Search results

hi everyone, newbie mead maker here, i have been brewing beer for many years now and i know that the reason we propagate beer yeast with barley based wort is because yeast has to be propagated in the same media that will be pitched because this will "preparate" the yeast for a maximum...

Hi everybody this is the second time it happens, fermentation has stoped and this thick "krausen" layer apears on top is not foamy, is harder and compact than normally, beer has a odd flavor and smell that increases with time becoming undrinkable, is not soury is more like strong fermented...

hi everyone, my last 2 batches of IPAs had turned practically into amber ales, they have lost any sight of hops no flavor and no aroma at all, they not taste bad just they taste diferent, they taste "caramelier" and they color is darker just like a amber ale, is not my first time making IPAs...

Hi guys, first time doing sours and i'm about brew a kettle sour and use grain starter to sour it, 3 days and it looks like this, the grain smells really nice, sweet, grainy with little notes of sour like rice wine smell is it good? Or should i dump it?

Hi guys hope everyone is ok, this is my first rig building, is this water pump position ok? Or it has to be horizontal? (Cable tie just for presentation purposes)

hi guys, i'm planning in make a 1bbl brew house and i've found these used Stainless steel 200 lts barrels for just $150.00 dlls each with shipping included they contained fruit concentrate so i think they're good to make beer, but i know that not all stainless are equal so, what do you think...

Hi guys, been doing homebrew for almost 6 years now, some for my friends, for my wife even for my mom, and obviously for myself but i never have done one specially for me to drink in christmas season i always end drinking what i have available or even buying commercial bottles, but i don't know...

I recently tried a pint of Belching Beaver Deftones Phantom Bride IPA and i fell in love with it, is fairly sweet and has a full hop flavor and aroma with very little bitterness and 7.1% A.B.V., with very pale color more like a blonde ale it says that has a blend of citra, amarillo, simcoe and...

hi guys i'm planning on brew my first sour beer, and as i live in a town with a lot of vineyards around is easy for me to get my hands on some varieties of wine grapes so i decided to try some in my recipe, but some questions come to my mind as they are not tipical freezed pasteurized fruits...

HI guys i recently did a batch of coffee stout basically was a base stout recipe, and added just before kegging 4 liquid oz of coldbrew in a ratio of 1 oz of comercial canned coffee per 1oz of water and let it sit overnight in fridge, to my taste it needed a whole lot more of coffee smell and...

Some years ago i used to play a MMORPG called WoW and in the game a Dwarf gives you a quest where you have to find okra to brew a special beer, back in those days i didn´t knew a sh**t how beer was made but now it came to my mind and i decided to search for a recipe that had okra in it logically...

Hi guys i have 2 mason jars with yeast in fridge one lager s-23 and wheat wb-06 i accidentaly left my brew fridge open by an inch overnight and didn't sealed properly today morning i went to take out some stuff from fridge and caugth my atention that the wheat yeast jar was too cloudy as it has...

Hi guys i´m building my first keezer on a budget and i received a very nice pair of 5 pounds Co2 extinguishers from a friend for free and i´m planning on replacing the original valve for one i can connect to a regulator i searched over the web and i found on amazon this two...

Hi everybody i'm starting a rhizomes planting in pots project, based on some hydrophonic techniques, i bought some assorted rhizomes varieties to try in my area (7 in total) from AHB, y received 2 a couple weeks ago and planted them right after, now they're growin great one is like 3 inches...

Hi everyone I normally take some wort for starters when i finish sparging on each brew, then boiling and reducting to esterilize and achieve desired 1.030 O.G. but sometimes with long time boiling i finish with very low wort like a liter or less per bbatch , so i'm thinking in make a batch just...

Hi guys i did my first lager, a Rauchbier everything went smooth as always, fermented with saflager W-34/70 at 12c 'till gravity was 1.022, the diacetyl rest for 3 days, F.G. was 1.011 then racked to secondary and laggered for 2 months at 1C then sampled and it was delicious and bottled, at 2...

Hi Guys, i have some malts and hops leftovers from 2017 and i want to make a beer for my wife's birthday in 4 more weeks just with what i have in stock because there's no time to order more ingredients (i buy everything online) i'm thinking in a beer that will be ready in about 4 weeks so no...

Hi everyone i'm about to make my first lager (a rauchbier:rockin:)in a couple of weeks more, once i take out my dunkelweizen out of the fermentation chamber, but in my last order i just bought 1 pkg of saflager w-34/70 and when i read the instructions says that is good for 10 to 15 litres only...

Hi everyone i did this yeast starter last thursday for my brew in saturday, from a washed yeast of last batch that was like 2 months ago, i put just a pinch of yeast nutrient and i left it in the stir plate for about two hours because i thought yeast was too old and may be it needed more oxigen...

hi guys after 1 year using ice bath for wort chilling i've just finished my mutant double coil copper chiller i said mutant because it looks like a weird magic mountain attraction with a lot of curves and upside downs :cross: after almost 2 hours battling with the copper tubing(imagine a fight...