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Figures the spotted lantern fly is attracted to hops. I’ve been just going out from time to time, flicking them off the leaves and bines, but wow they are fast. Been able to kill some humanely, by squashing them with my foot and fingers, might try burning them with a magnifying glass next. But...

I ordered a variety of yeasts and received last week. They were WL yeasts and the 2 ale strains were creamy normal looking color, but the WLP830 was dark brown. Is that a normal color for a lager strain? This was still new in package, unopened.

I brewed a cream ale and time got away from me and just checked the FG tonight and it’s at 1.010 and estimated was 1.011. I set my fermwrap up and set the temp to 68f, was at 55f for the past 3 weeks or so. Now that I think here, is it even worth it? I’m wondering if active fermentation has...

So I bought some variety of yeast and would like to build and use as I need it. One of them is a WLP066 London Fog. I don’t want to brew with it right away per say but would like to build it up. Is it as easy as just putting the info into a calculator and splitting the result into mason jars...

I have some gigayeast 054 that I used for a batch a while back. I harvested and washed it the best I could. Still had some trub in what I was able to harvest. It was an ok beer, but I pitched at 74*, probably should have pitched lower. It fermented in the low 70s. It is within ferm range, but...

So I bought WLP066 London Fog a while back and forgot about it. It got pushed to the back of the fridge. Anyways, I was gonna spin up a 1L starter and use it for a Northeast IPA. The born on date was April 24 2019 and best by Oct 21. When I put it in the yeast calculator it said viability was...

So I brewed a farmhouse ale, 60 and 10 minute boil hops and that’s it. Do you think I should still practice zero or minimal oxygen transfer? Usually I fill keg with star San, push out with co2 and keep keg sealed. Hook up the ball lock to out and proceed to push beer from fermenter into keg...

So I’m starting to get interested in water chemistry and it’s a little overwhelming, but I think I got the basics. I picked up some gypsum, calcium chloride, and calcium carbonate. I’m using brewers friend basic water calculator to start and adjusting from distilled water. I thought about...

So I have a canning machine. Can do 12 and 16 oz. Previously I would dip the cans in star San and invert them on a paper towel to dry for a minute or two and then proceed to fill. The lids were also dipped in star San and placed on paper towels to dry. But it had me thinking what do the big...

So I’m gonna give it a go and try a pressure xfer on my anvil fementer. The problem I’m running into is that the barb on the fermenter is 1/2”. But the Barb on the ball locks are 1/4”. So do I need a barb reducer? One of those plastic pieces that has a 1/2” barb on one side and 1/4” on the...

For those using the counterflow chiller included with the GF, how are you using them? I mean how are you hooking them up? So it comes with a blue hose for the input of cold water and the red for the output. Do you just fill a cooler of ice water and stick the end of the blue hose and red hose...

So I am going to be brewing a saison DuPont clone I saw in beer and brewing magazine. However when I put the information into a brewers friend recipe calculator, the numbers are totally different. Magazine article numbers: Og 1.065 Fg 1.012 Ibu 28 Abv 6.5 Brewers friend numbers: Og 1.072 Fg...

So I’m finally bringing my 4 tap kegerator online that I built a couple months ago. I’m working on cleaning the kegs, lines, etc.. Grumble, grumble on the AEB kegs bought new. These are a ***** to get sealed. Anyways, I filled kegs with PBW solution and ran through lines and then filled each...

After you built your keezer, did you disconnect all the liquid lines, take apart the shanks, the tail pieces, the couplers, swivel nuts, etc. and soak everything in pbw or star San and then put everything back together and then run star San through again in preparation for beer to be run through...

What do you do when the hops get too high or what if you run out of vertical space? Do you just start pruning the highest bines at the height limitation? I built a crude trellis system and the twine only goes up to about 8 feet. I have a feeling they will spiral up the twine and go well over 8...

My hops are getting to tall for my pots so I want to get them into the ground with a trellis system. I cleared out about a 10x10 area that gets about 5/6 hours of sun a day. Only problem is I put down halts crabgrass preventer on the lawn back in early April, including the area that I took up...

So I bought 2 rhizomes per variety (4 diff varieties). I initially planted both rhizomes of the same variety in the same pot right next to each other parallel to each other for a total of 4 pots worth. Is that advisable to do that? Or should a single rhizome be planted per pot or per mound if...

So I put my new Anvil 7g fermenter in my 34* fridge yesterday to cold crash. It has the S type airlock on it. Went and checked this morning and it was still exhibiting positive pressure. In fact, it was bubbling more than when I put it in the fridge. Is that strange? Fermentation temp was...

Picked up a new 8.8 chest freezer. Is it advisable to run the unit on max setting (or mid, factory setting was mid) for a day or two to let the Freon work it’s way through the system? Or do you think it’s ok to build the keezer and just start it up the first time when it’s built, knowing that...

So I bought grains and some wyeast 1318 for a brew day last week, but timing didn’t work out and now I’ve got colder temps ahead, daytime temps in mid 20’s and nights in single digits. I’ve shut off my outside faucets, so I can’t use my immersion chiller. Now I can probably heat up enough...