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Ok so, I am sitting here at my desk at work and I all of a sudden got the urge to brew today but i don't have really any worthy ingredients at the moment... I have like 5 pounds of random DME.. 3lb extra light, 1lb dark, and 1lb wheat.. and a couple OZ of hops just laying around doing...

Ok so my cider that I have cold crashing currently has a funky smell to it.. Similar to the rhino farts people talk about.. My question is this.. Will the funk go away as the yeast falls out? Thanks.

I have a hard apple cider currently cold crashing. I was wondering if it would be ok to add a couple cans of apple concentrate to help bring back some of the apple flavor? Thanks.

Ok so I am brewing a hard apple cider. It has been going well for the last 3 days. Last night I opened it to take a gravity reading just to make sure I wasn't approaching the point where I want to stop the fermentation. On tuesday the fermentation was going very strong and this morning the...

So last night I got the hankerin for some hard cider. I plan on starting a batch when i get home from work tonight. My question is this... Would it be ok to use Safeale US-05? It is all I have on hand at the moment. I have never used an ale yeast for a cider. Any insight is much...

Ok so I started a batch of hard lemonade about 5 days ago. I haven't seen any real fermentation activity, and my hydrometer broke, so I haven't been able to take a reading. The recipe is as follows. 10 cans of frozen lemonade concentrate 5lbs sugar Montrachet Wine yeast...

Hey whats up? So I bottled my AHS Texas ale on Saturday, and I am going to test a bottle at the one week mark. I bottled some in PET bottles to keep track of carbonation, and three days after bottling, they are rock hard. If the brew has a good head on it at one week, Would it be wise to...

When using Irish moss, are there any other steps to take to make your beer clear?

So I go to take an SG reading this morning on my currently fermenting batch of Texas Blonde Ale from AHS only to find my hydrometer broken in the sink. the only person who possibly could have broken it was SWMBO... This is the 2nd hydrometer she has broken. But of course she denies...

What is the best way to get the odor from the previous batch out of bottles?

I brewed an AHS Warsteiner clone kit a week ago. After a failed attempt to keep the temperature within lager range due to lack of space and ice , I decided to just give up and let it ferment at room temp. Yesterday I opened it up to take a hydro reading and it smelled just like the real...

What would be the result of fermenting a lager at room temp... say around 70F?

So, every couple of hours, I have to replace water in my airlock. it keeps being sucked up into the little plastic hat thing. I haven't seen this happen with either of my other two batches. Does anyone know why this is happening? It is hard to see, but the water was at the fill line...

I have a vial of White Labs Pilsner Lager yeast WLP800 that I am going to be using in my next batch. I have had the vial for about 3 weeks, but the first week i forgot about it and it sat at room temp (about 70 degrees) for about 5 or 6 days before i put it in the fridge.. Do you think...

How necessary is a starter when using liquid yeast?

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to starsan that they have personal experience with?

Could anyone recommend a good dry and a good liquid yeast for a warsteiner clone?

I yesterday was the first time I had given any of my homebrew away. I gave a gallon to my brother last night. Today he is begging me for more!! Thanks for all the advice that helped me brew a good batch!

For my next batch (AHS Warsteiner Clone) I have a vial of liquid yeast, My question is, Should I refrigerate it? It has been sitting at about 65 degrees for a few days..

Do I just throw them in or do I use a bag to boil them in? If so, what kind of bag?