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Is there any problem with plastic carboys? I just broke my glass one and want to replace with plastic so this won't happen again. Using for secondary fermentation.

Brewing a pale ale all grain today. When transferring my mash to the spaarge bucket I spilled about one third of my grain mash. I continued to sparge and collected about 5 gallons which is now on the boil, however my sg is low about 1040. Can I add regular table sugar to the boil or what...

I recently had some Salty Dog Blueberry beer. Does anyone have a clone or good blueberry recipe?

I am plannning on trying to pitch my next batch directly on the old stout yeast cake for a porter beer. How should I do it? Do I need to clean the krausen from the old fermentation? Do I stir the wort vigorously? Do I use a blow tube?

I brewed a pumkin porter and forced kegged after one month in fermenter. Brew is extremely cloudly. Would gelatin help. Can I add it directly to keg or should I move beer to secondary then add gelatin and set in secondary for how many days? Help

I just made my first yeast starter for a Belgian wit White Labs yeast. I do not know what to expect as regards activity since this is my first attempt. I was getting slow activity after about 12 hours and the activity has increased but is still slower than normal fermentation in the bucket. I...

Does anyone have a clone recipe for new belgium's mothership wit beer?

I just kegged my first attempt at pumkin beer in all grain format. It has little spice taste, in fact does not have much beer taste at all. I did not get good sg at final. Any ideas what went wrong and can I do any thing to salvage it.

Does anyone have a good coffee beer recipe? I would like all grain recipe. Also is there any company offering a good extract recipe? Thanks

I just brewed my first pumkin ale. Forced kegged it last night. Beer taste ok but little to no spice flavor. Is there anything I can do now. Can I let off the co2 and add spices to the keg? Help

Does anyone have a clone recipe for New Belgium MothershipWit?

I am going to try my first pumpkin beer. I have a couple of questions. Should I use fresh pumpkin or will canned work just as well? When should the pumpkin be added--during mash or boil( and how long) Thanks

I recently brewed an all grain hefeweizen and noticed little fermentation action, about one day in all. I left in primary for a month and bottled this week. Final sg was 1017. There was very little yeast cake and krausen in the fermenter. Color was dark, very cloudy and not very tasty. Did I get...

Did my second all grain, a hefe beer. I got good fermentation for about 18 hours after brewing but since then no noticable acitivity. I used liquid yeast that was close to use by date. What should I do if anything?

I have tried pitching on old yeast cake for the first time today and I am getting real good action. I am using a blow off tube in a bucket. How long should I leave the blow off tube in before switching to a lid valve?

I am new to all grain. I have brewed a raspberry blond from extract that my wife really likes. Does anyone have a all grain recipe for a similar type of beer. Need to keep the wife supporting the hobby.

I started to bottle my first all grain batch today, a fat tire clone. When I opened athe fermenter that was a moldy appearing skim on top. I am afraid to keg. Is this mold or bacteria. the beer is clourdy. It fermented for one month. Help

Question--If you are pitching on yeast cake what about sanitizing issues. How do you clean the krausen from the fermenter before pitching. Are there other sanitizing issues that I should be aware of?

This will be my first time to pitch on a yeast cake. When I add the wort should I stir the yeast cake into the new wort or just decant onto the top of it. Should I use a blow off tube? What about temp for fermentation?

Is there any benefit to making a starter when using dry yeast like Nottingham?