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Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can help me diagnose what's going on. The last couple batches I have made have had the same issue. Some of the bottles beers taste king of mediciney, or a little like rubbing alcohol. I would say it is definitely an off flavor and I think it's phenols based on...

Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can help me diagnose what's going on. The last couple batches I have made have had the same issue. Some of the bottles beers taste king of mediciney, or a little like rubbing alcohol. I would say it is definitely an off flavor but it is not undrinkable. I have...

Just did my first decoction today. Beer is going to be great and talk about high efficiency! But I did have some hiccups. I brewed an alt and had 9.5 pounds of grain. My mash thickness was 1.68/1. I followed kaiser's formulas from his excellent decoction video exactly and did an enhanced double...

I want to know what makes more cells, making several small starters, or creating one large one. I want to pitch about 1-1.5 liters for my next beer. say i make 750 ML starters and use 250 ML as my yeast source for the next starter. so in 3 days of creating starters, i have 1.5 liters of...

Just made a stir plate. Going to start making real starters now. I've always made 2cup dme starters in a growler and let them sit for about 24 hours. Agitating whenever I remember to. Now on a stir plate How long do you let yours go?

I just made myself a stir plate. I have a batch of wheat beer going right now. I drink a lot of wheat beer. so i reuse this yeast whenever possible. Up until now, I have been using the yeast cake after i take it out of primary to recycle yeast, but since i have a stir plate now, i was...

I brewed Ed Wort's Rye IPA 10 days ago and his recipe says to ferment 10 days, cold crash 3, and keg. I am a bottler, and i wanted to know when i can bottle. I havent seen my aerator pop in a couple days so I measured this evening. I am at 1016 (Ed's recipe has a FG of 1010) I started pretty...

I made an ipa yesterday and need to make a hef on Wednesday. I have a nice big krausen on the ipa and I use the same type of yeast on both beers. (S-05). Can I skim off some of the krausen to start the hef? I want to save money and don't have any harvested yeast right now. If I can skim, how...

Hey everyone. I've been brewing for just under a year now and I want to assemble recipes that I "just always have on hand". And the. I can always do the fun experimental stuff whenever I want. I just want to have a couple house beers. I brew allgrain all the time I have a wheat so far because...

I saw a thread yesterday about a guy who was out of a particular grain at his lhbs and was asking for alternatives. Everyone who recommended pils was careful to say that if using pils he needed to boil for 90 mins. He was looking to make a stout with it if that matters. But why 90 mins?

I've made a few more than several batches now and it seems like I have a problem with under attenuation. Most of my beers finish at a FG of 1.009 to 1.012. I even had a kolsch finish (like finish finish after 2 weeks) in primary at 1.022. I let it sit in secondary for another 3 weeks and it did...

So I wanna do a smash ipa ( sorta) I am thinking between 12 and 15 pounds of base malt Also thinking of cheating and putting about 8oz of carapils in there for head retention Hops are going to be Amarillo. I have never used Amarillo but every time I am at a brewery and I can get the brewer to...

Got a first ever batch in the basement right now. It's a hef. Recipe is 1lb wheat steeped for an hour. 3 lbs lme wheat. And enough water to make 2.5 gals. Hops too but doubt its important to my question. Yeast was little more than half a vial of wlp001. I made it on Sunday past week. Pitched...