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Thanks for the reply. I was honestly thinking of doing that. If fermentation were to "restart" what would the potential hazards be?

Hey All - I have some questions about my first cider. 4 weeks ago I made my first cider - simple recipe of 5 gallons of store bought apple juice and some Belle saison yeast. It's ready to keg, but i want to back sweeten half of it to see what I like better . Kegging the current dry cider is...

Do you back sweeten this at all or just go straight to the keg with it ?

Thanks for the replies. I set the psi at serving pressure and it has been getting better and better.

Hello all, Just made the jump to kegging and kegged a pumpkin brown ale 5 days ago. Force carbed it by putting the psi to 14 and rolling the keg back and forth for 10 minutes. I left the psi after the first two days at about 8-10, degassed 5-6 times. The beer has been tasting great, but just...

excellent thanks!

Hey all, Gathering everything to build a keezer. Im looking to have a 3 line manifold to have 3 taps. I see homebrewing.org has 3/8'' manifolds, and kegconnection.com has 3/16 and 5/16. I figure I should pick a size and stick with it (getting disconnects, extra lines, etc). Just...

I use a IC to chill my wort w an ice bath. It's great for getting the wort down to 100 degrees F very quick, but it takes forever to get it down to pitching temps. I've read that DMS is greatly reduced if you can just get it below 140 quickly. So to save time and water, couldn't I just get it...

Bottled this beer back on 12/11 using 1 cup of corn sugar. Batch size was 5.5 gallons and my carbonation is consistent but it's still rather flat with just a quarter inch head that dissipates quickly. Taste is great just wish there was a bit more carbonation. Anyone else have experience...

Hey all, Making an IPA this weekend and want to make a hop schedule with the hops i have available. Here is the recipe: Batch: 5.5 g SG: 1.063 12# US 2-row 1# crystal 20L 12oz Vienna WLP001 I have 4 oz cascade pellets, 2 oz centennial and 1 oz Northern brewer. Not looking...

I did my 3rd all grain batch a few days ago and ill add my input: First 2 batches went excellent, hit all my gravities and volumes right on the nose. The other day I tended to be a little rushed with my sparging and my efficiency was down to 65%. What I did notice was I did not stir mash...

excellent! will be brewing next sunday so i'll whip one up next thursday after i get home from work. thank you

thanks! makes perfect sense to me now. How long before brewday would you make the starter? for instance if I was going to brew on a sunday morning, when is a good time to make the starter?

i have been looking to make a starter for the first time, relatively new brewer here. all the info i have seen is regarding using a stir plate and i have some questions regarding not using one. i will be using a 1 g glass carboy. So basically i understand ill be making 1.5-2 l starter...

Thanks for all the info. I did this Saturday mashed at 154 for 60 min w 5 g of strike water... Sprayed until i got about 7.5 90 min boil ended up w 5.5 in the fermenter w an og of 1.053. Pretty furious fermentation so far and smelled real good! Ill let u know how it turned out

I'm doing all grain and I've checked and rechecked all the settings and its stuck at 4.9 abv. Recipe is identical in beer smith without cocoa powder but I don't think that'd be the difference?

Beersmith is giving me 4.8% abv. Any idea how to boost this up a bit? still new to brewing

im loving his tap handles out of the wall.. has me thinking

if your using just extract, boil 2-3 gallons of water, add the extract while its heating up, then add hops accordingly once it reaches full boil. as your using extract, your gravity should be fine regardless of whether you add the entire 5 g prior to the boil or just boil 2-3 gallons and add...

Definitely get the book. I bought a "used" copy online shipped for my door for about 8 bucks. used copies have the same amount of words as the new copies!! I would just read a chapter or so every day on my lunch break at work. Ive been brewing a few months and just converted to all grain...