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So I am on my third Cider and looking to back sweeten it a bit. I have never done this before. The first time I used ale yeast and did not need to, the second time i used champagne yeast and it really dried it out. this time I am using wine yeast "cote de Blanc". It has been in the primary...

Hopefully I am just over reacting. But I have never seen yeast like this before. When I made a starter from Wyeast 3944 Belgian Witbier, it must have really had some type of reaction. The bottle the starter was it was covered to the top in residue. Did not think much of it. When I pitched...

So in my brew club, we are having a homebrew contest. All people participating had to pick a style out of a hat, and a type of hops. I got American Rye and cascade. So I am thinking of some kind of American Red Rye pale ale. Not sure if this will work. I saw a clone of founders red rye ipa...

A few days ago i posted a thread about the color of my extract brew. I brewed a Belgian blonde and it came out really dark. It was like a copper color, almost brown with a red tint. People had informed me that I probably had but the extract in a bit early, the full boil. I wasnt upset, beer...

I am still pretty new to brewing. It has been a year and 2 months. I have about 2 batches of mr beer, 4 batches of extract and then 5 batches of all grain under my belt. They have gone pretty well and I have progressed quickly. This weekend I wanted to brew, but it was really cold here so I...

i am brewing a Saison and used wyeast 3711. I was trying to ferment at high temps with this yeast. I brought the fermenter to my second floor which is usually around 70 degress f. I was hoping to get it around 80 so I put a under tank reptile heater on the side of my better bottle. I cant...

I am brewing a Ginger Saison on Friday and my recipe calls for crystalized Ginger. Do u think this is something that my lhbs will have? If not, where can I get it? If I decide to use fresh Ginger root, does anyone have clue what an oz of crystal would transfer to in fresh Ginger?

I am thinking about brewing a Belgian Tripel. I have been reading several recipes on the site a have 2 questions. 1. Alot of the recipes call for turbinado sugar, is that just grocery store bought "sugar in the raw" or is it belgian candi sugar? 2. Also, when is this sugar added...

I am trying to change my beer lines. The line are on there with a metal clamp. Does anyone know how to get these off. Its a pretty tight spot. Thanks

I was adding blackberris to my primary. I brewed a Hefe and let it ferment. After about 7 days, I put 4 pounds of blackberries in the primary after sanitizing. That was about 2 days ago. This morning I opened the primary to see how things were and all the blackberries had floated to the top...

So I was brewing early Saturday morning, a hefe. Everything was going well but when I was cooling down the wort, my chiller broke. The hose came off and started spraying water everywhere. Some did get into the wort, hopeful no infection. I only got the wort to about 120, so I made an ice...

So I made a simple yeast starter last night by adding 3 cups of water to .75 cup of dme. Let them boil for about 20 mins and cooled down to pitching temp. Put them in a santized growler and added the yeast. It was Wyeast 3068. Santized some tin foil and placed it over the growler with a...

Ok, so here is my newest issue. I am making a hard apple cider that started at an og of 1.077. Pretty high, I added some honey and sugar to the cider. I used red star champagne yeast to ferment. I don't want it to go dry, I want to stop it at about 1.015 give or take. Is there a way I can...

So I picked up 4 gallons of fresh apple cider with no perservatives while visiting a cider mill in Cooperstown NY. The fresh cider was delicious, so what could be better, getting tanked while drinking it. I did a cider once before and just added WL775 english cider yeast and it was good. This...

So my first cider i did came out good, but simple. I just added WLP775 English Cider Yeast to 3 gallons of cider I purchased at a local farm. I bottled it with some carb tabs and it was good. This weekend I went to a cider mill and bought 4 gallons of fresh cider with nothing added, it just...

I planted two types of hops and forgot which plant was which. One was Fuggles and the other were Cascade. Is there a way to tell which is which?

So I am going to start making a blackberry Hefe. I went blackberry picking a few weeks ago and ended up with about 6 pounds of very nice berries. I washed them and put them in the freezer. I will be adding them to a secondary. I was thinking about thawing them out and then steeping at 160...

Ok, so I brewed my second all grain recipe a few weeks ago. It was a Belgium strong dark ale. It was supposed to have an OG of 1.091 and final at 1.020. I was pretty upset when my OG was 1.070 after adjusting for temperature. I thought I would probably finish around the 1.020 and my ABV...

I am now on my 10th homebrew, just my second all grain. I have always used wyeast but i brewed a recipe of a strong dark ale that called for white labs 500 Trappist yeast. I have never used any white labs products. I pitched it at about 75 degrees 24 hours ago and have no sign of action. Is...