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If beer clarity or long term stability isn't a concern for you than I personally wouldn't worry about cloudiness. If you plan on dry hopping that will also add cloudiness anyway. I personally believe that trying to get a nice dry hop into a beer and at the same time being overly concerned about...

To me it would be really strange if he had male hop plants. I don't think it's even possible he could have accidentally got male hop rhizomes when he got his rhizomes. Male plants don't produce any lupulin or seeds. Female plants produce lupulin unless they're in the presence of male plants. In...

If you move the small hop leaves out of the way to try and get a look at the core of the cone, you should see the lupulin glands. They'll look like very small yellow balls. If they arent there the only thing I can think is that they were harvested too soon or they didnt produce lupulin. The only...

Give the fermenter a few good whacks or shakes and those yeast rafts should break up and sink to the bottom.

I wouldn't say it's hopeless but I've been trying to clone that beer for 3 batches and I came nowhere even close. My last attempt I used 14 oz of hops in a 5.5 gal batch and I still didn't even approach the level of grapefruitiness they seem to accomplish with that beer. If I had to guess I'd...

I'm brewing a Belgian Strong Golden ale right now and was wondering when I need to add my sugars into the boil. Insights?

I'm not understanding why this clone recipe has rye in it when the recipe for The Substance doesn't? Rye is dark and flavorful and if you're trying to clone a recipe which originally has no rye then you're not even gonna come close. Bissell Brothers lists flaked oats, wheat, and barley along...

My 2 cents, with respect: I would use WAY more hops. I honestly don't think you'll come close to a hoppy beer with less than 10oz total. Cut that crystal in half. Use magnums for your bittering hop. There's no reason to use an awesome/pricey hop like Galaxy for bittering. Any unique flavor they...

Just re-read a package of s-05. Definitely says "sprinkle into wort". So anyway as I was saying.... i pitched dry yeast and got about 85-90% attenuation I don't really understand how you're saying I'm just making beer all willy nilly. Got 8.1% abv out of that batch so get bent. I will continue...

It says on the package of S-05, pitch directly into wort. I personally dont use dry yeast anymore but i'm getting tired of people harping on about re-hydrating dry yeast when the scientists that create it don't think you should. Last time I used s-05 I pitched dry at 1.074 and finished at 1.011...

Not so long ago (like 3 weeks) in a galaxy very close (the milky way). I attempted to brew a clone of Flower Power from Ithaca brewing. I failed completely at said task... I did however subsequently create a nearly identical clone to Fresh Squeezed IPA from Deschutes. While this was clearly not...

My 2 pennies: I've never had this beer but I was looking at pictures of it and if I were going to try to duplicate that color I wouldn't use anything but pale malt and maybe less than 10% vienna, and the carapils. I wouldn't use british ale yeast unless I were kegging. And I wouldn't use s05...

I just read a recipe where someone was suggesting pitching a 32 Liter yeast starter for 15 gallons of beer.... I realize that 15 gallons of 1.094 beer would require a lot of yeast however. 32 Liters by my math would be about 8.5 gallons....... Is this person actually suggesting pitching 8.5...

Finishing high either means 1-Not enough yeast/yeast wasn't healthy 2-Yeast wasn't at the right temp to complete fermentation 3-You didn't have enough fermentable sugar which could be the result of several things.

It's the yeast. You're fine. I fart a lot anyway so I never really noticed a difference when I started drinking homebrew.....

Allright.... so I just recently brewed a pretty big ipa with a lot of hops and used pellets. I ended up with a huge amount of sludge/break material. Do people just put the whole brew into the fermenter, sludge and all and hope it drops out? I got way better hop flavor and aroma with pellets...

u think it was lacto?

I was gonna say just fill your tank at U-Haul.... But then I saw that you're in Spain so....:o

My vote is bad crush. I feel like lots of shops have their mill set a little too big. My first AG batch came up short and I'm positive that was the cause.

I had a 5 I was gonna use for my first 5 gallon AG batch. My grain bill was 17#. When I put the dry grain in the 5 gal it literally filled the whole thing. So I went out and got a 48 qt coleman from Dick's Sporting Goods for $20 (best price trust me). I use a stainless piece from a water supply...