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I 'Dry Beaned' a stout with coffee beans for the first time recently and think I may have overdone it. I used about 2.5 ounces of French Roast beans crushed with a rolling pin and put them in with the beer for almost a week. I then kegged and now 2.5 weeks later the coffee flavor is over...

Just filled my first keg and was hoping someone could take a look at my process and let me know if it looks alright (for the sake of my own sanity). 1. Disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled the keg (with new o-rings). 2. Pressure tested the keg and ensured a good seal. 3. Sanitized the...

With my kegging system scheduled to arrive tomorrow, there has been a questions that I have meaning to ask for awhile. I hear a lot of folks talking about throwing some hops in a tea ball and leaving them in the keg while hooked up to gas and drinking in order to maintain that beautiful hop...

I know using water that has been through a water softener is not suggested because of high sodium content, however, is it acceptable to use the softened water if it is run through an RO system after the softener. According to the water guy, the RO system will remove the sodium in the water from...

Anyone have any good starting points for water profile for a witbier. . .I will be buying RO water and building from scratch so I can match most anything, just not sure what I should be shooting for. At minimum I am guessing something balanced (perhaps leaning toward malty) and suitable for a...

I am going to be making the Witbier from BierMunchers 'Just Another BrewDay' thread. My LHBS only had about 4.5 lbs of flaked wheat on hand, I am planning on using flaked oats for the other 4.5 lbs. Anyone have any thoughts on how this will affect the outcome or if this is a bad idea...

I got a bunch of hop leafs in my auto siphon last night and while trying to get them out I accidentally pushed the little insert thing that helps start the siphon out of it. Does anyone know how to get that thing back into place it seems damn near impossible. So do I need to buy a new auto...

-Due to the my water source closing for a month and a half I went from a simple addition of gypsum to building a water profile completely from scratch and this was my first time dabbling with water chemistry. -I Forgot to check the hose until I was ready to hook up my immersion chiller and...

I finally got around to getting my water treated and am trying to wrap my head around all the information out there. . .I have a brew day coming up on friday and actually had 2 questions. 1. I have always had an off flavor that appears in my lighter higher hopped beers (IPA's and PA's). I...

Ok . . . so indulge me here for a second. . .I have had a 'couple' of homebrews. I was just breaking down some boxes (it is trash night) and realized that I was creating quite a ruckus in the general vicinity of where my yeasties were doing some very important work (10 gallons of Belgian Dark...

So it is general practice when making a starter to continue to add oxygen throughout the fermentation through a stir plate or intermittent shaking. Now my question is when adding the starter to wort does this have the potential of introducing off flavors due to the oxygenation of the starter...

I have always used my bottling bucket to mill my grain into but have since read about not milling grain anywhere near brewing. Am I asking for trouble with this? Granted I am not doing both on the same day and my bottling bucket gets a thorough wash and sanitize after holding the grain and...

tonight was my first brew session where a lot of things went wrong (I know contradictory to the title of this thread . . .wait for it. . .) So I started out tonight's brew session last night as I gathered my ingredients, my water, and got my equipment together. While measuring out my hops I...

I'm in the middle of a brew and my burner is acting up I have the bayou classic sp10 with the 20psi regulator. . .I have never had trouble getting a boil going. Tonight my burner that normal sounds like a jet engine sounds more like an electric car. . .and it is going on 30 minutes and still...

I have a Chimay clone recipe that calls for 1.5lbs of Amber Candi Sugar. Yesterday was my shopping trip to the LHBS and for some reason I bought 1.5lbs of Amber Candi Syrup instead of the Sugare. So my questions are: 1. Can the Sugar and Syrup be used interchangeably. 2. If I can use the...

I brewed JZ's American Barleywine 4 weeks ago and just racked it to secondary tonight. It is already very good even though it is young, but it just seems like something is missing so I was trying to decide among if I should just leave it or try to add something to it closer to bottling time. ...

I am planning on brewing a barleywine this weeked (using JZ's recipe) and the recipe calls for a pound of corn sugar. I am curious at what point in the process would this be added. I am guessing it gets added to the wort at some point either at the beginning of the boil or somewhere near the...

Alright, so I am planning on doing a Barley wine in a couple weeks and have settled on using JZ's american barleywine recipe (posted below). I would really like to get a second beer (pale ale) out of this as well, but don't want to affect the main recipe if possible. I batch sparge and...

So I am planning (or well hoping you all will help me plan) my first parti gyle (hoping to pull it off the beginning of January sometime). So my reasoning here is I really want to brew a barley wine, but hate spending so much on ingredients for just one big beer (albeit a beauty of a beer) and...

I brewed an American Amber yesterday (OG around 1.054), pitched yeast (from a starter) last night around 8pm. This morning there was still no sign of fermentation so I went to work thinking well that is a bit odd, but not all that concerned. So over lunch as I was reading HBT I came across a...