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I got a whiskey barrel porter kit from AHBS and I'd like to bump up the OG from 1.063 to around 1.075. Any easy way to do this, like add another pound or two of LME or DME without changing the recipe too dramatically?

I have a chest freezer with temperature controller, great for cold crashing beer to help clear it and compact the trub. I want to do it with a blond ale that finished fermenting, but my freezer also acts as storage for other beer that it still maturing in bottles. I wonder what effect the...

I'm contemplating using a fresh yeast cake for my next batch. I have a blond beer using Wyeast london ale, and I've read this is also a good strain for higher gravity stouts and porters and I want to do a bourbon barrel stout or porter. I've read what I can on this practice but I still have...

I've read that after bottling it's ideal to store your beer at around 70 or so for carbonating and then conditioning. It's summer here in Texas I don't cool my house while I'm at work, and inside it gets to be around 80 degrees. Will storage at those temps negatively affect the tast and/or...

Well, I guess it happens to the beat of us sometimes. It blew the bottom section right off the bottle and the cap is still intact! I thought my fermentation had stalled but it apparently had a mind of its own. Fortunately most of the carnage was contained by the towel underneath the box. I...

I know from reading this great forum that the best way to ensure fermentation is complete is to take gravity reading several days in a row. I also know that exposing beer to oxygen (especially past initial fermentation is not a great thing. I am doing a single stage fermentation in my...

Making a Scottish 80 ale and it's my first time using steeping grains. Today I racked to the secondary and everything looks and smells good. I took a gravity reading but it looks like it's already down to about 1.009 which is lower than it's supposed to be after secondary. Is this normal? Does...

Hey guys, new brewer here. I made a brown ale with an all extract kit. I have had several tastes of the beer and now it has been conditioning in the bottle for about 3 1/2 weeks. Every time I've tasted it, including just now I have a terrible off flavor. It's difficult to describe but it is...