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I've searched but haven't found an answer to this question. I cultured from the dregs of 2 two hearted ale bottles and got a nice starter. I just brewed a two hearted ale clone and plan to harvest from it. Do you all top crop or bottom crop from your existing Bell's strain?? The reason I ask...

I have had infected beer before. I had a lager that went terrible on me with a well formed white flaky bubbly pellicle on top. I bottled it and it was fine at first and is undrinkable now. This doesn't look the same as the infected lager but is unlike what I typically see 3 weeks after...

My 2nd year Cascade plant took off like gang busters this spring. The past week and a half or so I've noticed leaves shriveling and turning yellow. I was reading about all sorts of stuff, nitrogen/potassium deficiencies, aphids, spider mites, mildew...seems these hop plants are delicate...

I've been home brewing for a few years now and have tossed around the idea of getting a couple of hop plants going but hadn't pulled the trigger at this point. I was just on vacation in South Haven, MI this past week which is due west of Kalamazoo on Lake Michigan. While at a u-pick blueberry...

I've been brewing for a little over a year and my first 2 brews were cooper's australian pale ale can kits. I then did one extract batch before switching over completely to all grain with BIAB. My beers continue to get better as I've dialed in my process. I set back a couple of my coopers...

Just thought I'd post my experience here since I've seen several conversations about how long sanitizers last once mixed and stored as I've wondered the same things myself. I've had 1 gallon of star-san mixed up for 10 or 11 months and have used it on several batches, so I thought I better...

1st-didn't turn out so well, low efficiency(63%), too many unfermentables, too sweet, only 3.2% abv(hoffbrau dunkel clone) 2nd-much better, double milled grain at LHBS, 73% Eff, hit temps, great flavor...really nice beer(amber ale) 3rd-used my own mill(corona style), 78% eff, hit temps...

I got a recipe from a friend that was actually something she found from her late father. It is what he called in the recipe a "fruit brandy" but since no distilling is done I assume it is technically a fruit wine. He makes no distinction in the recipe as to what yeast to use, but here is the...

Last weekend I ended up with around 63% efficiency and just under 4.5gallons of wort. This time we got around 73% maybe as high as 75%(hard to tell exactly what my volume is since the marks on the brew pail aren't right). Probably about 5.3gallons this time with an OG of 1.051 Here's the...

I've only done 2 coopers kits, one all extract non kit brew and my buddy and I decided to try BIAB. Here's what we did thanks to much info on this site. We were going for a hoffbrau dunkel with this. Grains/Hops: 5.5lbs Pilsner malt 3lbs Munich malt .25lbs Chocolate malt .25lbs...

Here's my next batch info: (only my 4th batch, so I'm still pretty green here) 3.3 lbs light LME 2 lbs amber DME 1 lb 120L Crystal malt .5 lb corn sugar 1 oz Chinook 1 oz Cenntenial(using instead of Cascade this time...LHBS didn't have any) Notti yeast I guess I'm not really...

I'm a total noob, but thought I'd post this as an FYI. I know the Nottingham discussion has been going on since September, but I'm always a little late to the party:) I've brewed 2 coopers australian pale ale kits for my first 2 brews. They both turned out really well and I was impressed to...

last month I brewed a coopers australian pale ale kit and it turned out better than I could have imagined for a $35, 51 bottle batch. I just started another of the same kit last night. First time I used 1lb of DME and about 1/2 lb of dextrose with the can. This time I used a full 2lbs of...

Last Wednesday I started my first brew. It is a Coopers Australian Pale Ale kit and I used 1lb LME and around 8 or 9oz dextrose. It was about 78 degrees when I pitched yeast and settled in around 74-75 for the fermentation. It bubbled like mad from early Thursday into Sat. when it quickly...