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Not sure if this is right pace for this. I apologize if not. I know Cadillac Straits exchange bottles but I have two brand new shiny ones so I would prefer to fill them up. Since AHB closed last year I have no place. Anyone knows where I can take a 5lbs bottle for quick CO2 fill up around...

Got a Saison that go stuck at 1.030 with Wyst-3724. I did a new starter of Wyst-3711 and poured it in. Should it create a new high krausen again? It started bubbling faster but not like a regular one from start and no krausen.

This is about the 5th starter I have made. For all I use the Propper started cans and let them run 24hrs. After that time they look milky with no discernible big pieces or anything. All worked great. On this one for WLP-005 after 24hrs it looks all grainy and like not mixed/good. It is best to...

I need to temporarily add a gas line (brewed too many beers). I have this valve remnant of a CO2 regulator that I'm pretty sure will fit. But is it ok to remove that plug to add it there? Or does that capped end has some other purpose on the manifold? Tks

I brewed this Vienna Lager which fermented fine to FG and about 5 points before I raised the temp to 65-67F for proper Drest. Left is there one week. When I kegged it the beer tasted fine and nothing funny. But about 3 days later I took a small sample (is carbed and on tap lagering) and for the...

I want to make my fist starter to use in a Lager (Pilsner) with WLP830. I will cool the wort to about 48°F for pitching which I can easily and quickly do these days with my plate chiller here in Michigan. My doubt is about the temperature of the starter itself when pitching. If I do the starter...

So how much of the final beer taste is imparted by the yeast used? I have always had this doubt. I have brewed 66 beers and 50% of them use US-05. I really like how it works and the convenience but I wonder if I'm missing something big by not trying other substitutes in some recipes. And yes...

I have done lots of all grain brews but all with 2-row, Maris Otter, and Munich as base malt. I'm brewing this simple recipe using Pilsner for the 1st time. My equipment is a Mash & Boil (+/- 75% eff) and I use RO water and Brun Water to calculate salts. I heard about boiling for 90 minutes. Is...

I have done 50 brews in last 1 1/2 year and most brew instructions show a table of hops additions at boil 60 and 5. 60min for bittering and 5min for aroma. I assumed that the aroma hops are added at the boil at the last 5 minutes (most cases). Is this correct? Reason I ask is that using...

Got this Pacifico clone with 6.75lbs 2-row, 1lb flake maze and 1lb rice syrup. LHBS forgot to give me the rice syrup :-( Brewing now. I have white confection sugar and white sugar. Can I use that instead? Thanks.

My crushed gap was a little off and went to adjust it to 0.043. Usually I use 0.048 o my Mash & Boil. When I crushed it the grain looked a little too mush. When I started to recirculate it started to have problems. Anyway, the mash went ok and sparge was slower but got the volume and pre-boil...

After my first year of home brewing I finished with about 1440 12oz bottles or 135 gallons brewed. I learned a lot and I think I can contribute more to this forum. Thanks a lot to all in this beginners forum who helped me when I got stuck. All my 28 brews came out good to excellent which shows...

I heard grain crush significantly affect efficiency. I have done 6 all grain brews (of 24 total) in a Mash & Boil. First and third were so so. Second was bad (low mash temp & stuck). But this month I did three. All three were off in OG with the first one way off. My LHBS crush them for me. I...

Googled it a lot but couldn't find a clear definition. Do I put it as a base malt? Roasted? Crystal? Or not at all? Recipe is this one: https://www.homebrewing.org/assets/images/Recipe_Instructions_2019/ag99-2959.pdf I'm puting Honey malt as base also. Tks

Yesterday I brew an extract kit that used Cocoa Nibs addition at last 5 minutes of the boil. I didn't know they float (thought they would melt) and at the end, I used a strainer to pick most of them before transferring to carboy to avoid clogging my plate chiller. So my question is if the Cocoa...

Hi. I brewed this pumpkin latte 10 days ago with all grain recipe. OG was supposed to be 1.062 but with my process not being too efficient yet I got 1.49. FG was supposed to be 1.016. When I got the pack of WLP002 it didn't look as good as others I have used from them. Looked kind of dark and...

Hi. Always wondered if using a hop basket had any bad effect on taste or other thing. I like mine a lot because after cleaning the plate chiller is a breeze. Just checking. Thanks.

I brew this coffee porter beer two months ago which came out as one of my bests (15 brews). I added coffee to it (glass carboy) at about 10 days (stayed there until end), then put to cold crash (carboy in freezer) for about 5 days and then kegged/force carbed in one day. Total time 27 days. So...

This is a Dunkelweizen extract kit at 8th day fermentation. This is my 13th brew so yeah I'm wary of that number :-D My Tilt is reading 1.000 but historically it measures an avg of 3.5 points lower so this beer could be around 1.004. I brew a wheat Blue Moon that also went very low on FG. All I...

I have a Mash & Boil and have done 8 successful extract brews. Want to do my first all grain by brewing an amber or brown ale. I'm the kind that try to research as much as I can beforehand to avoid mistakes. The water thing has me a little afraid. On my latest extract brews I have used 1/2 RO...