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I won a bag of this new pilsner malt from Rahr in a competition last weekend. It looks like a more affordable alternative to their Premium Pilsner, less modified (DP 120-150), lighter in color (1.5-2.0 L). I found this webinar: MIdway through, they mention that it's closer to a continental...

I bought one of these in November with one of the black friday sales, I did a basic tap water test back then to make sure the chilling and pumping works (Oh boy, it does). Seems like a quality unit overall. But once I hooked it up for the long lager and got 8 gallons of water/glycol, I notice...

I have a lot of rhubarb in my garden. The last five years I have made some variant of Rhubarb Saison (with Rye) or a Wheat beer, including Berlinerweisse and hefeweizen. These are fine beers but I want to branch out this year and try something a bit more unusual. I was thinking perhaps an...

After doing this for a several years I've gotten a routine tri-seasonality to my "sour program" that I thought I'd share. I'm just above halfway to the North Pole (45th parallel latitude). Year Round Tasks: Sampling barrels is roughly a monthly activity. I take notes, do measurements, dump and...

I know this is beyond the scope or scale of most homebrewers, but I figured it was worth a shot to see if anyone owns their Nano setup. I know the Spike guys are pretty active on the forum, but I'd love to hear from actual owner-users! What works well? What do you love about it? What do you...

I've gotten hold of a rabid pedio strain. I'm really happy with it, it sours to 3.7 at 3 weeks and 3.30 at four weeks, even with 6-10 IBUs present in the beer. No ropiness. But it's military grade, it will keep going to 3.2 and below; it can make my starsan solution blush. So it has to be...

This was a 55L recently dumped Pinot Barrel that has about 3 beers left in its life. Finding ideal homebrew sizes in the 55L-80L-110L can be tricky but I have made friends with some local winemakers, they do smaller projects in barrels like these. This is my 7th barrel, I've had both used and...

I'm trying to piece together what is effectively a 1BBL Electric brewery. There full kits like Spike Nano, SSBT Nano, Ruby Pro 1BBL that have bottom draining 1bbl mash tuns with manways. And those setups are wicked expensive at $14-17k. I already have some equipment and am piecing my kettles...

I made a resolution this year to try corking some of my beer - mostly cork and cage. The bottles are not cheap but I started hanging onto the thick 375's that my local brewery uses, built up enough to bottle half my batches. My usual routine is keg half, bottle half in 12oz longnecks and cap...

On a TYB261 prop... It finally happened. This was a brand new sanitized ball jar, with freshly cooled DME starter. Now I'm worried about the other prop I made and pitched with this wort. After hundreds of fermentations, real mold. And if the title was confusing...

Bottling is what kept me from wanting to homebrew for years, living in an apartment. So when I finally had the space in my home to start the hobby I went straight to kegging and used a small keezer to do it. To that end, I've always done pressurized, co2 transfers of most beers including IPAs...

I took a sample of a still-active fruited mixed culture beer, went looking for my hydrometer, and forgot about it. Here's the pellicle that formed three days later, complete with dead fruit fly's final swim. The point I'm making - pellicles don't really tell you anything about the underlying...

I brew hundreds of gallons of this every year. I've tried it with just sacch, it makes a great saison. The OG: 1.046 FG: ~1.002 IBU: Optional GRIST 63% Pilsner 25% Malted Spelt (BestMalz) 8% Vienna 4% Flaked Oats Mash at 154 for 60 minutes BOIL @75 mins 10g / gallon of 3+ Year...

I've played with all kinds of hop arrangements, especially heaps of aged/lambic hops of supposedly 0% AA. I've done more generous aromatic additions of cascade, saaz, styrian golding, etc. I've had continuous-mosiac brett-primary pale ales turn out wonderful. The consistent advice of...

Just curious if anybody has used one of these yet, what fruit went on what beer, and what were the results? For context: https://www.southernhomebrew.com/breworchpure.html I've used a lot of the Vintner's Harvest - Oregon Fruit Company 49oz cans with success, I'd say in general they make a...

Per title. The only one I have pitched separately was BLB's Sour Weapon P (Pedio Pentosaceus) and there are a few other good options out there, namely damnosus strains. The backstory that led to my question - after sampling my library of bottled sour beers and some tasting notes of the last...

I have a pocket pH meter and I've always tried to take several measurements including initial / final runoff. I don't think my mash has ever risen above 5.67 pH during/after sparging because I'm generally aiming for 5.3-5.4 in the mash, but this one got me thinking last night. There are a few...

I need your help folks. TL;DR is I need to make sure my new SS Brewtech BME kettle isn't contributing terrible tinny off flavors to my wort. I've tried BKF, PBW, Oxi-clean, StarSan... I'm still getting this effect. Now for the long version! About 2 months ago I upgraded to a 20 (really 22)...

I'm new to conicals, but finally got myself a Chronical BME, and excited to have so much more control over the fermentation and exposure to oxygen. I'm thinking ahead to equipment and hop schedules, particularly for very juicy IPA dry hop additions sensitive to oxidation. How does this...

So last night I YOLO brewed a Stout with a somewhat smooth and full bodied grain bill, and added a few adjuncts I haven't used before. Looked like this: Mash Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU Volume 6 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 47.5 % 0.51 gal 1 lbs Pale...