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Ladies and Gentlemen, Long time homebrewer here, who recently got into the the fun hobby of aquaponics, a system that has a lot of similarities to electric brewing, I swear. Aquaponics is a system that combines fish farming with hydroponics, the growing of plants in a soil-less environment...

Due to some bad planning, I have a fermenter full of finished beer with no place to go - all my kegs are full, and will remain so for a while longer. This is a pale ale in a 7G bucket that has now been sitting about 6 weeks, but can't be kegged yet. Are there any problems of letting it sit...

I brewed an IPA recently and, of course noted the OG without much thinking. Today, during a routine gravity check, I noticed that my OG was 1.066 and my FG 1.012 (these are temp corrected values.) It dawned on me that 7% ABV is way higher than what I intended for this recipe (I know, first...

Recently brewed a 5G recipe using a 2.5G boil volume. On finishing, I realised I didn't have the fermenter available that I thought I had. all I had available was a 5G plastic bottle. So, I decided to throw in my 2.5G of wort, and add water until reaching 4G, leaving 1G worth of head space...

I left a bucket of Stout fermenting in the coldest room in my house. It was a steady 59-63 for at least 10 days, primary fermentation was most probably finished, but I usually leave in primary for about 4 weeks min. It was pitched with WLP013 London Ale. However, recently the weather around...

Tried my first big mini mash recipe last night, 3lb of grain in the bag, hard to keep the whole bulging thing submerged. Everything went well, except the OG reading came out at 1.061, when the recipe's expected OG was 1.052. Is this a fairly typical deviation or is it so large a deviation to...

I just acquired a fermentation chamber (ok it's an old fridge with a probe & thermostat installed) and of course, immediately brewed up a batch and let it ferment for 4 weeks in there. Now that I've bottled that batch, I'm wondering if I need to let the bottles carb up in the colder...

So I've brewed a few extract recipe kits from AHB and everything is going great (apart from needing much more beer and equipment and a second job to pay for it all). I'd like to start making some smash recipes, in order to actually learn what kind of flavours are contributed with each type...

Made a Koelsch recipe, pitched Wyeast 2565 "Koelsch Ale". Googled the yeast, saw the figure 73-77 and threw the fermenter in the coldest part of the house, keeping it at a steady 75-77F for a week. Welp, turns out Koelsch Ale yeast has an Attenuation of 73-77, but it's temp range is 56-70F...

Made a batch of Chimay Red clone extract yesterday, and I'm trying to figure out why I got a particularly way off OG. I boiled about 2.5 gallons of water, steeped about 0.75 pounds of specialty malts, and then added 9.5 pounds of Extra Pale Extract for an hour. 15 minutes before the end...

The hell I did it's freaking awesome:mug::rockin: Seriously I had to make a follow up post to my newb questions I posted on here a few weeks ago with this amazing news: I have literally made beer! Not even an alchoholic, fizzy grain juice concoction, but BEER! It's good! Hell no, it's...

Hello expert brewers; After wanting to brew my own beer for a few years now, I spent this week researching equipment and costs, and low and behold, got my budget approved by the wife. I'm pretty shocked. I live in Austin so I'll be heading down to AHB tonight or tomorrow and figure I'll...