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I've got a saison, using Wyeast French Saison yeast. The FG is 1.001. Should I adjust anything at bottling? More or less priming sugar, or additional malt?

here's the main question: I've heard of add yeast at bottling. Pitching a packet of dry notthinghams. Why does this not create bottle bombs? My story: I've got a 9.3%abv brew made with WL belgian yeast. This stuff takes forever to carbonate in bottle. If I pitch in some nottinghams dry yeast...

I've poured wort onto a yeast cake once or twice before and it's worked fine. What I heard was, to re-use yeast, ferment the smaller beer first, then pour the bigger beer onto the cake. Any problem pouring a wort that will be about 6.5% onto a yeast cake for an 8% beer?

I prefer beers on the less sweet side. Palate wise, I'm a west coast hop-head. My 'big beer' ends up too sweet. It's about 7lbs light DME, and around 3lbs grains, crystal 10s - 40s. And I use White labs Cali Pale Ale yeast. Even if I hit 1.090 OG the yeast usually takes it down to 1.020 -...

I'm going on a 3 day canoe trip down the Buffalo National River. I'm pretty sure there's a no glass rule on the river and need to send requests to my buddy there who will be doing the beer shopping. Any suggestions on good beer, dare I say, in cans, around there? I'm near 21st Amendment...

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I just bottled one 22oz of a 10.4% brew, using 8 carbtabs. Will that work? Are carb tabs relative to ABV%? A month ago I had some flat pliny the younger (ABV 11%) and tried to re-carbonate it with the ctabs and that didn't work...

I've got a "big honkin' brew" in my primary. OG was 1.094 and I hope to get it down to 1.020ish. It's coming along fine, still bubbling about every 45 seconds. It's been in there for over 3 weeks. I'm eager to brew a different batch, but it's my only 6.5 gallon carboy, so I'm thinking about...

Got jokes? The Drunkard's Wish A drunk is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees an old lamp. He picks it up and rubs it. Out pops a genie. The genie says, "I will give you three wishes." The man thinks awhile. Finally he points his swaying finger and slurs, "I want a beer that is never...

Beer jokes. Beer fart jokes? Anyone got any good jokes? Ya i know it's a stretch to have this posted as a thread, but beer farts are real. Plus, it's Friday. The drunkard's Wish A drunk is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees a lamp at the end of the table. He walks down to it and...

I took a reading the other night after just after I pitched. I got a reading of 1.094. I had just poured in the wort, added about a quart of water, and didn't really mix it. I thought the reading was high. There was a lot of sediment in my hydrometer tube and I'm wondering if that offset it...

I've got a batch chugging away in fermentation now. I made up the recipe and got a higher OG than I thought. The first night I took a reading and it was 1.095 which I thought was high. I took another the next day after swirling things around and it was 1.086. I pitched White labs Cali Pale yeast...

I forgot to add my whirlfloc tablet in my boil. I pitched last night and fermentation has not started. What to do?

I brewed a belgian ale kit. I modified it with extra oats and wheat and hops and a tiny bit of cinnamon. At bottling I split it into 3 separate batches. Some I bottled plain. Then I filled a 3 liter bottle and added lactose to sweeten and apples. Then I added 2 oz blackberry extract from my LHBS...

My first batch is a stout. It's been in the bottle for about 4 weeks, and still tastes like crap. It's really perfumey and nasty. I did modify the recipe. It was a kit recipe for a stout. I added 2.25 oz of vanilla extract at bottling. I used 2 quarts 100% pure apple juice in addition to top...

When do I add lactic acid? In the boil? In the chilled wort? In the cold water before the boil?

I just made a Pliny the Elder clone. It's only my second batch ever. Thought everything went okay but I ended up with an OG of 1.049, when the recipe's is 1.074. What might I have done wrong? I ended up with 4+ gallons of wort so I added 1 gallon water to make the 5glns. I used a 32 quart...

It's my first batch and I used a kit recipe. I also added 2lbs of corn sugar with the malts in the boil. And when going into the carboy I used 2 quarts of 100% apple juice along with water to make a 5 gallon batch, so I can't use the recipes' FG. After a day I attached a blow off tube. Tonight...

I can get Pliny the Elder, Blind Pig IPA, on draft and in bottles, and Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Stone IPA and more! And I just started brewing two days ago. Will I ever drink my own? ... Hell ya! I started Saturday night, Dec 6. I made wort for a stout, added in an extra 2lbs of corn...