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I wouldn't call myself a new brewer, but I have never run into this issue before. The porter I made yesterday blew the airlock out - not a first occurrence. I threw on a blow off tube, but it blew that out too - this has never happened to me before. I am now watching an almost constant stream of...

I'd like to start experimenting with aging some of beers on oak, and had some questions: 1. Is there anything special that needs to be done to raw oak pieces before using? My dad is felling an old oak on our property, and it'd be neat to cut up some of it and use it. Do you roast them before...

Howdy, I have 2 gallons of cider fermenting away at the moment, a la EdWort's recipe that we love so much. In the past, I've let it dry all the way out, then bottle condition with dextrose (about 4 oz for 5 gallons). Now, I have a SWMBO who absolutely loves cider, but doesn't enjoy the...

Good morning All, Been awhile since I've been on the forums. I have recently gotten back into homebrewing, and have had some interesting results. Yesterday, I brewed an 5 gal. extract wheat beer with the following bill: 6 lb Wheat DME 1 lb Malted Wheat (Steeped at 160 F) .5 lb Crystal...

Hey guys, need some help. This is the 10G cooler I have, or something similar: Cooler I'm looking to buy a false bottom, and I'm thinking this is the right one (12"): False Bottom My question is a two-parter: 1) Is this the right false bottom? If not, which do I need? and 2) What...

Hey guys and gals, I have my first mead in secondary, been aging for about two months now. I was planning on sparkling it, but after seeing others' difficulties and trying my first commercial still semi-sweet mead last night, I decided to do differently! But now I have questions. I have no...

I submitted two beers to a homebrew competition that happened this past weekend, my first two ever submissions. I wanted to make sure everything went smoothly, so I ended up gluing the labels to my bottles with some spray adhesive. After I dropped them off, I went back to go look at the rules...

I made a starter Sunday night, of about 1.4 L or so water to about 2/3 or 3/4 c table sugar, with a pinch of yeast nutrient. Boiled it up, cooled it, and added to my erlenmeyer. I thought I had a packet of champagne yeast in the fridge, but couldn't find it, so had to let the starter sit sans...

Brewed last night, and during the cooling, my friend picked up the thermometer by the rubber top (which was split along one side, and not really connected to the thermometer anymore), and it promptly slipped out and hit the bottom of the kettle. Needless to say, the bottom of the thermometer...

Hey all, Planning on brewing a pumpkin ale tomorrow, and had a couple questions: 1. I'm already planning on putting the pumpkin in the mash, but what's the best way to prepare it? I am planning using real pumpkin, peeling/de-seeding it, cutting into small bits (maybe 1/2 inch cubes), and...

brewing a mead right now, going to put it in 3G carboy which takes a 6.5 size stopper. I'm an idiot and got an 8.5 stopper, and it is like 1 mm too big, even while squeezing it as much as possible. Any quick remedies on how to shrink my stopper to get it to fit? Would only be for a couple of...

Not sure if this is the correct section for this, but here goes! Ever since I started brewing (been about 3 months now), my SWMBO (girlfriends of ~20 months) has complained and complained and complained about the time I spend on brewing, reading up on brewing, listening to podcasts, and the...

Hey guys. Brewing up an IPA tomorrow with 5 different kinds of hops, and i'm planning on mixing them all together, splitting into around 11 parts, and doing one addition every 10 minutes. Is there a calculator out there that can help me with this? All the ones I have found are for single...

I'm in the process of converting an AG porter recipe to a partial mash, and am hoping to use LME as my extract portion of the partial. Should I not use Dark LME? Intuitively, this seems to make the most sense (dark beer would use dark extract), but a quick search of the forums resulted about a...

... but I'm only going to ask one for now. I'm trying to convert allgrain to PM (by the seat of my pants, trying to learn all about gravity and efficiency and what not), and wondering something. If I enter the allgrain recipe into the Brewer's Friend calculator and get an OG of 1.063 (5...

So, I love this hobby. Hands down. And the way my first brew came out, I am so happy, I can't even explain! So thank you for all of your guidance thus far. BUT (who didn't see that coming), I'm moving in two weeks, and can't really start any new brews between now and then. I don't want to...

I have a hef in primary, and want to add some citrus flavor to it. What part(s) of the fruit should I use for best results? I know zest changes flavors tremendously during baking, does it in brewing as well? Also, should I be careful to leave out the pith (the white stuff, correct term?)? I...

Hey guys, Brewed up an all extract batch of hef last Tuesday (6.6# Wheat LME, dash of light DME, .75 Hallertau (full), .25 Hallertau (10 min)), been in primary for 9 days and everything's looking great. I've started taking a bit of wort out to do my gravity measurements, and have been...

So I just recently brewed up an extract Hef, with 6.6 lb Wheat LME. I added all of the extract at the beginning, and the wort came out super dark - similar to the color of my American Pale Ale. I know that the volume makes the beer look darker, but even considering that, it seems excessively so...

Hola, I've read/been told that it is ideal to refrigerate your beer for at least 48 hours before enjoying, in order for the CO2 in the headspace to get absorbed into the brew (I think we can all agree that more head is always better). My question is, after refrigerating a beer once, will that...