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I packaged some beer from the main keg to a mini keg for a camping trip. When I tapped it a couple days later it had a very off taste. So much that I dumped it. The funny thing is later when I tapped the main keg it tasted fine. I had done a salted caramel brown not that long ago. I ferment...

was getting some grain out of my stash for brewing this week. I noticed these little bugs. I first thought were tiny ants but looking closer they are not. I had picked up a 55# sack a few months ago at my LHBS since they were liquidating everything. It was just a corner area of the local...

I mash for several hours. like 10 hours most times. I do this since I set my BIAB to mash while I'm sleeping or at work so that my actual brew day is shorter. Granted, most conversion occurs withing the first 20-30 minutes. So I mash at 150' for 10 hours. I'm quite sure I've hit 100%...

My double IPA wort came out a little on the low side IMO. I took some of the wort and added 1/2 pound of DME and heated on the stove until it all dissolved. Then added it back to the fermenter. total volume is 5 gal so should I add about 4 points to my OG? I'm not able to take a second OG...

I've been fermenting and serving in the keg for a year, maybe a bit longer. Recently, I noticed that I guess some of my beers don't drop clear as fast as I think they would or should. I am using a floating dip tube so it's not the bottom yeast cake. It's the floating sediment. I tapped a...

I have lots of saved yeast cake from assorted beers that I have been doing direct pitches (roughly half cup of pure yeast cake) with and not had issues. That said, I am planning to use some belle saison cake to attept to restart an RIS that has stopped far short of expectations. I'm thinking...

Doing another hefe in the keg. Decided to leave the top open for the first couple days in an "open" fermetation style as I beleive it was traditionally done. Granted, an open top keg is not a lot of surface area compared to those shallow and wide vats the Germans, Brits and Belgians use...

Just got my new QDs in. I took them apart to check them out. I found they have no o-ring or any kind of seal like my regular QDs have. I did note that the threads had a "tint" to them. Almost like some kinda light paste or film on the threads. Is this what seals the top cap? Or should...

https://www.whitelabs.com/yeast-single?id=146&type=YEAST&style_type=1 has anyone used this? on what and what were your results? LHBS has some and thinking about trying it.

is there such thing as too little headspace when you fill a keg? I've got a 1.6 gal keg I've been using on camping weekends. I've found if I trim the gas tube flush I can get some more pints in the keg but the head space is now minimal. I'm filling from a 5 gal keg thru the beer post so the...

How long can yeast cake stay at room temps before going bad? Yeast cake in a standard fermentor bucket or carboy? How about yeast cake in a sealed corny keg? I ask because I ferment and serve from the same keg. When a keg goes empty, I currently have to brew another beer immediately or...

Those of you that are saving and re-using your yeast slurry. How much by VOLUME do you pitch? I've been harvesting and reusing yeast for a couple years now...but it's just a guess as to how much to use each time. How much yeast cake do y'all use? Actual volume of settled yeast cake. Pint...

I scored a whole sack of this stuff for cheap thinking it was basically flaked oats. But guess it's not. How would you use this stuff? what kinda beers feature wheat flakes? This is what I googled and it matches what i bought...

I'm going camping this weekend and I'm going to fill some 1.6 gal mini kegs to toss in an ice chest. I usually just fill growlers from the tap but this time I want to have a draft set up for camping. I have some freshly fermented kegs that I want to transfer beer into the mini kegs to take...

planning to build a mini portable keg set up. using two 1.6 gal mini kegs in an old rubbermaid cooler. Wanting a compact co2 source that will fit inside the cooler. It seems the paintball tanks are more popular than the sodastream tanks. From what I can dig up, the paintball tanks are G1/2...

kinda wondering if I have scorched or burnt my wort. It's a recipe I've done 3 times before without issues. very high 1.128 OG RIS. Lots of sparging and thus usually a boil down of a few hours until I reach my "starting" volume to begin my timed 60 min boil. when sampling the wort and again...

Getting ready to dip my toes into the world of Kombucha. Being a long-time brewer who harvests and reuses yeast, I'm loath to buy a SCOBY if I can make one uber cheap. Most everything I've read says must be unflavored. But I get occasional google hits saying flavored is ok, usually...

I've added some lactose during fermentation. The problem is I'm finding conflicting sources on PPG for lactose so I can estimate a "corrected" OG in order to calculate ABV when I reach FG. If I added it before my initial OG reading then it wouldn't matter when calculating ABV at FG. I've...

About to do a pumpkin ale...yes, it's that time again. In the past I've used a can or too in the mash just to honestly say it's a "pumpkin beer". Spices really do all the work. My thoughts this time, what if i just dump a can of pumpkin in the boil instead of the mash? Is there even...

I recently started taking notes on my brewhouse efficiencies using the Berwersfriend.com calculator and I'm getting numbers that I'm having difficulty actually believing. As I continue to refine my various brewing processes...I find that my gravity readings keep going up, causing me to reduce...