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For many years I have been buying RO water to brew with but recently I've gotten tired of spending 12 on water and driving to lowes to buy it. So I purchased a carbon block water filter. After receiving it I sent a sample to ward laboratories. The report says that the ph is 7.5 but after testing...

I hope that one day I can do more answering questions than I ask questions on this forum but for now I guess I'm mostly stuck with asking questions. I've been attempting to build my own water profiles with Bru'n water software for about six batches or so using RO water. Anyhow I have a couple...

Brewing a Roggenbier tomorrow and I was wondering how to treat the water. Its basically a dunkel recipe that I am replacing the wheat for rye. Should I treat the water the same as if it were a dunkel?

Well I brewed my yearly saison a couple days ago but decided to try Wyeast 3031 saison-brett blend instead of French saison I normally use. Well a little while ago I was reading about it and didn't catch it before but I read that it was not recommended that you make a yeast starter because it...

Can anybody help me out with a water profile for a Dunkelweizen?

I'm new to treating my brewing water this will be my first time. I'm using Primo water witch I sent a sample to ward laboratory. I will be using Bruin water to calculate my additions. I will be adding 8.3g of gypsum, 2.4g of epsom salt, 1.2 of baking soda, and 2 grams of calcium chloride to my...

I need a little advice on a saison I brewed that I have in secondary. I intended on bottling after a week in secondary but I had to go out of town so it's been in sec for three weeks. Is it to late to bottle it because it is gin clear and everything has definetly dropped out. I don't want to...

I was wondering if anyone could help me with the cleaning of my beer lines with this faucet? I have a beer line cleaner pump and it will not connect to the faucet or the beer line?

Brewing a 1.080 Wookey Jack clone making a 2 liter starter will it be enough?

I'm getting ready to brew a Wookey Jack clone. It is a 60 min mash and then a step up to 155 for 10 minuets. I mash in a cooler so I have to add water to raise it. When I go to add a mash step in beersmith I add my step temp. and time but it doesn't tell me how much water to add? Any help would...

Hi Guys and Gals I recently brewed a Gumballhead clone I purchased from Adventures in Hombrewing. According to them the pre boil gravity should be 1.049 the og 1.053 and the final 1.014. using White Labs 001. I ended up with pre boil gravity of 1.048 a og of 1.061 with the correct post boil...

I brewed a old rasputin clone and it's been in the bottle for a month and it's pretty much flat :( I've got alot invested in the batch including oak cubes and about 15 oz of bourbon. and alot of time. Is there any thing I can do? Can I open the bottles and maybe use prime dose caps or something?

How do I change my mash water volume from 1.25 qt. per pound of grain to 1.5 per pound?

I'm getting ready to brew a Surly Bitter Brewer all grain kit from NB. When I go to add the grains several of them are not listed. So do I just find something similar to add or what?

I brewed my first all grain batch today Dead Ringer from NB. I would like to say that it went off without a hitch but......it didn't. Well the part I was most worried about was hitting my temps. well I used beer smith and did what it said as far as strike temps. volumes and so on. Well I added...

I'm getting ready to brew my first all grain batch and I'm a little confused about measuring water volumes. My mash in volume is 3.85 gallons, o.k. what's the best way to go about measuring out .85 of a gallon? Should I pour the 3 gallons in my pot and then convert the .85 to something other...

Alright so I'm going to be brewing a beer with a og of 1.090 so I know I need a big starter. I understand how to make a normal yeast starter but for a high gravity beer I'm still not so sure. From watching a video from Northern brewer they say for a high gravity beer you need to do a two-step...

I'm getting ready to brew a beer with an og of 1.090. Beer smith says I need 333.9 billion cells. To achieve this it says I need one yeast pack White Labs WLP001 with a starter size of 1.65 l. I know for a normal 2L starter u would use 1300 ml water to 1 cup dme? I'm confused about this and I...

If it takes 12 hours or so for a yeast starter to be ready for pitching and you use a stir plate do you let it set on the stir plate the entire time?

Old Rasputin Imperial Stout (clone) 5 gallons, extract with grains OG = 1.090 FG = 1.022 IBUs = 85-95 ABV =9% Ingredients 9.9 lbs. Coopers Light malt extract syrup 1.0 lb. Hugh Baird Carastan malt 0.5 lb. Hugh Baird Brown malt 0.5 lb. chocolate malt 1.0 lb. crystal malt (120° L) 0.25...