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not really a begginer but i thought this would be a good place for some advice. my last 3 batches have been infected with acetobacter.{no doubt about it straight vinegar} the only difference in my process was that i changed to a six and a half gallon carboy. can too much headspace cause an...

i have tried to brew a hefeweizen twice now and both times it has had a vinegary taste.all other brews come out all right. does the safebrew w 06 give off flavors or did i just infect two batches?

ineed some advice.i was thinking about making a kettle mash tun with a manifold and pumping the wort into my brewkettle. then use the burner under my bk and pump back into mlt so i dont have to have a burner under the mlt. i am worried about scorching the grain if the fire got too high. i was...

i was thinking about making a small mash tun out of a lunch box sized cooler to make small test batches. has anyone tried this yet and if so how did it work?

i thought i scored when my neighbor gave me three cases of bottles that have been in his basement since the seventies. some have a 1961 on the bottom. they felt different so i capped one to see if they were the same size as modern bottles, everything was good so i washed a case. started...

something aint right. i punched in a recipe for a ten gallon batch of wheat ipa with a 24 pound grain bill along with 2 pounds of rice hulls. beersmith said too use 32.5 qts strike water.(seemed right) then it said to sparge with 12.79 gallons to get 12.55 gallons pre boil. wtf.:drunk:

woke up this morning to see my starter had blown the foam stopper out of my starter jug. sure hope it did not pick up any infections

i am starting to have a metallic aftertaste in my beer that has been in the bottle longer than a few months. been brewing faster than i am drinking it any ideas what i can do besides drinking faster? i already use oxygen absorbing caps

i have been brewing for about three years i have made maybe 25 batches . 19 all grain the rest extract. i have made two bad batches. one was just plain infected and theother one has a sour taste that i hope comes out with time. both bad batches were liquid yeast. wlp 001 and wlp 002. can a...

i have been dumping my spent grain behind my shed all winter but now that it is hot outside the grain i dumped last week really smells bad. i can smell it from the house if the wind is rite. its gonna go in the trash till it gets cold again:cross:

i would like to know what everyone thinks of this. 10 lbs 2row 1 lb crystal 60 1lb of flaked wheat. 4 four ounce additions of spruce tips . 60 min 40 min 20 min 10 min. and a package of safale us 05. makes a 5.5 gallon batch

just watched a documentary on hulu called beer wars. makes me hate bmc even more.:mad:

made two starters one wlp 041 took off right away the other was wlp 002. both were the same but the041 was on my stirplate the002 i swirled every time i walked by. does the stirplate make that much difference or is the 002 slower fermenting than the041. made both saturday evening it is now 48...

i recently made a ryepa with a 15 and a half pound grain bill and i would like to up the rye flavor a bit. the recipe has two pounds of rye malt and a half pound of flaked rye. which one should i increase the rye malt or the flaked rye?

i have a recipe that calls for thomas fawcett black maltbut my lhbs only has breiss black malt. is there a big differance between the two or is it the same?

opened 4 bottles of a cain and ebel clone. got two foamers and two that taste like wet newspaper. really bad aftertaste. they were three weeks in primary then three weeks in the bottle. i dry hopped for ten days. i think i got a lot of trub in the bottles.some are an inch thick on the bottom...

i built a water filter using a whole house filter from instructions on this forum.i used to buy bottled drinking water and my beer was good . i don't know if my filter is removing more minerals than the bottled watercompany removes. should i add gypsum? i do brew a lot of ipas and other hoppy beers

anyone ever try rhino liner on their brewstand? would it stand up to the heat? this stuff is almost indestructable and i think a brewstand would last forever

i have this recipe for a bass ale clonehttp://beerrecipes.org/showrecipe.php?recipeid=86 it is not very clear as to what type of yest to use anyone brew this or something similar? i could use some input from the experts

i brewed a honey orange hefeweizen from the hbt database and was wondering how long to leave it on the yeast. (primary only) i usually leave my beer for three weeks before bottling. i was wondering if that is too long for a wheat beer