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Will adding 1/2 pound of Belgian Candy Sugar to a 5 gallon batch towards the end of primary fermentation take the finishing gravity lower than without the addition? It is the Saison I Ale (WLP565) yeast.

I forgot to purge my boil kettle valve and it spit a nasty plug into my carboy. I got the plug out but..... Is there any chance this whole batch is not ruined?

After listening to the session from last Sunday I'm interested in trying a Saison (my first) with the sour mash tech. talked about. I'm contemplating a basic saison recipe, mashing in at about 148-150, doing a no sparge mash, and leaving the whole mash overnight in the tun. My tun is a 15...

I brewed this recipe and pitched a very health 2 liter starter. It had a robust fermentation but shut down hard at 1.025. Should I pitch some simple sugar to fire up the yeast again and try to drop it a few more points? UPDATE: After agitating the carboy and drawing a 2nd reading the...

I noticed as the fermentation approached complete there was a layer on top that seemed somewhat solid. I cold crashed and it dropped out but when I racked to kegs tonight I could see in the fermenter that the plug dropped as a unit. I've never seen this before and the beer attenuated to 1.005...

I want to add cracked coffee beans to the fermentation post high krausen but am worried about contamination.... suggestions?

I brewed a 10 gallon batch which I put into two 6.5 gallon carboys. After 7 days I racked one carboy into a 5 gallon secondary which was nearly full leaving only a small bit of head space. Fermentation was slow by then but still active. 3 days later I dryhopped both carboys. the 6.5...

My latest 10 gallon (in 2 carboys) batch was fermenting nicely in a large cooler with water to act as a temp buffer. It was brewed on Wednesday and I pitched 1000ml of good starter into each carboy. The fermentation took of nicely but the temp began to ramp up from 68 yesterday as it was about...

I brewed an American Brown Ale a few weeks ago that I really liked and decided it should be my first ever entry into the AHA competition just to see what the judges would say. However, I don't have a beer gun or other counter pressure filler so I've been letting the time slip by. Last night I...

After 10 years I finally made the leap. I converted a 15 gallon rolling cooler, with a center drain using a 3/8 ball valve and a stainless, braided sleeve. I decided to start with the Moose Drool clone from the Jamil show and set up Beer Smith to do a 10 gallon batch. My grain bill totaled...

I've recently converted a Stainless Keg to a Keggle. I had a stainless nipple welded in for the ball valve and want to install a stainless washer hose for a filter inside the boil area. Can I use a brass coupler to join the 2 components? I hear not to use different metals together but don't...

All the search results for tuff-tanks are a couple of years old. Anyone using one of these? Seems pretty affordable and convenient.... Wine Making Supplies :: EC Kraus

After 10 years of brewing 6-8 batches a year, the bug has re-bit me. I want bigger batches to show for my time though. There is a used HERMS fashioned out of kegs for sale locally for $700. But I own a keg and could cut the top off and convert it to a nice kettle for larger scale extract...

I've been brewing for years and never had this. It is a standard pale moved to the secondary after 7 days and dry hopped. It looks ok, the krausen is almost oily on top and it smells great. but 4 weeks and still going...?