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So, I made my priming solution of 3/4 cup corn sugar and water. After boiling, I added to bucket and racked the beer on top. I did not realize that I left the spigot open and saw that I lost about a cup or so of the mixed beer and priming solution. I did not think much about it until after I...

I am brewing a Guinness stout clone this weekend. I need it to be ready to drink mid March. This gives me just about enough time to have it brewed and bottled (bottle conditioned - I do not have keg equipment). I read that conditioning with DME will give it more of that nitrogen mouth feel with...

I want to brew and bottle a NEIPA. I have made over 30 batches of beer, but never one of these. I do not have any kegs, CO2, or taps. So, need to rely on bottle conditioning. I heard that you should add conditioning sugar to the bottle and not use a bottling bucket for them. Use 12 and 20 ounce...

I have made a few saison recipes and I like them…they have a farmhouse funk flavor profile, easy to drink and seemingly all over the place. I had a saison a few months ago in a small brewery in Florida - the brewmaster was not in that day. We I’ve in NY so cannot go back anytime soon. The saison...

I have the Northern Brewer’s Extract Dragon’s Silk Imperial Stout. It says to rack to secondary for at least three months. I am not sure why that is necessary - Not that I am going rogue, I just do not understand why pretty much everything is just about two weeks in it. I have heard that it...

I made an all-grain coffee stout with a little molasses. Used S-04 yeast. When I bottled it, I filled all the requirements for priming sugar - this is my 20th plus batch of beer. I tried a bottle after a week and there was no sign of carbonation at all. Usually, it is either ready or there is...

So, I ordered a large can of pureed blueberries instead of blackberries. I was going to add the blackberries to a Philly Weiss sour. I had made one with raspberry puree and it turned out awesome. I am not confident the blueberry will be good with it. Any ideas or thought on it - or another...

I have the Anvil Foundry 10.5. It has a 16-pound grain capacity. I have pushed it to 18 pounds, but was really pushing it. I am looking at a Scottish Ale recipe that has a 22-pound grain bill. I could make it out of LME / DME, but want to use the authentic Scottish Malts. It’s it possible to...

I have some leftover hops, 0.5 ounces each of Horizon, Saaz, and Magnum. I have a few recipe kits on hand. All-Grain (Chocolate Stout, Coffee Porter, and two Cream Ales with yeast for one of the cream ales) and Extract (Phat Tyre, Sierra Madre Pale Ale, and a Dead Ringer IPA). I am not sure I...

I have a very heavy beer that I will be bottling in a few days. It is recommended to add a little CB-1 conditioning yeast to the bottling bucket before bottling, along with he priming sugar. one of the methods of getting the CB-1 yeast working is to make a small starter of 1/4 cup DME with 3...

i have been searching through these treads and online. I am trying to find a water profile calculator where you enter your starting water chemistry, select A profile type and it tells you how much of each to add. I have tried a bunch where you insert your starting profile, desired profile, mash...

I do not have refrigeration for my fermenter. But, what I do is I fine with gelatin and put the fermenter outside for a few days. Works well in the winter. However, now that we are at a transitional period, we are getting 30-degree nights and 50-degree days. Would that flux in temperature be...

So, I ordered the Cream Ale all grain kit from Morebeer. Got lost in shipping during this past storm. Morebeer is sending out a new kit. Comes with the liquid Cream Ale yeast. Turns out, BOTH shipments are arriving tomorrow as FedEx found the missing shipment. IF the yeast is bad, I will have a...

I will be brewing this beast of an IPA in the next few weeks. The hop schedule is off the chart with hop shots, late additions, post fermentation additions and pre bottling additions of all sorts of hops. All the hops are 1-oz. Pouches. However, there are some hops that are split between boiling...

I created two beers that are flat. Both beers I had fined with gelatin. I was advised to use CBC-1 conditioning yeast when bottling those beers because the yeast used initially was a high flocculating yeast and the gelatin did a number on the remaining yeast. I have used CDC-1 on a few high...

I made the all-grain Irish Red from Northern Brewer. Today was 2 weeks from bottling day. The beer has fizz in the glass (you can see them forming and rising in the beer) but absolutely no head whatsoever. The little bubbles die off quickly and the beer is very flat. I know two weeks is the...

I am getting my all-grain La Petite Orange dubbel recipe kit this week (Wyeast 3738 Trappist High Gravity yeast). They mention adding some crushed coriander seeds and the zest of 2 oranges to make a Blanche. Anyone make this kit before with or without the optional additions? I am curious to know...

HELP!! I just brewed a Barleywine extract kit yesterday and the O.G. was at 1.14. I pitched two packs of US-05 and am a day into fermentation. It is fermenting at a decent clip and looks pretty standard to any other fermentation that I have done in the past. I added yeast nutrient into the wort...

So, I am doing my first batch of all grain beer…so damn excited! I ordered by grains crushed. Attached is what came. Are these crushed? Northern Brewer said they are not as crushed as they would like them to be, but two buddies of mine who do all grain said they should be fine. Can someone help...

So, strange question, but I have to ask. When using an immersion chiller to cool down your wort, is it more effective to have the water that is being ejected be hot or cool? I am thinking that if the water coming out of the chiller is hot, that means that it pretty much has soaked up as much...