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What if I want to make an apple cider (OG 1.052) and add a 12oz can of apple juice concentrate 1/2 way through the fermentation? Should I just compare the grams of sugar to pounds of white sugar and put that into BeerSmith?

When you're dating a wine maker and you insist on dry hopping some wine... for science

I made a 5 gal Iserweizen recently, its just a Hefeweizen, but at the saccharification temp I scooped out a gallon of thick mash and boiled it for about 15 min. The beer got a higher OG than expected, and it finished fine. I think the enzymes in the main part of the mash convert the starches...

I think Rogue is pretty bad. They don't put 'best buy' dates on the bottles, and since they charge more than everyone else, the bottles sit on the shelf for a long time. Dead Guy can be a good beer, but the quality is really inconsistent. Their IPA's taste watery, like hop flavored water...

Our walmart sells food grade buckets (no lid) for $3, you could get some of those, and saran wrap a 'lid.'

She probably heard it from an older cousin or something. I played drums when I was 14, and my parents got all concerned that I was pursuing that as a career. I said; nah, I want to be a secret service sniper. They said: 'Oh thank God.' (I had just seen that Clint Eastwood movie) At...

Second. There was a lot of sugar left on the un-rinsed grain.

Well thanks everyone. I think I'm gonna try a SMASH with Idaho 7 (007 hops) and white wheat. I'm not sure what yeast yet, probably something clean and something belgian. I'll update when I have some samples.

You can put the ingredients in a bag. For beers with whole leaf hops, I tie a small bag around the end of my siphon to keep the leaves out of the siphon. What is your process? You shouldn't let the sugar water sit, you should just get that ready when you are ready to ferment. You could...

How do those taste? Do you reuse that culture for more brews? Does the flavor change from generation to generation? I just brewed my 1.033OG wort with 20 IBU hops. I put 2 quarts into 7 containers, and pitched the whole ~3oz of starters. Some of them smelled like fart. For my next...

Last week I made up 7 jars with a couple oz 1.020, ~20 IBU wort, placed them around the garden for a few minutes (started raining). Today I'm brewing some 1.025 wort with 20 IBU, so I can pitch each jar into about 1/2 gal. I'm planning to let that sit for a while after all activity stops, then...

What kind of yeast do you use? I was looking at Wyeast 3333, or 3638. I want to play around with some hefe-ish beers fermented at different temps. Also I want to top crop and see how long I can keep one pitch going.

sweet, thanks

Hi, I've heard that too much wheat can lead to a stuck sparge. Has anyone tried a 100% white wheat beer? For 10 lbs of grain should I just get 1lb or more of rice hulls? Do I need a bag, like for brew-in-a-bag? Thanks

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