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Topic is pretty much contained in the header. I live in an apartment, using ye olde plastic tub with ice-filled 2 litre bottles I can get my fermentation temperatures down into the high 50s this time of year, and I have access to a basement for lagering, but not at really icy cold temps. I'm...

I'm a big fan of Bam Biere. For those who don't live in the JP distribution range (which I'm assuming is small), it's a Farmhouse ale with sourness created by reused wine barrels that JP uses for all of their beers. I recently found this clone recipe: ================= Jolly Pumpkin Bam...

Hi guys, Quick question: When I was brewing a Hefe the thing was threatening to blow the lid off my bucket. So I cobbled together a blow off from some 5/16" tubing and the bottom of a 3 piece airlock. It worked like a charm. Now my question is how to clean the stuff with the trub inside...

Hi all, I'm a newbie brewer and I'm interested in using Horizon hops for their resiny flavour. My question from those who've used them, how much do you need to use to get a big resin flavour in a heavier beer? (1.080ish). I'm thinking of using them in an American Barley Wine, but I'm not...

Hi all, Just put a bigger IPA in the primary yesterday and I was beginning to think about ways of reusing the WLP001 yeast cake that will be left when I move it to the secondary in a couple of weeks. One thing that came to mind was a longer aging beer, and I started thinking about doing up an...

Query: I recently dry hopped for the first time and when I went to bottle the beer I noticed a sheen on the surface of my beer. Was I right in assuming that this was oils from the dry hopping? If so, how does the oil distribute into the bottled beer? Is it relatively even? I'm not worried...

OK, in the realm of exploded primaries this is relatively benign. Woke up this morning to make coffee and went to check my primary only to find that the beer had come through the airlock. Not a lot got through, maybe about 1/2 cup of kraeusen had pooled on top of the bucket. I took the bucket...

I've just recently gotten into home brewing, and I'm only now getting ready to bottle my second batch, which is a PM Pale that I dry-hopped with Amarillo and Columbus pellets. Here's the thing, before I added the hops to the secondary I read through many pages of discussion on dry-hopping in...