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Hello all, I want to make a prickly pear beer. It's my first time using this ingredient so I have some questions I wanted to run by you all. This is for a 5 gallon all grain batch. 1) What style beer would you recommend using as a base? Right now, I am thinking a SMASH pale ale with...

I couldn't a 4 gallon option. It only lets me choose between 5, 1, 3.5, and 10. Maybe because I'm using the mobile app?

I made an ESB on Sunday, and I ended up with a 4 gallon batch instead of 5. Ended up boiling for 10 extra minutes by accident (I think it will end up more like a lighter Black IPA). Anyway I ended up with 4 gallons instead of 5, which I'm sure was not all boiled off in those 10 minutes...

Does the braided hose filter well or do you add a false bottom to filter?

Hello, I am a relatively new brewer (6 brews under my belt), and I'm planning to try my first lager. I live in a crappy college house so our heating isn't great and I've been having trouble keeping my fermenters at a constant and high temp (looking into fermentation heating setups) but for...

Checked the gravity and it's actually bellow my target FG! Crisis averted

I boiled off too much. I shook it up but maybe it didn't aerate enough? Also I opened it last night and there was no kraussen at all so I think I should repitch some yeast

I did a brew on Saturday, due to some miscalculations and mismeasurements, I ended up with 3.5 gallons of post-boil wort. I pitched a full packet of rehydrated yeast in a 6.5 gallon bucket anyway. Four days later, the airlock is still pretty inactive. There is condensation on the inside, but it...

Unfortunately that is exactly the setup that has a lingering flavor of peach. Guess I'll get another

Thanks! I'll try those suggestions. Sounds like I should get a dedicated cider bucket (I guess I have one already!) I've got a Carboy, but bottling with it is always a disaster. Am I being dumb or is that just always a problem?

I made a delicious peach cider, but the flavor is very strong and now my fermentation bucket just smells like peach cider. It's a 5 gallon food grade plastic bucket from the Northern Brewer kit. I guess my first question is if the flavor will be converted into my next brew? (Thinking of a...