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Hey guys, I've been running a brewing club for about a year now, which is awesome! However, we ran in to a problem with our most recent batch and could do with some opinions! I'll explain the problem, and the person who can give us the best solution will receive a bottle by mail when it's...

Hey guys, I met a girl a while ago who loves mead. But she told me it's so hard to find mead in stores, and it's way too expensive. So i thought: I'm a brewer, I can solve that problem! Anyhow, i made my first 5L test batch of mead yesterday. But only I was not smart enough to check for...

Hey guys! We have a batch of simple apple cider going (Apple concentrate can + 70% juice to OG[1.055] (No further added sugar)). We want to carbonate the cider by adding priming sugar to the bottles. Anyhow, we want to bottle it in to wine bottles in a while. But we were wondering if the...

Hey guys, Today we visited the Pelgrim Brewery in Rotterdam, after tasting a few beers we decided to purchase some bottles to take home too. We came home with a 750ml/25 oz bottle of Chocolate stout (6.5% abv) for €10.00/$13.50, and a 750ml/25 oz bottle of strong Spiced Winterbeer (9.5% abv)...

Hey guys, We brewed our first AG, a hefeweizen, 10 days ago. It's still bubbling away, but we took a hydrometer reading this morning, just out of curiosity. The recipe said (FG: 1.010 - 1.015), but our reading this morning said 1.005. Can anyone explain how it could be so low and still be...

Hey guys! Just some pics of our babies.. How do you guys think they look? The hefeweizen is 1 week old, and the honey triple is almost a month old. The hefeweizen is our first AG, does it look like a hefe should look like? Hefeweizen Close-up Honey triple

Hey guys, In a month or so, we are going to bottle our honeytriple. This beer will have to age for at least a year. But we have 2 problems. 1. We will probably crack half of them before a year has past, due to impatience and eventual drunkness. :drunk: 2. We have limited space in our garage...

Hello! After brewing several long-ripening-time beers, and soon we'll be brewing a stout for St. Patricksday, we would also like to brew a quicker beer so we have something to enjoy while waiting for the others. We've heard that hefe-weizen is a good beer to enjoy young? Also we just bought a...

Hello! A friend of ours who also recently started homebrewing, bottled an i.p.a. 2 weeks ago, but somehow he didn't get the measurements right and added too much priming sugar to the bottles. Now when he cracks open a bottle, the cap shoots off like a rocket with a huge bang. Although none of...

Hi guys, Last week we posted about trouble getting a 5L batch of nettlebeer to ferment after 60 hours. See here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/fixable-ditchable-201462/ We were advised to raise the temperature a bit to wake up the yeast, and it worked! After a few taste tests we are now...

Hi! We aren't getting any reactions at the fermentingforum, so we´ll have a go here! Long story short, we made a wort for organic nettlebeer (OG1.043), and added a yeast starter. This 'superyeast' had instructions for a yeast starter containing yeast, yeast salt, citric acid and orange juice...

Hi. Last sunday, we've brewed a nettle beer. The ingredients were: The juice of boiled down nettles, lemon, ginger, fructose and dextrose. OG: 1.043 We used a poweryeaststarter (poweryeast,yeastsalt,citric acid & fruit juice) We just followed the instructions on the pot of yeast. When we added...

Hi. We just have a quick question. In a week or so we will start another experiment (we will make a blog about it later). So we will devide our wort over several smaller fermenters after making the main thing in our big bucket. This means we will only use the big bucket to prepare the wort...

Hello everyone! Our latest brew of amber beer has been fermenting perfectly for quite a while now, and will soon be ready to go to secondary. As mentioned in earlyer threads, we've split our batch in 3. A large 30L bucket (22L filled, just to make amber beer), and 2 smaller fermenting bottles...

Heya folks! As mentioned in a previous thread, We're going to split up our next batch and experiment with flavours. After reading the "Splitting up a batch for Ghost Chile Pepper Beer" thread, we decided to try to make some pepper beer too! (We have loads of fresh peppers from my garden). But...

First of all, thanks for all the answers to our previous questions, you guys have been a great help so far! Next weekend Erwin and I will start making our second batch. We have an extract kit to make 30L of fine amber beer. As We have made wine in the past, we have 2 big wine fermenting...

Hello again! Our beer (Brewferm pilsener) has been fermenting for 4 days now. The instructions in the kit are too vague and misleading, so we decided to ask our question here. Yesterday, we measured the sugar at 1.015 degrees. Today it still measured 1.015 degrees. And as we don't see any...

About a week ago we (Tom & Erwin) started our first attempt to brew some beer. We used a can of extract (Lager from Brewferm, to be precise). It is now fermenting in a plastic fermenting-bucket. We think it's doing alright, but we have a few questions: 1. The can of extract we used contains...