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I'm new at cider making, made ciders from regular apple juice before, been making beer for a while but now I'm going to be using a concentrate for bsg. my question is what do I have to do with water? can I just use water straight from the tap? filtered water? boil the water? or do I need to...

Here is our towns water profile that I sent away to wards. Plugged it into brew n water and wanting to make a lighter wheat beer with it. Need to lower calcium magnesium sodium. Need to raise sufate a bit and chloride. And need to lower bicarbonate by alot. Thought on how to do this?? I tried...

Here is our towns water profile that I sent away to wards. Plugged it into brew n water and wanting to make a lighter wheat beer with it. Need to lower calcium magnesium sodium. Need to raise sufate a bit and chloride. And need to lower bicarbonate by alot. Thought on how to do this?? I...

Wanting to be able to add heat to my ink bird controller heat side to control fermentation temps in my deep freeze. What is the best route to go by doing this.

Thoughts on this?? Thinking about using omega tropical yeast.

Brewed an Oktoberfest earlier and kegged it. Tried it here for the first time a few days ago. Hit all my numbers perfect and fermented out perfect. (Brewed 3 batches of this at 3 different days and all turned out the same) used lager yeast and did the whole lagering process. Can't complain...

the wife made a Hyvee run and proceeded to come home without any beer...whats a guy gotta do in this situation? :) haha

First time using cacao nibs. I see people soaking them in vodka, but can I use whiskey? I'm being cheap. I don't have vodka. Will it add strange flavors?

Are plate chillers worth the investment? The reviews sure sound like they are just wanting to get everybodys elses opinion. We're using a coil right now doing BIAB and it takes forever to cool the wort down. (Just impatient I guess)

Took advantage of northern brewers BUY A FULLY LOADED MEGAPOT, GET A FREE EDELMETALL BURNER. Bought another 10 gal pot. This one had thermometer and ball valve built in. Hope it's worth it! Should have went with a 20 tho.....damn

Got our biab kit the other day. Brew night tonight! Wish us luck!

I found a recipe that was telling me to use 3lbs of honey. It wants me to put it in the last 15 minutes of the boil. Whats your thoughts on this? Does it need to be pasteurized? Ive also heard that you shouldn't boil the honey...just want to get everybodys opinion.