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I've really been struggling with this lately. I changed my homebrew set up to go from a standard airlock to a blow off tube into a bottle of sanitzer a while back. The first time I did it, I noticed overnight that my bottle of sanitizer had gone down quite a bit. I found out that the changes in...

I started homebrewing last year and I've made five batches so far. I started off bottling like most people do and my last batch I made the jump to kegging in a small keg. It was awesome to not have to bottle at the end, however one issue I found now is how to transport my beer to share. On New...

Thanks. Here's a follow up question, does this mess up the sugar needed to calculate for bottling? Typically I add like some simple syrup when bottling and use an app to calculate how much to add in order to carbonate the beer. I imagine adding honey after fermentation is complete could risk...

Thanks for all this great information. Newb question here, a couple have used the term 'mazers' - have no idea what that is.

I'm interested in brewing a honey blonde ale and have been looking for a recipe. But as I've been reading up on using honey in brewing I've found some conflicting information. On the one hand I've heard that you need to sterilize the honey because it can have contaminants (wild yeast?) so you...

Hello. I've done a few batches of homebrew so far, and I've only bottled up to this point. I'm thinking maybe I'm ready to make the jump to kegging. Are there some good beginner resources or guides to kegging you recommend? I don't really know anything about it. I know you need a keg and some...

I'm planning out a Christmas beer and drawing inspiration from a number of sources and looking for some advice how I can "Winter/Christmas" up a dunkel recipe. I have a dunkel recipe below that I've been wanting to try. A few years ago a local brewery had a Gingerbread Maibock that I thought was...

That's a great idea! Now I just need a swimming pool... :cool:

Quite possibly, and I've thought about doing that. I live in a severe drought area so I'm trying to be conscientious about my water usage and I know I can try to reclaim that water to use for watering plants, etc. but it's kind of a pain with my setup to do that. So I've kept it a closed system...

Wow, excellent information, thanks for that!

I'm still pretty ignorant about all this stuff. I don't know what you mean by pipe line 😆 I just pulled out one of the last bottles of my first brew last night, which has been sitting in the fridge for about two months, and damn if it isn't significantly noticeably better. So letting is sit...

Thanks for that! Definitely yes to both of your questions. I've joined a local hombrew club and attend regular meetings. I'm probably my own worst critic, and not sure if people are being nice if they say it's good. But I want to make beer that I like, and improve. And in each case, I will...

Each recipe I've tried have had different mash profiles. For the brown ale I mashed in at 166F and then mashed for 60 min at 154F. For the NEIPA it was mash in at 160F and then 60 min at 152F. When brewing I'm measuring gravity using a refractometer. I'm not sure what you mean by converted...

Thanks for that info. I'm still new to this so can you elaborate on what you're talking about? I typically have been bottling my Kveik brews after 8 days and then letting them condition for 3-4 weeks before drinking. I usually leave the bottles at room temperature for the first two weeks and...

Also want to add that I'm pitching the full package of yeast, which in most cases is overpitching for me as I've been doing smaller batches.