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I can't drop the crystal all together since I want that malt sweetness. My goal is to just imperialize a standard American amber and make it a little more on the red side. After looking at multiple amber recipes, they all had about 10-15% crystal malts, so I kept mine to around that but I'm now...

This is my first attempt at a 100% made up recipe so a little help would be appreciated. I'm currently stuck on if I have too much specialty grains. I am going for an imperial American amber/red. The numbers are for a 1 gal batch at 70% efficiency. 2.7 lbs 2-row (80% of grain bill) 5.6 oz...

I am getting ready to brew a German Alt and in order to get the beer to stay very clean I plan on lagering it for 4 weeks. After the primary I will transfer to a secondary and let it finish fermenting but after I reach my final gravity do I need to transfer it to a different carboy and lager...

I tapped my Rye Pils last night and it smells/tasts like a fruit salad. I am wondering if the off flavors may have came from fermentation or an infection. It fermented in a temp controlled kegerator for about a month. After 75-80% completed fermentation I transfered it to a secondary and did a...

Oh man reading that people in Oregon and Washington have growth already scare me. I live in Texas and I don't have any kind of growth yet. If they didn't make it through the winter it's not because it was cold (maybe a weeks worth of freezing temps) but because I or the bugs last year killed...

My Nugget has been getting eaten alive by beetles. I have caught two in the act, one got away and the other is trapped under a glass for his buddies to watch him die. I got home yesterday to find that instead of just eating some small holes in the bottom half of the plant (about 6th tall right...

For Christmas I got a book of 1 gal. recipes, in the recipe it calls for a half packet of yeast. Is there a way for me to save the other half, I don't want to just dump it out? Oh and the yeast I'm using is Wyeast if that matters.

Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of growing on both sides of the house at this time. I only have one trellis and one rhizome. I know I should have probably purchased more than one but with time constraints and other factors I figured I would just start with one. And it is a Cascade so I...

So I am a noob at hop growing, I live in the Dallas, Tx area and if this summer is anything like last summer it's going to be tough but I am up for the challenge. My question is, since I live in a place that gets upwards of 80+ days of over 100 degrees, very little rain, and a lot of strong...

I need a REAL Carboy Cleaner because I recently purchased a cheap knock-off and the plastic stem already broke and the pads were barley long enough to reach the sides of the carboy.

Glass carboy falls at a rate of g=9.8m/s2 + one big toe to stop said carboy = not a good day. Solution!? A carboy cleaner.

I need a carboy cleaner because I haven't had much luck with using a brush. A couple problems I have had: 1. I have dropped a GLASS carboy when trying to pick it up and swirl it around to loosen the gunk. 2. I chipped the rim of my carboy with the brush. 3. I am always afraid I'm going to...

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I had the exact same problem with 2 of my beers. one was because i didnt sanitize the keg well enough but the other one i bottled. After 2 days in the bottle it tasted good and no off flavors but after a week there was a weird taste. After taking it to a friend that knows homebrew he said...

I didn't tighten the nut down beucase I didn't think it would make that big of a difference but after I get home from work today i will try to get it close to 12 and then tighten the nut down. I shouldn't be low on CO2, I just got it filled and I know I didn't get screwed because the guy...

I sprayed soapy water on everything and there weren't any bubbles.

I kegged my first batch last night. Everything went.... ok, I guess, but I am having one problem. It seems like my regulator is having a hard time keeping steady pressure. I spent about an hour just trying to get the psi close to 12, it was at about 15 and wouldn't come down for a while...

Thanks for the info. I can't wait to keg my first beer this weekend.

Since air gets denser when cold, will that effect the PSI or amount I need to set the pressure at?

I have noticed that some people put their CO2 in their kegerator while some people have them outside of it. My kegerator is set up to do both so is there a plus or minus to either situation. Thanks.