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If my lager is ready now to start dropping in temp will it hurt to let it wait long enough to brew another lager this weekend then ferment it at the 54F then drop both down at the same time?

Not sure where to put this but I have a lager done fermenting and ready to start lowering in temp. Now my son wants to come over sunday and brew with me another lager. Would it hurt just to leave my first lager in there and not lower temps until the second one is done?

I'm using a cooler with a manifold and evidently I must have knocked the manifold apart when I stirred for the mash. I've tried using a stainless scrubby as a filter but that isn't working. I'm stuck here with grains and water in the cooler and no way to get the runnings out. Could I stick my...

I just bottled a beer I brewed almost two months ago. I took a shot taste of it and wow. Even flat it would be fine to drink. I musta been halfway sober or totally soused when I brewed this one.

I really wanted to brew this weekend but my local brew store is more of a hobby than a store so it will be closed until late next week. I've got plenty of grains to use but I only have lager yeast and 1 oz of mt hood hops at 5.5% and 1 oz of brewers gold hops at 9.7%. I'm not good at designing...

Picked these up for my man cave/brew room from an old bar. Pay no attention to the stars on the wall as I have not peeled them all off yet. This room used to be a kids bedroom. BTW do they even make Zima anymore?

I read in another thread on here about using mesh cloth to line the mash tun. I would need one large enough to cover a 65 gal cooler. Is there somewhere I could buy a large enough piece of this cloth to add to my mash tun. It sounds like a great idea to do.

I keep getting a weird twangy or sharp aftertaste in most of my brews. I thought it was from using extract but just tried one of my first all grain brews and it was still there.The only brew that did not have this was a lager I made where I used RO water for it but also lagered it by moving it...

Just a little story of how a walmart cashier saved my thanksgiving. I was going to fry my first turkey this thanksgiving. Well my mother in law decides well since I am frying one she will not bake one so my bird will be the only bird for the feast. I know squat about frying a turkey so I'm a...

I've got three batches that I am trying to ferment. They are 2weeks, 3weeks, and 4weeks in the primary now and none are finished. I recently switched from extract kits to all grain and doing full boils with no top off water. Could I have an oxygen problem maybe? Fementation seems to kick...

Ok so I had a stuck fermentation I guess. Last weekend I moved 2 of my ales into a closet to raise their temp some and swirled the buckets. In just over a day fermentation started again. This was Tuesday. So this weekend if I am at final gravity finally should I bottle them or give them more...

Does all grain beer take longer to ferment than extract brews? Or am I hunting a temperature thing?

Went to do a gravity on my first all grain brew. A wheat beer using Safbrew WB-06. It's been 2 weeks in the primary. Maintained at 64F but did have one day it's temp dropped to like 54F. It's OG was 1.052 at 70F and today gravity was 1.024 at 64F. It smelled like all my other extract...

I currently have 1 lager already in the lagering phase and down at 34F. I kind of want to do another since I am only 1 week into a month rest. Would it work if I let it ferment at 64F in my ale fermenting box then rack to secondary, and transfer it halfway through primary right after the...

I can't seem to think of a good recipe to brew up this coming Sat. Maybe someone can post one they have had good success with? I love an IPA. Also fond of a wheat. I've got an Ocktoberfest, A wheat, and a pale ale all fermenting atm if that helps. Looking for an AG recipe. Have Vienna, 2...

I did a brew last week that was kept at 64F all week. Well today I added another brew to my chamber and moved the temp probe from the first to the second. Well of course the chamber came on to cool the second down from 72 to 64F. Well I just took temps and it ended up cooling the first brew...

Today was my second AG recipe. 11 lbs 3 oz of grains. Milled it last night at the preset settings on a malt mill. Today I preheated my mash tun. Added 3.5 gal of 170F water and mixed in the grains. I stirred for only about 2 min until temp hit 155F. This ended up sitting for 1.5 hrs while...

This is just an idea I have with what ingredients I have available. It's an AG recipe and I do not have great efficiency yet. I'm shooting for an American Ale or Blonde Ale type beer. Briess 2-Row Brewer's Malt 8 lbs, 0 oz Crisp Pale Ale 2 lbs, 0 oz Crisp Maris Otter 1 lbs, 0 oz...

I brewed a whitbier. It sounded really good but after drinking a few I have come to the decision that I do not like coriander spice. I really don't cook with beer. I don't think this is something I messed up I just don't like it. Use it as a back up beer maybe? Let it age some more and hope...

Ok so I did my first all grain brew today. I did 5lbs of wheat and 5 lbs of maris otter. Brewbuilder had it at 1.057 OG. I put 3.5 gal of 170F water in the tun then added the grain. I stirred like crazy. when I was done it was at 155F so I closed it up for 1.25 hrs.At this time it was at...