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Hi guys, I recently lost my stopper and been looking for a new one. Several minutes into my search for buying a new one, I am startled with three kinds of different stoppers that are available. They are rubber, silicone and cellulose stoppers. Is there any difference between them in oxygen...

Hi everyone, I have a pale malt and wanted to roast some of it to have amber malt and copper malt. I set the oven to 350 fahrenheit and closed the door and opened the heater. Before the oven could reach 350 degrees, the malt started popping like popcorn. So a lot of questions appeared. 1) I...

Hi guys, I want to harvest yeast from a commercial beer that is unfiltered however I have a question. Is it possible to harvest yeast from a commercial beer without making a liquid yeast starter with wort. Can't I just do a starter for the harvested yeast as I would to a dry yeast? I don't have...

So I have re-hydrated 2 packets of dry yeast. I have put 1 cup of boiled water at 35 degrees Celsius into a sanitized jar and added the yeast. Covered it with film and after 15 minutes added 1 tablespoon of sugar that was boiled in a small amount of water. After 30 minutes there is foaming...

Hi guys, I have done an all grain blonde ale batch that turned out to be less than I thought. The wort is approximately 3 liters and I had put it into a 5 liter fermenter bucket. It has now been 36 hours and no bubbling or what so ever can be seen in the airlock. Does this mean that my yeast is...

Hi guys, I have freshly gathered hops from a farm nearby, a packet of hops which is used to make some kind of hops tea and the last one being dried hops. The pictures below are respectively arranged to give you a better idea what I'm talking about. My question is that can I use all of them, not...

Hi guys, I have a kilogram of malt and I am going to do an all-grain brewing but I couldn't find information about water quantities for mashing and boiling. What is the recommended amount of water per kg/pound of malt when mashing? And also, what is the recommended amount of water to add before...

Hi everyone, I have some dried hops available, so I curiously wonder if there is a difference between dried and fresh hops addition to the wort in the aspect of AAUs and bitterness.

Hi guys, I am trying to brew my first all grain batch and was looking for recipes with only pale malt but couldn't find any. If you know one, please tell me so that I can start brewing. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I am going to buy a hydrometer however a question presented itself when doing research. What is the suggested range of the hydrometer when brewing beer? There are hydrometers with range of 0.800-0.900, 0.900-1.000, 1.000-1.100 and so on. Which one of these should I buy?

Hi guys, I have been making my own malt at home, but only one kind: base 2 row malt. I was just wondering how to make different kinds of malt like Vienna, Munich, Pilsner, Black Patent, crystal etc. If anyone knows the procedure for making these malts I would appreciate the help.

Hi, I am gathering up items for my first all-grain brew and a question stuck to my mind. Why are there lots of kinds of ale yeast available in the market? Isn't this yeast called "Saccharomyces cerevisiae", a single kind of organism. What I am not understanding is what is difference between...

Hi, I am a beginner at the learning stage of brewing. I bought a kg of barley a few week ago and malted it at home. I splitted 1 kg of barley into 10 groups and treated each group differently at some stage of the malting process. My question is, which procedure to follow with the malted...