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So I brewed up a Pale Ale kit from Brew House which is the concentrated wort kit (comes with 15L of wort) which I then add water and top it up to be 20L. OG was 1.060 and it got stuck at like 1.023. I used a dry saffale s05 for this batch. Its been at 1.023 for like 2 weeks now without any...

hey guys i'm new to brewing and i am just finishing up my first elderberry wine in memory of my grandpa, and i had an interesting idea for my next project. So once a week my friends and i get together and play d&d. In one of our sessions my character was the last person standing to going head...

Howdy, I’m new to homebrewing. I’ve brewed 3 different kits but I want to make my own pale ale recipe. I’ve read “The Beer Bible” and “How To Brew” for good background knowledge. I’m concidering using brewer’s gold as the bittering hop, but I’m unsure about what to use for the aroma hop. I want...

Hello guys, I was wondering if whirfloc addition could decrease yeast effectivity. Since I started using them I noticed that my beer is getting out kind of flat. Not sure if this could be due the whirfloc or any other factor when bottling the beer. I would appreciate if any of you guys have...

Greetings fellow brewers, I've been reading a bit on how I should go about to isolate yeast strains from my favorite beers. Apparently, some commercial brewers use two different yeast strains at separate times in the brewing process. One for fermenting and one for priming. One popular beer for...

Hi Guys, I brewed a pale ale (LME extract kit) about 15 days ago. Pitched Safale 05 yeast at around 70-75 degrees. Fermentation started within 12 hours or less. Bubbled quite a bit for the first week or so. Now it has been in the fermentor for 15 days at a consistent room temperature of...

Hello fellow homebrewers, I'm a complete beginner when it comes to this stuff and my very first batch is nearly done fermenting. I have a few (probably stupid) questions. Firstly, I ordered an equipment kit from Homebrew Supply.com that came with all kinds of extra toys (immersion wort...

Hi, I've been searching online forums to find a good answer for this question: I know how to calculate ABV in a routine beer batch. What I can't figure out is what to do with my math if I add additional sugar (honey, agave, etc.) when I transfer to the secondary. If I start at 1.055 and then...

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OK so i plan on building a kegerator from the ground up for cheaps just to get to the point I'll be getting a 1.7 cubic foot mini fridge for $20 that works perfect and is barely used and im going to gut it. I wanna keep it relatively light because I want to be able to move it easily and not...

So, slightly confused. I know I'm supposed to rack my beer from the fermenter to the bottling bucket after putting the priming sugar mixture in the bucket. But, couldn't I just rack the beer into a large pot that I mix the priming mixture into (after the liquid has cooled of course)? What's...

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I would like to find some way to force carbonate bottles of beer rather than just a keg. I talked to my local beer making store and they said it would be nearly a 300 dollar investment to pull that off. Does anyone have any more cost effective ideas?

I went to our local organic market the other weekend and got really excited to see some cheeses soaked in wine. I was wondering if anyone knew the process and length of how you go about soaking your home made cheese in a wine or beer? Also I did try this on my own by making a gouda soaked in...

I want some true sour beer lovers to taste my Sour Cherry Crick. So if you'd like to taste this Sour Mash, Oak-fermented Cherry wheat ale, (imitation Kriek), I'm open to trades for other homebrews or craft brews. Anyone interested either contact me on here or email at [email protected]...

I just bought my Haier Kegerator and upgraded to a triple tower right away. I am selling the single tower / faucet / beer line / gasket / plastic handle that came with the Haier Kegerator, unused and brand new. It does not include the 4 screws needed for installation eBay is selling them...

I'm looking for unusual beer recipes. preferably recipes that you have actually made yourself or at least drank and liked. :tank::mug:

I read this study a while back and thought it might be interesting to share it here with HBT. This is not my work at all and I take no credit for anthing other than posting it here for you fine brewers to read.It is just something I found interesting when doing some research. Check it out and...

Brewers are constantly pushing the envelope with crazy new techniques but just when you think brewing technique can't get any more eccentric, someone proposes an idea so radical it practically blows your mind. I just finished reading the most recent issue of Zymurgy, and Charlie Papazian just...

Ok I did my first partial mash today and everything seemed to go fine until the end; I missed my target gravity by a pretty fair amount. I mashed 4.75 lbs of grain (3lbsMO, 1lbs Crystal 20, and .75 biscuit) with 5.94 qts of water at 154 for 60 mins, batch sparged and came out with 2.35...