 10 and still churning inside the fermenter and the Tilt is telling me 1.008, 4 points lower than expected FG. Not a...

Yesterday I brewed a 6-gallon batch of 1.051 OG hefeweizen. Added White Labs yeast nutrient during boil and aerated vigorously. No time for a starter, so I pitched two packs of WLP300. Jamil and others suggest starting fermentation at 62F. I cooled to 64 and pitched the yeast, and then put my 7...

After years of brewing, I've got my first fully infected batch. What a buzzkill. Its a 6 gallon batch of ESB I was really excited about. I bottled it two weeks ago and the hydrometer sample at the time tasted excellent. However, I've discovered every bottle has floating particles and a neck...

I'm brewing an ESB tomorrow and was hoping to use victory malt, but I can't get any. I can't get biscuit malt either. What I can get are amber, special roast, melanoidin, aromatic, caravienne, and crystal 30. Which of these would you use in a pinch? Thanks!!!

I recently stumbled across this tool for comparing hops. Find Similar Hops - Beer Maverick It suggested that Trident (a new blend) is very similar to Citra. They've also got a tool where you can see how 3 hop varieties compare in flavor/aroma profile. I thought that tool could also be used to...

I've started harvesting yeast from cans of my favorite NEIPAs. I'm trying to make a beer similar to this one and I'm using the yeast harvested from this beer. https://www.2crowsbrewing.com/shop/bedlam-bridge No idea what it is but I guessed London ale iii or similar. To harvest the yeast I made...

Even with a hop spider and grain bag around my malt pipe, I'm getting too much debris through my Brewzilla pump. I was thinking about cutting a small piece of a nylon hop bag and clamping it over the pump inlet bolt with a stainless steel hose clamp to make a filter. I tested it with a whole hop...

I've had great success bottling NEIPA by bottling directly from a spigot on my primary fermenter, and by adding 0.5 - 1 tsp ascorbic acid to the priming sugar. What I've been doing is mixing up a set volume of water/sugar solution and injecting a small amount into each bottle prior to filling...

I bottle my beer. I've never done a cold crash, but would like to try cold crashing an IPA I've got fermenting. I use Northern Brewer priming sugar calculator, which determines sugar quantity based on the current beer temperature (by calculating CO2 already dissolved in the beer). If I cold...

By happy accident I've got 8 oz of Vic Secret, 4 oz of Samba, and 4 oz of Trident hops for a single 5 gallon batch. I'm planning to make a ~6% abv NEIPA and right now I want to use the whole pound of hops. The people I am going to brew and consume the beer with are not IPA fans, so needs to be...

I'm living in Canada and heading to the states for 5 weeks around Christmas. When I return I have a mandatory 14 day in house quarantine for covid. I want to brew right away when I get back so I was thinking of getting all the ingredients before I leave and storing them. I want to make a session...

I recently experimented with making a NEIPA using cheap hop varieties. I used varieties that are often used in NEIPAs and are referred to as fruity or tropical. I did a whirlpool with 1 oz each of mosaic, centennial, falconers flight (I believe 7 C's variety), and cascade. I dry hopped on day 4...

I recently brewed a Bourbon County clone recipe modified from: https://homebrewsupply.com/content/HBS%20All%20Grain%20Recipes/AG_INS_BourbonCountyStoutClone.pdf With my current set up, I can only handle an 8-gallon mash, so I used about 18 lbs of grain, 1 lb of table sugar, and 8 lbs of liquid...