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Hello fellow brewers! I am reaching out today to understand how everyone is keeping their condensation down in chest freezers used as ferm chambers? I have a two inkbird connected 10 cu. ft freezers out of three that just will not stop "pooling" water at the bottom/floor and it's driving me...

Brewing up an Oktoberfest and have a starter of WLP820 working since Friday afternoon. I plan to brew later today but by the time I pitch at 45-48F, my starter would have been gone my for 50+ hours (not including decant chill to pitch slurry only). With wlp820 being known for slow starts and...

Ordered a recipe from Keg Connection to brew tomorrow. Entered the specs into BeerSmith and the projected OG comes out to 1.069 With tomorrow being xmas eve and my LHBS is closed, how can I ensure the OG is met? I have a ton of DME to add to the boil if needed but wasn’t expecting to use it...

Has anyone tried brewing with this hop? Recently brewed an ipa with th it and developed some unpleasant garlic/onion and mesquite taste. The aroma on the other hand is amazing. Used at 20min, flameout, Whirlpool at 165F, and double Dry Hopped (high krausen and four days before packaging). Also...

I am curious to know if anyone has ever done an Imp Stout using the BIAB method. I have a three kettle/burner set up but looking for a More of was brew day with about 22lbs of grain. I know with this style patience is a virtue during brew day from mashing, sparging and boiling. Wonder if there...

Landed in Italy today and curious if any homebrewers are located in Rome, Florence or Venice? Want to meet up for beer(s) maybe hangout on a brew day or explore homebrew shops

Seems like I have alot of questions today lol. I've been playing around today with making a starter wort and concluded some curious findings: 1 - Did the two starters based on 2 cups of water to 1/2 cup DME (light pilsner) twice and both hit 1.080... strange. 2 - Did 4 cups of water...

Brewed two batches of the same chocolate porter and having some fermentation issues. First batch, brewed 12/24, came out to 1.044 as I was shooting for 1.67 OG. Very low numbers but decided to let it ride and know that I've left out ingredients on brew day which messed this one up. Pitched...

Recently purchased a new chest freezer to help control fermentation temps, eventually will convert this into a kegerator. I was curious to know what would be the best option to control the heat side of the freezer? I was thinking of adding a heat lamp or heater blanket, maybe? My current...

(two concerns) I've brewed an NEIPA on Saturday and by the next day my fermenter was bubbling away pretty crazy for about two days. Yesterday this active bubbling subsided drastically but was still pumping out bubbles in heavy increments every 15-20 secs. Today (day 4) my fermenter is barely...

Have a brew day meet up with a brewery that's providing a pre-made wort for us to brew with. Curious on a method to effectively utilize this wort. its at 1.046 and the grist is german pils, white wheat malt and carafoam boiled for 30 min with two hop additions. Was thinking of developing my on...

Hello fellow HBT! I am very new to brewing and have 6 batches under my belt (2 extracts, 3 partial mash/BIAB, 1 AG) and I am worried that I may have been on a high level of noob-ness and may have infected a brew. I made an extract blueberry porter and here's where I think I went wrong with...

Sorry if this has been covered already, new to the site and still working out how to navigate it efficiently. Decided to crank up the recipe a bit and instead of using vanilla and blueberry extracts as directed I've decided to rack onto mashed frozen blueberries (after thawing) and vanilla...