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Hey so ive been researching water profiles and adjusting water. My last beer i brewed i started with distilled and built my water from that with brewers friend software. Ill probably use bru’n water next time though. Its more detailed. Anyway im interested in skipping the step of going to...

So last night my wife wanted to throw out our toaster oven which hasnt had any problems at all. She got a different style toaster and i guess the old one wasnt very clean? Idk anyway it works fine and i started looking at it before taking it out and was like man i wonder if i could take it apart...

Never used lupulin powder before but im very intrigued. I know they are mainly used for dry hopping and flameout/whirlpool additions. So i just got 2 oz of powder for next to nothing. So im trying to figure out what i should do with the lupulin powder. Any suggestions? I was thinking about doing...

First time using clarity ferm. It's been over a week since it was brewed. Fermentation has died down, krausen is gone, but I got this weird yeast looking stuff floating on top. Could it be from the clarity ferm?

I got over 4 oz of hops from my hop plants. First harvest from June I got .7 oz cascade .5 oz chinook Then I just cut down my cascade because one of the bines dried up and got .3 oz dried up cascade (still smells good, lost its color) 2.1 oz cascade (after drying) About 10 cones of centennial...

One of the bines on my cascade plant dried up and died. The hops on the bine have also dried lost their color but still have yellow lupulin. Can they still be used? As long as they don't smell bad they are fine to use right? I'm gonna pick them and put them in the freezer till I can brew with...

So I have two tapright regulators from homebrewsupply.com i guess the goal was to have two regulators connected to one Co2 tank. I was trying to remove the tank connector nipple from the second regulator so I could attach the two regulators inline and have two kegs that could carb or serve at...

Temp got up to 80 today in sc. I started thinking man I wonder when my hops are going to break ground. I checked tonight when I got home and I got two with new growth breaking ground and it's not even march. These are second year plants and I have 4. I think it's the cascade and centennial...

Hey guys I'm starting this thread for Columbia and Lexington area brewers to meet and discuss all things brewing! How many of you guys are out there?

So I've done extract and all grain and biab. I just don't have a lot of time to brew so I'm doing an extract brew that I put together. I'm just wondering what everyone thinks about this recipe I've formulated and if anyone thinks it's not going to be as good as I think it will. I love ipas and...

So I brewed a batch of northern brewers plinian legacy. I left it in primary for exactly 4 weeks and added first dry hops about 5 days before I racked to secondary then racked onto the second dry hop addition. I filled the 5 gallon carboy up because it wasn't fermeting in primary anymore. Here's...

Ok. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. I thought I'd get a few other opinions from people that know more than me because I can't really find much info on this. Ok so I was thinking about making a gallon of cider with 1 pound clover honey and then making a 3 gallon batch of regular...

I made a gallon of plain mead a few months ago here's the notes I have Sept 6, 2015 Mead, OG 1.130, d47 yeast, 3 lbs wildflower honey, yeast nutrient and energizer added Racked* at 3 weeks 1.030 and topped off with water Oct 22 racked at 1.014 Now it's probably about time to bottle soon I...

So I just finished bottling a pale ale. I I was going to use fizz drops but they were all melted together when I opened it. I could barely get the whole thing to come out the container. I decided to melt the whole thing in water and just use it as priming sugar. Couldn't hurt right? Well I did...

So I just started making yeast starters for my beer. I recently had a gallon of cider I made that wouldn't carbonate. I guess because all the yeast dropped out and I bottled it after 3 weeks without a starter. It may be just because it's cider but that experience got me worried about my beer not...

The moment when you realize you are about to have 18 gallons of alcohol fermenting in your closet. There is 2, 5 gallon beer batches, 1 gallon mead, almost a gallon of cyser, and a gallon of cider I made last night. Made my yeast starter last night and about to brew another 5 gallon batch of...

Hey so I'm kind of new to brewing. I have made a few ciders and a few meads and a few beers. I have had more luck with the beers lol. Anyway I wanted to make a high alcohol cyser. So I used ec-1118. My starting gravity was 1.122. It's been 2 weeks. I only have about 3/4 of a gallon of liquid in...