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I am currently brewing a chocolate and poblano pepper stout. It has been aging for a week or so after fermentation stopped, and I added some 100%cacao dark chocolate and some fresh peppers, all sanitized in vodka. A few days later I looked and this has formed. There is no airlock activity and...

I am making my first attempt at watermelon wine on Monday. I have a decent amount of beer experience, but I've never done a wine. id love some feedback on my recipe. One gallon batch: take a large watermelon and puree the inside, run through a strainer to remove excess pulp. add 1 1/2lbs sugar...

I've put together a NEIPA recipe, but i'm short on money, and my brew supplier only sels 50 and 30g hop packages, so that is something I had to be aware of, so I wanted to ask you guys if this is still a working recipe. 15l batch Grains: American Pale Ale malt 2kg Marris Otter 1kg Flaked oats...

I'm looking for some recommendations or adjustments for this IPA recipe. Any help is greatly appreciated. 12lbs - 2row 0.5lbs - Crystal 40 0.5lbs - Carapils .75oz - Columbus @60 (~40 Ibus) .5oz - Chinook @10min (~8.5 Ibus) 1oz - Amarillo @5min (~6 Ibus) 1oz - Chinook dry hop 1oz - Amarillo dry...

I have a standard kettle-soured berliner recipe I use, but I've found it a bit too sour for my taste in the summer. Coincidentally I happen to have about 5kg/10lbs of rhubarb in my freezer I'd been saving for brewing and thought the two might make a good match. Does anyone have any advice or...

Good afternoon everyone! I am having a bit of trouble getting one of my faucets off of it's tower shank to give it a proper cleaning. So much trouble that I snapped the tooth off of the spanner wrench and had to replace it. Thus far I have tried, hot water and boiling water poured over the...

Hi there, I finally made the jump to all grain brewing. I’ve done one with my cousin who brews quite a bit and now 2 on my own. I made the zombie dust clone: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/5916/zombie-dust-clone-all-grain I felt like it was almost the perfect brew, but I...

Hey guys, I have recently decided it's time to bring the E-Herms dream to life and have hit a bit of a snag. I am by no means an electrician and I am having one heck of a time trying to find exactly what I need to power this puppy, since I want to be able to run both elements and pumps at the...

Hi all, We had long time plans to do a sour. So recently (14-1-2018) we set out to do a graded souring. We brewed a saison which we fermented with WLP566 (Belgain Saison II). After two weeks (28-1), when airlock activity and gravity readings came to an arrest, we pitched in a package of Wyeast...

I started my 1st batch of mead i used about 3lbs of honey to make 1gallon and i used lalvin ec-1118 followed the directions on the back the water was at just under 109f and it didnt foam really at all and i also left it in the water a little longer then the 15mins it says and now it is about 2...

So this is what happened. I have currently just finished bottling my first homebrew kit and I think I screwed it up already and didn’t notice until I realized I had about 9 500ml bottles extra. The problem is when racking from primary fermenter to my secondary fermenter I left way to much...

This is my second attempt at making makgeolli (my first being like 4 or 5 years ago). On my first batch the rice separated nicely into three layers in the jar while fermenting. At the top there was rice, followed by a cloudy layer of water on top of another layer of rice at the bottom. Pieces of...

I’m making an all-grain Left Hand Milk Stout clone and my gravity has been stuck @ 1.030 for the last 2 weeks, it’s already been fermenting for 2 weeks prior to that (4 weeks total). The recipe has the Final Gravity stationed @ 1.016, I used a different type of yeast then I usually do (I used...

What’s up brewers? I made my third extract batch a few weeks ago which was a zombie dust clone. I let it ferment for 3 weeks and dry hopped it during the second week. It has been conditioning in bottles for two weeks. However, there is a lot of sediment in the bottles. It smells really good and...

So I was brewing a Walnut Vanilla Amber, and after pouring my wort into my carboy, a family emergency came up, and i was unable to pitch the yeast for about a week. the fermenter had a blowoff tube attached, and was undisturbed during that time. Is it too late or unsafe to pitch the yeast? Will...

Last night we bottled a Double IPA (Extract with 6 Lbs Gold, 1 LB DME, 1 LB Corn Sugar) it was hit with lots of hops throughout the boil, including some CITRA LupulN2 Powder. It fermented fine over 3 weeks, Tasted excellent last week when we measured the gravity (1.008). It tasted fantastic and...

Hey yall, it's my first time brewing anything. I've got incredibly limited resources, but I believe I'm on the right track to making my first batch of wine. I added some bakers yeast to some grape juice after activating it and saturating the juice with more sugar for the yeast to eat and I've...

I made a post in the beginner's forum, but I'm having some issues getting an AG batch to go right. I would love if a member could come and help me by either going through a brew day with me to point out any mistakes that I'm making, but most importantly I would love if someone could come and...

Ok so I took 100% apple juice concentrate with only juice and vitamin c. Added about a cup of sugar and a packet of yeast, put a balloon with a pin prick in it and left it for a few days. It bubbled after a day and an they disappeared. Now I'm left with a container of slightly discolored apple...

I'm am starting on my build for my next project a glycol chiller controlled by craftbeerpi! Just finished my brew controller build this one should be easier. I'll be using a portable everstar a.c. Unit @ 11000 btu (a little bigger than I wanted I was hoping to stay under 10 amps this is 12 amps...