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Looking for some recommendations on a replacement for the Mangrove M03 New Castle yeast. This was used in all my Stouts and Porters but seeing how it is no longer produced I need something similar. I have used Nottingham, s-04, Windsor, London ESB and none of these were as good as the M03. Any...

I'm not great at telling stories but will try to make this interesting so maybe others can learn and not give up hope to easily. Living in NC we get the hurricane scare just about every year and this year I decided to make the best of it. I collected about 20 gallons of fresh Hurricane Florence...

I just did my 9th all grain today. Up until the last 4 batches I used the LBS grain mill for the crush. I have gotten between 68-73% efficiency. After I used my own corona mill the first 2 batches were the same but the last two were over 80. Now the only difference with the last 2 was mash time...

Seeing how my tap water is 85 and the temps outside are in the upper 90s to 100s. I figured I needed to make a pre chiller. I got an old AC Condenser from a friend and added some fittings. Put it into a salt water ice bath and it worked pretty good. I got my wort to 74 in 20 minutes with 85...

I have brewed a Strawberry Blonde a few times and is comes out great. I add 4 lbs. of fresh frozen strawberries to the secondary. Im thinking about doing a Blueberry this time. I love Blue Points Blueberry Ale and was wondering how many lbs. of berries to use? Do blueberries give as much or less...

I was going to build the Son of fermentation chiller but had another idea. Living in NC it has been really hot the last few weeks. I used to ferment in the crawl space but even there it got to 80 degrees the last batch. (beer is going in keg today so I dont know how it is) I decided to dig a...

I brewed my first all grain last weekend 4/23. Everything went pretty good but I missed all my temps by about 4 degrees. Still had good conversion %73 and only missed my target by 4 points. After 7 days I took a gravity reading and was sitting at 1.01 (OG was 1.059). Still had a thick krasuen...

I have a question about adding Strawberries to the Blonde I brewed last weekend. Can I add them to the primary after 10-14 days. I would rather add them to the primary as it would be easier. Or do I have to get the beer off of the yeast cake? I tried searching and didnt come up with a good...

I would just like to thank all the fine members and owners of this site. I just started brewing (I did my second batch yesterday) and my first batch came out great. I read The Joy of home brewing 3rd. edition and many posts here. I never had to ask a question thanks to the great search engine...