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Just received a pound of sasquatch hops. Now i need an all grain recipe. Anyone had experience with this hop. Thanks

I was a little worried about ferment temps with my kolsch 2565 Wyeast. Ambient temperature is 54 degrees, and this is 48 hrs later. Guess i was fretting for nothing. PS. This was from a vial frozen in May/2014 and stepped up

Just cleaning out my garden, and found i have some lemon balm in there. Cant remember why i put it in there,but whatever. I sometimes like a lemon taste in a beer, so if I dried the leaves, could i use it in the boil, or would dry hopping be a better idea. And any ideas for a recipe would be...

I have a 1.050 kolsch going in my fast ferment conical. The thermowell temperature says it is 53* (ambient about 50*). It is bubbling vigorously every 4 seconds, . I pitched onto the yeast cake from a previous batch of Kolsch,about 10 hrs ago,that i fermented at 60*. . My question is, being that...

Hi all, To start, i racked a munich helles from my fastferment conical after 3 weeks at 50*, and then up to 68* for diacytel rest. At 4 weeks when i was going to rack to keg, i gave it a taste, and it had a strange metallic taste. After scouring the web for possible reasons, (improper storage of...

Hi all, No problems here, just curious as to why: I made my first 11 gallon batch (always made 5 gallons), and i split it into 2 separate fermenters of 5.5 each. I pitched a 2 liter 3rd generation US-05 into 1 fermenter, and a new package of US-05 into the other. The 2 liter starter was...

Hey everyone, I have a kolsch volcanoeing away, which i have already top cropped after 48 hrs. My buddy would like some yeast, so could i top crop again,4 days later? Thanks Barney

Hi all, Made my first batch of apple cider from a vinoka kit and is in the fridge cold crashing now. I wanted to try sweetening with frozen apple concentrate, but damned if I can find any frozen concentrate. I live in Campbell River, Vancouver Island, and I have checked every store here, nada...

Hi all, I make beer and wine all the time, and my neighbor asked me if i could make him a dry apple cider, so I purchased a vinoka apple cider kit. I asked my neighbor what sweetness he would like on a scale of 1-10. He figured he would like about a 4. So do I: 1: ferment down to a certain SG...

Hi all, Attempting to wash my first lager yeast. It is a 2308 wyeast munich lager. This picture is after 24 hours. I have another jug in the fridge which is the same. I have washed numerous ale yeasts quite easily. It is from a munich helles recipe i found on here. I know its dark, but i...

Hi all, Picked up some ball lock tanks the other day, and 2 of the tanks still had beer in them. I asked the person how long the beer was in the keg, and they said they were not sure,but probably 2 years anyway. They said they were both dark beers. One keg still had pressure in it, while the...

Hi all, Just picked up a couple of bottles of Belhaven Twisted Thistle IPA. Has sediment in the bottom. Has anyone harvested yeast from this? I just read on the label when i got home,(couldnt read at beer store,no glasses) it says "conditioned in Scotland". Would this be a no go? Thanks Barney

Hello all, I am going to try my first attempt at yeast freezing following directions found on this site. My preform tubes are in the mail, but in the mean time,my wife wast throwing out her old plastic beading tubes. I was curious if anyone has used these for freezing yeast. I realize they cant...

Hi, I just finished brewing up a 5 gal batch, and i saved the last 1.5 liters dregs of the mash. It has a SG of 1.016. I plan on brewing again in a couple of days, and the batch will be a 1.049 Ale. Can i use the 1.016 to make a starter, or should i boil it, and add some DME to it. If so, how...

Hi, Would like to try and harvest some commercial beer yeasts. I live in central vancouver island, and there doesn't seem to be a great selection to choose from at the local liquor/beer stores. There is a Saltspring Island brew that is unpasteurized/unfiltered, so i think that might be a good...

Over at my buddies brother-in-laws having a couple of beer, and he says to me if I wanted some coopers extract cans that he had in the garage. I says sure, so he gets me a can. The bottom is rusted, but still has plastic lid on top, with directions, and the yeast pack. I said, how freaking old...

HI all, I purchased 2 buckets of fresh wine juice,(not a kit), and started it Sept 16. I racked into a carboy when the SG got to 1.02. It is now Oct.1 and the SG is .990-.992. The directions say to rack into bucket, add sorbate and Kmeta, and then degas, then rack back into sterilized carboy...

Hi all, Being new to brewing, i need some step by step directions on how to brew the ingredients my wife got in town from the home brew store. We live a ways out of town, but the guy at the hbs said i could phone him and get directions, but i would rather have something i could look at to refer...

Hi all, Being new to brewing, i need some step by step directions on how to brew the ingredients my wife got in town from the home brew store. We live a ways out of town, but the guy at the hbs said i could phone him and get directions, but i would rather have something i could look at to refer...

Hi all, This is gonna be a weird question, but, I decided to bottle my Brewhouse Cream Ale kit outside today, because it was nice and sunny. After i racked it into my priming bucket, I turned my back for a second, and my 11 month old Lab puppy decided to take a a bunch of shlurps out of my...