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Yeast strain: Weihenstephaner (Whyeast 3068) Recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f70/weihenstephaner-dunkel-clone-42549/ Brewday happend 10 days ago. Had a great fermentation and everything started to relax and krausen fell back into beer and all airlock activity stopped. Fast...

I brewed a pale ale about 5 weeks ago and transfered out of my carboy about 1.5 weeks ago and left my yeast cake of US-05 in the carboy just sitting out in ambient temperatures (~67 F) I'm brewing a pretty big IIPA (lots of trub/hops)nd want to pitch right onto that US-05. 2 questions 1...

Caution, boring diatribe (possible drunken rambling?) ahead. I live on an island in the ocean in Alaska and we don't get a whole lot of distro around here of "good beers". Basically we get: 1. Deschuttes- awesome love it. Every beer They put out is great. 2. Ak brewing company - only...

So I just a kegged a strong Belgium (delirium tremens clone). I know belgiums should be car bed a bit higher, so I forced carbbed at 20 psi. I have a 3 keg system with check valves on each keg. Since I carbed my Belgium to 20 and the rest to 12 psi will I be ok lowering the regulator to 12 to...

I've done maybe 15 or so extract batches and am ready to make the jump to all grain. I live on an island in Alaska so getting equipment here is a royal pain in the ass w/ shipping charges so I MUST be resourceful in getting my equipment. I already have: 1. 8 Gallon pot 2. Carboy's I...

Don't know if this is the right place, but here goes... I brewed a Burbon porter w/ a base porter that was around 1.066. I have 9" heavy toast oak sprirals. I plan on adding 16 oz of makers mark in the secondary. 1. Should I use more then 1 Sprial...I have 2?

I smacked my smack pack on thursday (4 days ago) and don't have time to brew today...So realistically I will be brewing tommorrow (5 days after the smack). Will this be ok? Facts: - Knottingham Yeast - Puffed up w/in 5 hours of smack - Kept at stable 70 degree temp... Thoughts?

I'm brewing a pliny clone a heft amount of hops are added at flame out. I plan on whirlpooling my wort and not transfering at much hops as usual to my fermentor. Will the 0 min hop additions be utilized as much since I am trying my best to eliminate them?

Yeast: White Labs California Ale Just made my first starter using 1/2 cup Light DME w/ 2 cups of water. 10 minute boil, with a chill to 70 degrees and pitched at 70 in a sanitized brown growler. Aerated by shaking and covered w/ foil. It's been 3 days, no krausen...what are some signs...

Searched all over for this one..couldn't find an answer. Going on 2 week vacation, can I unplug the kegerator w/ no ill effect? Ambient temp will be 65 or so in my house.

Hey there...I have a DIPA that I dry hopped and the diptube keeps getting clogged with hops leading to a very slow poor. What's the best way of dealing with this? Couple more questions... 1. I've been adding my hops in the secondary by just putting them in and I think that's why I'm...

So I've got a keezer that I have quite the collar on. See the pictures. As you can see there is quite the collar. The second Collar was necessary because I wanted three kegs and the third keg is on the hump. Anyway the temp gradient is enormous from top to bottom. It can be pretty cool at...

So I washed a week ago and my yeast has been sitting in maison jars in my fridge since. I want to brew now and don't feel like making a starter. I will decant the water/beer off slurry, warm to roo temp and pitch. I know I should make a starter, but I feel with the small amount time...

I extract brew. I appreciate the convienience of extract brew. I know I pay a premium on ingredients, but at the same time I don't have to invest a ton of money into the gear to go all grain. Is it ok that I like extract brewing, or do I just need to see the light and go AG?

I just put together my keezer. It's a 5.1 cubic foot freezer with a 13inch collar on top..so quite a bit of head space. I installed a PC fan on top also to circulate air. Anywho it's been running pretty non stop (2+ hours now) and the outside is getting pretty hot. I really don't want...

Just realized in hindisight of course that I probably should not have aerated my wort. I pitched a 10.45 hefe on a yeast cake of us-05. First I aerated the wort heavily by vigerous shaking of the carboy w/ the wort in it. Did I screw this up? Should I have not aerated as I already had a...

I'm about to leave on vacation for a month and I want to brew one more beer before I go. I'm running out of carboys and need to free one up so I can do a quick brew before I go. Can I put a honey kolsch that has been in a secondary for 2 weeks into a keg under CO2 and leave it at room...

Dumb question alert.... With nitrous oxide there is industrial used for cars and other stuff. This stuff is different then medical grade or food grade nitrous I know CO2 can be used for welding and can be used for paintball. Is Co2, Co2? or are there different grades?

LOVE THIS BEER. Would love to clone it for the holidays....anyone?? Cohoho Link

I feel like this is a dumb question, but here goes. I usually brew in 5 gallons in a 6 gallon fermentor and have a bit of headspace where the krausen usually forms. I was reading the benefits of not transfering your beer to a secondary frementor and just letting the beer ferment and age in...