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Disclaimer: I’m buzzin’ This is hilarious! I put my yeast starter with an airlock in my chest freezer to cool down from 85 deg F (yikes) and now it’s at 77ish. The change in temperature caused a negative pressure in my erlenmeyer Flask! The airlock is now sucking in Oxygen! I find this...

So I switched to all grain brewing and I made a 15gal mash tun out of a wheeled square cooler because I want to have the potential to make 10gal batches. The other day I tasted a milk stout and loved it! So now I wanna make a 2.5gal keg of it. So that would be a ~4gal boil. Can I use my mash...

So right when I was ready to give up on stouts. I tried Guinness dry stout, a peanut butter milk stout (too overwhelming in my opinion) I didn’t want to be spending money on beers I’m forcing myself to like (because I want to like at least one beer per style). I found Garage brewery Marshmallow...

Hey all, So my saison recipe calls for “American - Carapils (Dextrin Malt)” and I went to my LHBS and they didn’t have Carapils as a grain but they had Malto Dextrin and it looks exactly like DME or Dextrose. I was wondering if these to are the same. And if so what is the ratio between the two.

So after my mash, my preboiled wort looks like a nice black tea, just colored water when I’m taking the SG reading. I noticed however after the boil, the whirfloc addition, and chilling(ice bath) my wort was very murky and had a lot of suspended solids. I was wondering is this proteins or does...

So i've been researching water chemistry stuff and i have a rough gist of it BUT my question is how do i lower the pH mash to 5.2 I see everywhere 5.2 is ideal, my second question is do i make my strike water 5.2 or do i make my pre boil 5.2? I'm confused! I attached water calls that i did on...

Hi all! So I want to fine my beer by cold crashing and using Gelatin in my secondary fermentor. After I prime the beer and bottle how do I store the bottles? Can I store them at room temp? or once I've set the beer to a low temperature I can't rise it again? Also if I prime it at a cold...

So my first batch of cider was delicious-ish BUT i didn't know how dry it would go. OG 1.060 FG 0.9 so thats about 21% alcohol. I drank a small glass and instantly got a head ache, my girlfriend also got a headache. We both had my wine before, that was about 12%. Is it the alcohol content? Is it...

When I started buying my equipment, I figured I wasn't going to buy a kit, I was going to make it! but then i started calculating the cost, I was going to save to save about $10 if i make my fermentation buckets, so instead i just bought individual things to make a kit. I figured "well...

I found a recipe for a mango ipa and it says 1lb of caramel malt for steeping and 9lb of DME. The steeping grain efficiency is 25%. Question 1: Is “Steeping” the same as Partial Mashing? If not how do they differ (I know partial mash, not steeping) Assumption: I assume not because the...

I want to start kegging, but have no idea what are the correct equipment I need? I plan to purchase used kegs on craigslist for under $50each (is this a bad idea?). I know I need a co2 tank(not sure on the size) and a regulator of some sort(not sure if it is specific). I don't know the sizes of...