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Hey all, Northwest Hop Farms: https://northwesthopfarms.com/ I know a bunch of people on here are from Canada and always looking to avoid the dreaded duty, exchange, and brokerage pains and looking for sources for supplies. Discovered this business about 2 weeks ago, BC company out of...

I'm in, a fermtank would make me very happy.

Tiny back story, was given a challenge to make something utilizing the Cooper Real Ale kit 'must use what's in the can' as the only rule, decided to go just completely random and fruity, extract based, but not really sure where this would fall as a style... - Coopers Real Ale kit - 1oz Fuggles...

Hmm wonder if anyone has the recipe for "Lucky Lager" doesn't get more B.C. (or at least Island anyway) than that...

Vancouver Islander here. Getting back into brewing after a good few years. Used to do plastic pail 'Coopers' kits and then some uBrew (including a medieval ale with Clover instead of hops!) ... Did my first 3 Gallon all grain batch a couple months ago on new gear (really like the Anvil kettle...

I have tried single vessel, BIAB, ferment in kettle with my last brew, it worked, wasn't ideal though (as long as you can keep the bugs out of the brew you should be ok, I have an Anvil kettle and while waiting for the seal kit I just duct taped my lid edges and put airlock in the lid). You...

Induction should theoretically be able to get an iron/steel core pot hotter than convection coil as its more efficient, a 10G pot boiling 5G (or more if you are planning 5G finished vol) is a LOT to ask of 110v though, I doubt it would be able to give you a good boil in a reasonable time if at...

Depending on time involved, there is a potential for the unboiled wort from your specialty grains getting infected/oxidized, there's a lot of chemistry there (and some sugars in there that just about anything in your air will like to eat)... That said you could steep in a small enough container...

Welcome to the brewing hobby (soon to be obsession and then affliction). All the above is great info, for the fresh into the hobby I can offer the following. Dry Extract, liquid, prepared grains, whole grains, they all can make great beer. Extracts have value of convenience when home brewing...

I got my labels off super easy, put my clean bottles in the dishwasher with a double of detergent on the hottest cycle setting. Let it run through the first fill and rinse, like 20 mins and then stopped it and opened the door, voila labels all loose or already falling off. Gathered them all with...

I recently kitchen brewed a 3 gallon batch. My kettle just fits into the sink, stuck the pot in, filled the sink with 1 bag of ice and cold water. After 20 minutes I syphoned the water out of the sink (careful it'll be really warm) and down the drain. Then refilled the sink with cold water and...

Well everything has been stable for gravity and yeast settled out nicely, primed with white corn syrup soution, and bottled... Just about 34 bottles... Now more waiting and we'll see if this ends up beer, floor foam or bread starter. Thanks all for the info thus far!

Was thinking more along the line of combinations of the standard malt catalog and the aisle of hops available these days that surely some combinations are going to produce strongly out of norm characteristics. Much like you don't mix strongly sour with strongly bitter when cooking as your only...

So I'm building plans for my next few all grain biab adventures, and I want to stick to simple recipes, have been playing around with BeerSmith and got me wondering... Are there any "hell no" SMaSH malt + hop combinations? Not talking adding a pound of hops to a 2 gallon recipe but just simply...

Was reading about BIAB I saw one Mash setup with a coil just above the bottom of the kettle/tun, and then a bed of polished stainless ball bearings to act as both a diffusion base and spacer between the coil and their colander. Would make for a seriously heavy kettle but then using...

Thanks for the helpful info. Learning as I go, its been a few years and am now trying to look into actual process and progress of how things actually work. I'd done a Belgian table as one of my last extract kits years ago and from the vagaries of memory it seemed 'about right' pre-pitch, just...

Presently 3 gallons of failure of first all grain attempt. 627 total gallons

So, The graduated cylinder in hand I pulled a sample from the bottom of my fermenter, 1008, no 'is it touching the bottom' nonsense. So I've burned up ~30 points of OG, in 3 days? Took a taste of the sample its almost beer, but really weak, still has a live yeast flavour and there's yeast...

OG on my hand me down bobber was ~1038 (3.5G vol) (was testing in my kettle that liquid level post boil was JUST deeper than the reading point so pretty sure that's off and it was balancing on the bottom, seems I lost my graduated cylinder but Amazon has another on the way), Preboil was ~1020...