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Hi brewers! This year marked my 10th year of homebrewing and this forum was instrumental in those first years! Couldn't find an answer via the googles, and I'm a better biology student than a chemistry student: is beer more prone to oxidation if racked warm or cold? Example: would it be...

I can't find any technical info on how biscuit malt is produced. It doesn't seem to be a crystal malt but a "roasted malt." It's not deeply roasted, but it's always referred to as a "malted" grain. Why no diastatic power then? Any insights on what biscuit malt actually is/how it's produced?:mug:

I want to make a collaborative beer with two local homebrewers. Anyone have any ideas how to divide up the costs, materials, responsibilities, creativity etc? Just curious if anyone has any out of the box thoughts on such a simple topic, or any experience with creative/collaborative...

I recently brewed a oatmeal stout and mashed at 159. OG: 1.055, FG: 1.020. Yeast was WLP002. The beer is still carbonating in the keg so results aren't in yet. What's you hottest mash temperature? What was the resulting beer like?

If you are, please help out KG and JB to win this well deserved award from Revolver magazine for their most-awesome comeback album "Rize of the Fenix" -- an album which chronicles their comeback with every track!!! ROCK!!! Note: you can vote as many rimes as you want (refresh button). I'm...

Will it prove to be too much? I'm almost tempted to oak half of it, for the namesake alone! I know similar beers have been done before, but here's my currently-fermenting batch of blacked-out, rye-spiked, Belgian fermented IIPA: BigBeerGeek's Belgian Rye Double India Black Ale OG 1.080...

Just though I'd post my ugly duct tape/cardboard/scrap wood/clothesline milling setup on her inaugural run, milling 15 lbs of grain for a Belgian Rye Black IIPA. I like that I can be heating up strike water or preheating my tun while this baby rips through grain 30 lbs at a time, unsupervised...

My brother spent 14 hours in the county drunk tank last night. He allegedly swerved, was pulled over by highway patrol, passed his field test and proceeded to blow something high (perhaps a 0.2? He can't remember). He's guilty, he messed up big time, he could have hurt himself or the innocent...

I saw a thread tonight that was revived from 7 years ago (dealing with cider sugar additions). Anything older out there?

For good or ill, I have 15 gallons of the stuff gurgling out in the garage. First wort hopped with 1.5 oz of summit pellets. 90 minute boil, zero hops in the kettle. Flameout. Recirculated my chilled wort back on top until the kettle reached 150*F, then dumped in 6 oz summit, 3 oz...

A little info: A very good friend is getting married September 21st, 2014. Their guest list of 150 includes some 100 beer enthusiasts. Their beer menu is coming together: juicy IIPA, a big tripel, a proper wit and perhaps a fruit beer to round out the bunch. How many servings of beer should...

My mother (62) was just diagnosed with endometrial cancer. No information regarding type/stage etc. She cancelled her health insurance last month, a couple of weeks before the diagnosis. Life is a ***** sometimes. She has no assets and is now facing an expensive battle with cancer that...

The wife talked me into it. I got about 45 minutes in. Had to quit it. So awful. Teen angsty nonsense where none of the characters actions make any sense. HORRIBLE. Do not watch -- that is all. :mug: Have a nice night all. End ramble.

Hey gang, I received a free kegerator but it has no shank/elbow/faucet. I own a keezer but the world of tower draft beer is a mystery to me. I want to get this thing operational (to sell) on the cheapest possible budget. What are my options here? What do I need to buy and where is the...

Came up on a free kegerator. Single tower, single faucet (faucet stuck and he subsequently snapped it), everything else in working order. 5 lb CO2 bottle, mostly full, with a single gauge regulator. It also came with an old (full) 15.5 gallon keg of MGD and two sanke couplers. So the...

So I've been doing decoction mashouts for about 6 months. I'm quite comfortable with them. I'm aware that the often-referenced high gravity and low mash pH keep tannins from leeching. So 10 days ago I brewed a low gravity wheat beer (1.038). Mash pH of 5.2 as measured by colorplast strips...

I somehow got a slew of Belgian-style phenols and esters out of US-05. I did a double brew day, mashing an imperial red and an IPA back to back. I made a huge starter from washed US-05 and pitched it into both fermentors. The imperial red come out clean and yeast neutral, but the IPA drinks...

I'm brewing a batch of beer for a local artist's art show. He wanted to include a locally sourced ingredient. When he was a young man he worked at a fennel farm hand harvesting fennel pollen. He can get the (relatively expensive) spice for free and wants to put it in the beer. I'm imagining...

I don't have many details at the moment, but in the next day or two I should be getting my hands on 44 lbs of cascades for $5 per pound. I'm going to offload a bunch of them here as I don't have the freezer space for them. I'm not going to mark up anything, just charge enough to cover my...

Sorry, just had to gloat: bought my first sacks from my local microbrewery. $25 apiece (out the door) from my local micro! :rockin: