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Has anyone found (from Amazon or whoever) a false bottom / grille that fits in the 6.5? I’ve been putting my grain bag inside my malt pipe, but would like to do away with malt pipe and use a false bottom. Thanks!

Hey all - I’m trying to brew a couple year-end extract batches on Brewfather and I’m having issues with the “steeping” steps not showing up when I go to start a brew batch. When I click the brewing tab, I had hoped to see the series of steps that instruct me to heat the water to X degrees and...

Looking for opinions/experience. As I understand (from brewing techniques texts), it is not necessary to mash Crystal grains and dark grains (chocolates, roasted barley, grains above 80 or so lovibond). Actually, I was surprised to find out that you shouldn’t mash your darker grains, as you...

Made a batch of Uncle Fezziwig 11 days ago; it took about 24 hours to see any activity through my blowoff tube, but then it went to town. Didn't have a great amount of headspace in my mini brew bucket (a little over 20%, and I definitely blew some krausen into the blowoff bottle. After about...

Thinking about putting together some “beer gifts” to my golfing buddies. Have the bottle labels picked out, but looking for bottle carriers. Could easily re-use commercial carriers, but would like to use plain or my own labeled carriers, if I can find them. Anyone seen them or know where I...

Getting ready to brew some Brown Ale and Stout and have read some info lately (including “Brewing Better Beer Master Lesson...”), and they talked about leaving Crystals and Dark Grains out of the mash and just adding them in and steeping, to avoid potential astringency and harshness in the...

Does anyone know of or has anyone used a dry yeast for a Witbier? Yeast plays a definite role in this style, but getting a liquid yeast delivered to me here in Houston Area is tricky with the hot temps we have. Dry ice doesn’t seem to do it. Thanks!

All, After many extract brews, going to be starting my first all grain brew shortly, and have a question on how to set up my recipe in Brewer's friend. I am starting with 2.5 gallon batch size primarily because I am limited on boil size due to my Gigawort electric brew kettle (4.4 gal...

All, After many extract brews, going to be starting my first all grain brew shortly, and have a question on how to set up my recipe in Brewer's friend. I am starting with 2.5 gallon batch size for a couple reasons, but one primary reason is that I am limited on boil size due to my Gigawort...

Hi All! After several extract batches, and getting bored of its effect on my brew color and taste, I have decided to make the jump to All Grain. I'm going to start with 2.5 gal recipes for two reasons; first my only boiling vessel is a 4.4 gallon Gigawert electric brewpot, and second, I...

All - could use some input; here's the scenario: Brewed some IPA about 3 weeks ago, About the end of the second week, I added my pellet dry hops (threw them right into my SS brewbucket). After three days of dry hopping, took a final gravity reading of 1.012, which I was expecting. Time to...

Going to be starting on my first fruit beer (either an Apricot or Cherry Blonde) and plan on keeping everything in my prImary fermenter (SS Brewtech), not bothering with a secondary. My question has to do with how to add the fruit (purée in this case). Should I just add it directly into the...

OK - Santa brought me an immersion chiller, and I’m planning to use it this weekend. But I have a question when it comes to sterilizing it. Normally, for full volume extract boils, the standard instructions say to add the chiller to the wort boil about 10 minutes before flameout, and the...

Ok - getting ready to brew my first beer (a honey ale) that is requiring me to rack off to a secondary after fermentation in the primary. My instructions are clear about the temperature my yeast is looking for in primary, but I’m not sure (instructions aren’t clear) that I need to maintain that...

Only my second "extract" batch, so I'm not sure if anything's wrong (see attached pics). My beer has been fermenting for 16 days, and my gravity reading is 1.013, so it's pretty much done. I sampled it the other day and it didn't taste bad, just a little green (or unfinished). The issue is...

My inaugural homebrew -American Wheat. Might be proud papa, but it tastes gooood!

All - purchased a Ported fermonster from More Beer. The plastic spigot provided comes with one “beveled” washer. Trying to install spigot on Fermonster and can’t figure out whether washer goes on outside of vessel or inside. Does anyone have experience with this? Getting a little leakage...

Hi all, I recently purchased a blonde ale kit, specifying SafaleUS-05 dry yeast as the yeast adder to the kit. When the kit arrived (today), they provided the Safale yeast, but also provided the White Labs liquid yeast packet as well. Is anyone familiar with these two yeasts and provide a...

Hi all - sorry if this is a odd or silly question. I've brewed a couple 1 gal batches of beer using kits from Northern Brewer, and just been following the directions that come with the kit, making some notes as I went along. I'm getting ready to move up to "split" 5 gallon batches (2.5 gallon...

All - Have been brewing 1 gal batches in my 1 gal BMB, and I'm ready to move up on batch size to 2.5 gallon (5 gallon recipe kits split in half. Was looking at picking up the 3 gallon fermonster and was wondering if anyone knows what the total volume a 3 gal holds. (Is it 3 gal or a little...