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Hey! i'm going to be brewing 10gal of Helles and 10gal of Schwarzbier soon. Technically i would need 8 packs of dry yeast to ferment this all out (2pks/5gal carboy). Does anyone have experience with doing something along the lines of; pitch 1 pack, into a 2.5gal 1.040 beer as a giant...

i've recently started kegging and would really like to be able to fill growlers. I seem to be having a hard time tracking down growler caps at a decent price in Canada, but luckily had a local brewery give me a couple dozen to get me started. I've filled a few, and i've noticed after taking...

so i've found a few older threads about the infamous Uinta Dubhe IBIPA, but not many responses to them, so i figured i'd try a new thread... http://blog.eckraus.com/uinta-dubhe-imperial-black-ipa-clone-beer-recipe I brewed this a few weeks ago, tastes/smells great, my problem with this...

Fairly new to sours (i've done 2) and have only used bottle dregs from sours from a local brewery - problem is so far, they pretty much taste the exact same, and looking to go with a commercial WLP?wyeast pitch for my next sour. What i'm wondering and what i wasnt able to find much info...

so here's my dilemma... a buddy and i are going to be brewing 2 larger beers in a few weeks (a 5gal Quad and a 5gal Imperial BIPA) that are both going to require large starters. i only have 1 5L flask and 1 stirplate. Can i make one of the starters like 7-8 days in advance, transfer to...

I have a blonde sour that I'd really like to add nectarines to. It's already been in a secondary for a yr, and I'd love to get it into bottles. The problem is that nectarines are still 4+ months away! Has anyone had any luck using store bought frozen fruit for their fruit sours?? Thank you!!

hey guys! i desperately want to brew a cream ale this weekend, but my LHBS doesnt have any wlp080 :( Has anyone tried mixing an ale and a lager yeast - say a S05 and an S23 - to achieve a hybrid yeast/fermentation that cream ale's call for?? let me know your thoughts! i'm trying to...

I've got my sour first in a carboy for 7 months. It has a wonderful pellicle on it as well. I finally decided to take a sample tonight and it actually tastes great!! ...my question is....does the pellicle ever drop like s typical sacch krausen? Or just it just hang out, and you siphon off...

how long do you think you can save an un-washed sour yeast cake in the fridge, before using again? i've had one sitting for almost 6 months, just dont know if i can reuse this, or if i should pitch a new sach, and then add some fresh dregs to secondary instead. thanks!!

Ok so I'm not sure if this should be in yeast and fermentation or wild brewing.... I brewed a base blonde to make my first sour about 3 weeks ago. Around the same time, I drank a few local sours and harvested their dregs in a low gravity DME starter. I added one or two right at primary...

Good morning great HBT peeps! So we ordered some grains to make some brews tomorrow, and one of the LB grain bags got mixed up for my buddies DunkelWeizen. Recipe called for 6 lbs of Pale Wheat malt (amongst others) but received 5 lbs of wheat malt, and 1 lb of Pilsner malt(?!?). There...

hey! so i'm finally getting around to properly controlling my fermentation by building an insulated chamber. My question - that i can't seem to find much of an answer on - is if there is really a better type of insulation than others? I see most people building them with the 2" pink...

So I've never experienced fermentation issues in pretty much all my batches. I can post recipes but I don't know if they'll really be needed. I brewed 20g a few weeks back. 10g Amarillo SMaSH, 10g of black IPA. SMaSH finished at 1.070 and black IPA finished at 1.063. I checked gravity of...

hey guys, i'm at a point where i've brewed about 20+ batches and i have odds and ends of random grains stashed in the fridge, to the point i think i can make a brew decent enough without buying any ingredients. OG 1.052 IBU 24 SRM 20 7lb 2 row 12oz c60...

about 5 weeks ago, i bottled a batch of the following chocolate oatmeal porter; https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=359746. Needless to say i was very excited this week to crack one open and give it a shot. It ended up that something definitely went wrong with this batch; super...

hey! so i brewed up a pliny clone about 9-10 weeks ago. It's been bottle conditioning for 6 weeks, and i have ZIP when it comes to carbonation! It's been sitting around 70 degrees, and when i look in the bottom of the bottles, there isnt much settlement compared to previous batches (all of...

hey, So I'm at about 7-8 AG batches into my homebrew journey, and this forum continues to be a wealth of knowledge! Things are starting to come together, beers are starting to taste better, and i'm starting to make some minor changes to make things even better. This brings me to a point...

I'm currently drinking my second ever homebrew batch - an all grain brown ale. It tastes great, and I'm very happy about that - but I'm experiencing something weird when it comes to carbonation and head formation. It seems its been kind of inconsistent from bottle to bottle, whether it seems...

i know there are lots of threads on here regarding starters, but none of them from what i've read really have a solid answer, so i figured i'd try again. which starter calculator is the most legit? for example - i want to brew an IIPA. 5.25g batch, OG of 1,083. using a wyeast 1056...

Hey Guys - Fairly new to the community, and hope i posted in the right section! I have successfully brewed a few all grain kits, and looking to brew a double IPA with 2 objectives. 1 - attempt to create my own clone recipe based on a beer i like (that i cannot buy in stores) 2 - experiment...