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Might be a dumb question but...can I carbonate non-alcoholic hop water using yeast and priming sugar without the process adding any alcohol? The only sugar added to the mix would be the priming sugar

So I was thinking about building the son of a fermentation chiller which uses extruded polystyrene foam board. For chilling it uses frozen 2-liter bottles. For hearing I was thinking about using a FermoTemp fermentation heater. Would there be fire concerns with the fermotemp and the foam board...

I am looking at getting a Brix refractometer. I see northern brewer sells them for 66.00. Me being the cheap bastard I am decided to google the product name for the item northern brewer is selling: brix/specific gravity refractometer w/atc I got results in the shopping area where the are...

I am working on a chocolate oatmeal stout recipe and just wanted some feedback if anyone has any. Here is what I came up with. This is a BIAB recipe. Batch Size: 5.5 Gal. Boil Time: 60 Min Efficiency: 72% Est. OG: 1.061 Est. FG: 1.022 50.2 IBUs 7 lbs 13.4 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0...

So while conducting my mash, the temp of the water/grain mixture has been around 150-152.....if I pull the bag to the side and take a temp measurement the temps shows at 155-158.....which one is it? It doesn't make sense to me.....so which one do I pay attention to?

I just bought a 10 gal mega pot with the ball valve.....my question is how often do you take the ball valve off and clean it? Should I disassemble it every time? Or once I install it on the kettle leave it on and just run cleaning solution through it?

So I have been searching on here for awhile on this topic. I read the sticky on water treatment in the science of brewing. But I also keep seeing people say of you have good tasting water....you will make good tasting beer..... I am currently brewing extracts but I am planning on going to BIAB...

I see a lot of people saying they keep a steady temp for their fermentation by putting their fermentation bucket/carboy in a tub of water which is then heated by a fish tank heater.......my question is this....... Anyone ever try putting the heater directly into the wort? What would be bad if...

I am making a wheat beer where I will be adding sweet orange peel to it......should I use Safale s-33 which I was told has a more neutral flavor or wb-06 which will add a banana and clove flavor to it. Will the banana and orange go well together? Or should I choose one or the other?

I am sure this question has been asked before but I just can't find it. When would you want to add the extract later in the boil and what would it do for you if anything? So instead of boiling the extract for 60 min....maybe boil half for 60 and half for 30 or some other combination. I am...

I am in the bottle conditioning stage of my coffee stout. Just thought I would ask if anyone else has used cold press coffee in their beer and how much you ended up using. In my 5 gallon batch, I used 59.5 oz of cold press coffee. I have see a few posts about people using only a 1/4 cup or...

I am trying to convert a recipe from all gain to extract. I was told to use 2-row in the all grain recipe. I did put it into beersmith and it converted it to DME Wheat Bavarian and LME Liquid Pale Extract. The recipe is from a local craft brewery. Since their batches were much much larger than...

So here is the background first. I am brewing the NB John Q Adams Marblehead lager. Tjos is not a regular lager it did not need cold fermentation like other lagers. It had an OG of 1.060 and had a primary fermentation of 11 days. After that it had another reading of 1.013 and it was...

This will be my second 5 gallon batch. I am brewing the John Q Adams Marblehead Lager this time from northern brewer. I picked this because they said you do not need to cold ferment this beer even though it says its a lager. Anyway, when I purchased this kit I was unable to get the liquid...