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Hello fellow homebrewers! Due to a busy schedule... I took a year long break from brewing and just started back up again at the end of 2014. I had been brewing for many years and have 50+ batches under my belt. I always found it funny reading on here that people stopped brewing for whatever...

In the past year I have had two slow leaks on my co2 lines which completely drained my cylinder and left me quite thirsty. I currently use hoseclamps to secure the 1/4" beer tubing lines onto the fittings. However, after putting the lines in the bathtub, I have noticed that if pushed or...

Turned out great!!! :mug: I was just reading some tasting notes (I have never tried one) and I am very happy with it! It has many different complex flavors and a nice acidic finish with a slight spice to it. What a great style! I would recommend this style to all of my fellow brewers...

Well... I brewed an American Ale on Friday and left the 10lbs of spent grain sitting in some bowls. It was a simple batch 9lbs of two row and a lb of munich. I'm an apartment brewer so it's a bit of a pain to bring the grain down to the garbage room. Anyways... I had been busy in the...

I was just thinking about racking onto a yeast cakes as I just reused a Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan cake for a last batch before the hefe season ends (at least up here). Anyway... Then I thought about re-racking onto a second yeast cake and wondered if anyone has ever attempted it and what the...

Hi fellow hop growers! I am just starting to burrs on my plants and I am a little confused on the production of the plants. My cascade and centennial, both planted last year as rhizomes, are doing great again! Tons of burrs! However, my mt. hood and willamette, both transplanted to my...

I have a cascade plant at my girlfriend's parents house that is a fourth year pant that was transplanted in its third year. It just started to produce burrs as I made it up here today. I want to take the plant apart, cut the roots up and make a bunch of plants to crawl up the side of some...

I haven't been having any luck with my keezer lately... Today I managed to break the end of the probe off of my temperature controller. Some alcoholic smelling liquid came out and the freezer immediately shut off much to my disappointment. Does anyone know what liquid it is filled with and...

I cleaned my keezer last night because it was starting to smell a little musty. When I finished I forgot to put the temperature sensor back in. So at about 7am I heard this loud crash. Figured it was nothing and went back to bed. Then again at around 10 I heard another and knew it came from...

So long story short... I bought two rhizomes this year to plant and put them in around april or may. Then about half a month later a friend of mine had a few 3rd year plants that he wanted to get rid of so I transplanted them to my yard. For some strange reason the 1st year cascade is...

When brewing beer it's good to get lots of o2 in the wort for the yeast. Is it good to do the same for wine? Thanks, Matt

Long story short I have no beer right now!! :( I brought two kegs to my girlfriend's brother's wedding and they were cleaned out. Much to my satisfaction they were enjoyed by all and I had many complements. Nonetheless, because of my dry state, I kegged my week old hefeweizen yesterday...

It's on my first year magnum too! Doing better than my third year plants! So far at least!

I've been home brewing for a while and now swmbo got into a wine kit and I had the idea to make some fruit wines. In the okanagan here fruit is incredibly plentiful. Anyways... Do you have to boil the fruit mixture (wort?) in order to sterilize it?

I recently purchased some expired wyeast packs that were out of date but still viable for pitching. The packs seemed fine whiling smelling a little off however nothing drastic. I've never had an infection in over 20 all grain batches and my sanitation procedures stayed the same. Well I pitched...

Long story short... My girlfriend's parents want to grow hops at their house on the pacific coast. They don't really get long winters and hardly get below freezing. More or less what we want to do is have a bunch of hop plants growing over a lattice to create kind of a shady gazeebo type...

I have tons of black ants on my hop plants. They don't seem to be eating the hops but there is almost one ant on every leaf!!! Anyone have any idea why?

I've heard many different opinions about temperature preference when fermenting a lager. What do you do?

I'm about to start my keezer build soon and was wondering how most people attach the collar to the keezer?

Two questions... 1. A 3rd year hop plant that I transplanted from a friend's yard has two sections of bines growing out of the ground about half a foot apart. There are a good 4 bines coming out of the smaller area. Should I cut these off and treat them as part of the main plant or as it's...