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I have a oatmeal stout on tap right now and it is amazing. The only problem is that altough the beer will pour with a good tight head, it dies down to a ring in about a minute and it leaves no lacing. Carbonation is medium low, but is enough to insure that there will be some foam, as is evident...

I just dumped a batch of perfectly good wort after a 3 hour brewday because the pos clamps on my immersion chiller gave way and water sprayed in the wort. I had two clamps on that line too. It was a beer with 8 ounces of hops in the boil, so I'm out a pretty penny in hops and will have to...

Hi, I’ve recently started kegging and I my chest freezer is now used as a keezer. My « brewery » is a very small spare bedroom. We have another upright freezer in there for food and my girlfriend made it very clear she doesn’t want a third fridge/freezer in there. She also made a very angry face...

I'm at a complete loss here. This is the second beer I've kegged. The other finished up at the bottom of my chest freezer after I put the beer at 20 psi and let the beer line connected with a picnic tap not screwed in all the way... That was fun to clean up. I decided to keg my hefe on...

I've never done a wild/sour beer, but I brew a strong keeping ale every year so I have the basis of big beer brewing down (aeration, pitch rate, etc.). I don't actually keep any, but that's another motivation for brewing a beer that absoltely needs to mature, to teach me patience. My plan is...

www.hops-canada.com Just wanted to give these guys and gals a shout out for being a good online vendor with great prices and customer service. They answered my questions promptly even though they were dab smack during harvest season. The prices are insane compared to buying at 2.55-3.00 a pop...

I bought myself a new freezer since my beer fermentation chest freezer has been used for its intended purpose by my gf for the last few months. I transferred the food to the new freezer, cleaned the ice in the old freezer and drained/mopped the water. I plugged the old freezer into the...

I don't know why I'm writing this here since this is a brewing forum and I don't know any of you guys personally, but I just got news that my mom was told by her doctor that she has several masses in both of her breasts and it doesn't look good... There's still chances that it might be...

I bought some more speciality malts from Ontario Beer Kegs (great place btw) and ordered the dark (20L) Munich instead of the regular 8-9L variety. I've never brewed with darker Munich before. I bought it with the intention of adding to a lower abv Saison. The grist is very simple, all pils...

I'm looking at perfecting 2-3 house recipes for the next year to dial in my system and process. The first beer will be a saison which I have tried three somewhat different grainbills and hopping regimens with Wy3711, all of which are promising, and I want a pale ale and maybe a stout/porter or...

I know it's "normal" to sometimes get fermentation without any krausen, but has anyone figured out possible causes to the phenomenom ? I brewed two beers this weekend: a saison and a milk stout. Both used pils as their base. The saison developped 4 inches of sticky, gooey krausen on top of the...

I'm brewing a saison tomorrow. Brewed one with the exact same grainbill last week (basically pils, with a touch of wheat and sugar), and I finished it with styrian goldings. I want to try a different finishing hop this week. What I have on hand: a) Cascade b) Centennial c) Chinook d) Summit e)...

The title says it all. I'm looking into getting back into homebrewing in the very near future after an almost two year hiatus and I have some ingredients left, namely a boatload of vaccum sealed Tradition hops wich have been kept and the freezer. Yeast I have evidently thrown away a long ago. I...

I have an old ale that has reached FG and it is around 10% ABV. I fermented it with S-04. I want to bottle condition and age it. For my everyday beers, which are low gravity bitters and milds, I usually cold crash shortly after FG has been reached and bottle after the beer has cleared and most...

Hi. I have asked in the past about brewing a milk stout without lactose. The couple of batches that resulted were good, but they simply did not have the mouthfeel and they were too caramel heavy. With that in mind, I tried to come up with a recipe that has no crystal malt in it and that uses...

I have two old Ringwood 1187 smackpacks. One is dated Aug 2011 (!) and the other is a more reasonable November 2011. Since I' m not in any hurry to brew due to the weather being very nice (I use the water bath technique for temperature regulation), I'm tempted to smack them, watch if they swell...

I have a perfect south facing spot where I want to plant my hops next year. They'll be against the wooden posts that support my second level deck, so there's no worry about building anything. I'll just run some twine/wire down and voilà, perfect spot. Except for the fact that there's little to...

The (soon to be) wife and I have decided we want to adopt a dog, but I don't want a new puppy. I have had a few puppies when I was a child, so I don't necessarily need to have the new dog experience: ie. cute fluffy stage, housetraining, obedience, etc. Plus, I don't really want to "buy new" per...

Ok, we had a party last weekend and several of my beer glasses ended up in the dishwasher by mistake :drunk: Yeah, by mistake. Now, we use that horrible Jet-Dry soap thing that leaves the glasses with a soapy residue to avoid water spots. Now the glasses ruin the head hardcore. I poured a beer...

RECIPE: Sorry for the metric measurements: 0,50 kg Grits (1,0 SRM) Adjunct 12,50 % 3,00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2,0 SRM) Grain 75,00 % 0,30 kg Rice, Flaked (1,0 SRM) Grain 7,50 % 0,20 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1,0 SRM) Sugar 5,00 % 25,00 gm Goldings, US [3,90 %] (60 min) Hops 15,3 IBU...