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Long story short, had a railcar come into work with some hard red winter wheat left in it. They just dumped it and moved on so I went back and scooped up about 150 pounds of wheat. 150 lbs of wheat would make ~30 batches of wheat beer, so my question is, what sort of interesting recipes should I...

I mashed on the grains and when I went to transfer the liquid out my spigot clogged. I'm thinking of dumping it into another bucket and straining it through my BIAB bag. My question- is oxidation bad when it is going to be distilled in the next step? Or- do I put some CO2 in my empty bucket...

I plan on brewing Ballast Point's Tripel. Recipe here-https://www.ballastpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Belgian-Tripel-All-Grain-Recipe.pdf I was then thinking of souring it with Wyeast 5526 (cherry pie flavor). I have one fermentation vessel and don't want to tie it up for as long as...

Looking to spend ~$400 and need help deciding between the two grain mills below- FWIW- My previous mill experience was with a borrowed Barley Crusher from a coworker and it definitely had the spinning, lack of grabbing grain problem, so the bar was set pretty low. The two options I am...

Long story short, went to brew a belgian quad, got distracted by a hospital visit, came back, and my wort (post sparge/pretty boil) is sour-ish. How do I rescue my recipe? It is 8 lbs of pale malt and 7 lbs of pilsner malt. Do I even add the candi syrup? Do I brew my quad as normal, and if I...

Looking to add on to my current setup, maybe try some new techniques and figured I'd ask if anyone has any of these items that they aren't using or would be willing to part ways with for a reasonable price before I go out and buy it new. Looking for- Oxygenation stone Yeast starter setup 11.5"...

Went to transfer my beer from the fermenter to the keg, doing a closed transfer out of the sample port, and it (for the second time) was clogged with yeast/trub. Any ideas or solutions out there? Is the best way to sanitize a coat hanger and poke through it from the top? I also tried cold...

Brewed a milk stout yesterday, og of 1.085 (had a pound of lactose in it). Still no bubbles 18 hours into fermentation. My question is, how long do I wait before adding a fresh packet of S05? I used a ~2 month old mason jar of S04 yeast cake from a previous batch. It had about a measuring cup...

Recently got my water tested, results are below. Had a couple thoughts after the fact that I really should have thought of before sending my water sample in. 1. Does the Bru'n water spreadsheet account for using 10 gallons of water to make 5 gallons of beer? For ex. if my sodium level is 194...

My second to last batch was an IPA and tasted great, best beer yet. (My neighbor even liked it and he is a bud light drinker. In hind sight, I think my lack of water chemistry kept the IBU's muted for him) Last batch was a double IPA and is very drinkable, but seems "ehhh". Not as bright as the...

Who has brewing books that they have bought, read, and probably wont read again? I want to learn about water chemistry, yeast, etc but would prefer to not spend the money on the books if I will read them once and not read them again. So that spurred the idea of a traveling library! Does anyone...

Ordered Bev-Seal Ultra lines for my new kegging setup. Not a whole lot that I could easily find about line length and resistance, and then what I found was a lot of people saying both 10 feet and 20 feet works for them. So in order to potentially save me 10' of line and a lot of headache from...

Been wanting to get into kegging for some time, finally shopping around and scouring the internet and I am getting really turned off by the idea of kegging (don't get me wrong, I hate washing 50 bottles every batch I make) $100 used craigslist fridge (Lowe's only marks down scratch/dent fridges...

Looking to buy a bag of base malt from my LHBS. Not sure which type to buy, a standard 2 row or a pilsner malt. After I finish drinking this recent batch and get a kegging setup I plan to try brewing the cottage house Saison recipe on here, then maybe a belgian (dark?) strong ale, and maybe a...

Current setup- 5 gal all-grain brewer with 15 gal Megapot and 10 gal mash tun. Currently fermenting in buckets with no temp control and then bottling. Love brewing, don't drink fast enough. Thinking beer on tap will help make it disappear faster. Been wanting to build a kegerator for some...

Currently 9 days into fermentation with US 05. Never used this yeast before. Brewing an all grain ~6% IPA with 2 row, Vienna, Victory, and Munich malt. Fermentation took off at 24 hours. Now the bubbles appear to have stopped getting released from the trub like a lava lamp. From the outside, the...

I just bottled my last recipe and saved the yeast from my 5 gallon bucket fermenter. So now I have 3 mason jars of London Ale III yeast sitting in my fridge just staring at me. I'm also out of base malt and need to go to Omaha to buy some more. In the meantime, I have tons of free flaked corn...

Brewed a barrel aged red ale on Saturday and this is what my fermenting bucket looks like 3 days later. No bubbles from the blow off tube or pressure on the bucket lid like usual. Recipe used 2 row, caramel, chocolate malt, wheat, corn sugar, and 1968 London ale yeast. I'm thinking it's a yeast...

This is a complete mystery to me and I am needing some of your guys help! I new-ish to brewing, brewed ~5 1-gal extract batches and 2 5-gallon all-grain batches. Been working a lot of hours, making some money, enjoying this hobby, and would like to upgrade my equipment from a turkey fryer biab...