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I'm using home grown hops from last season on a beer tonight. These were picked, placed in vacuum bags and vacuum-sealed, then stored in a freezer up until now. First question - does anybody see a problem with that or a reason I should not use them? Somewhere else suggested fresh hops are...

Morning HBT, I've decided (after cashing out my keg Tuesday) that it's time to get something bubbling in the basement ASAP. Kind of broke at the moment, but I have a lot of leftovers from other beers in my man cave. Here's what I have laying around: 5# red wheat 3 or 4# light munich...

Citra Otter SMaSH IPA All Grain 5gal batch 5.5% ABV 85 IBU Mash: 12.5qt water brought to 163 deg F. 10# Maris Otter 60 min (goal temp 151 deg F) Sparge: 3.8gal water @ 168 deg F Boil: 60 min - 1oz Citra 15 min - 1oz Citra 10 min - 1oz Citra 05 min - 1oz Citra Yeast...

Kegged my DFH120min IIPA, and it's clogged the hell out of it. Gas is full, connected properly. Beer out line is connected properly. Checked for leaks (first thing and last thing), nothing - it's holding pressure just fine. Some trub pulled in my siphon so I've already learned a valuable...

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/kegging/kegging-systems/5-gallon-systems/brew-logic-single-tap-draft-system-w-pin-lock-keg.html Should be here Wednesday, I bought the system while debating how to carb up my 2012 120min IPA - figured what the hell, it was long overdue. Came with: - One Pin Lock...

Happy Beer drinking MF'n Friday HBT!! My 2011 batch of DFH120, I attempted to carb this up in bottles using a priming solution and it was that day I learned that uber-alcohol brew tends to wipe out the straggling yeast - I can't remember the % off the top of my head but it was right at or...

I found this around the internet and thought I would share the recipe here, I love Franziskaner Hefe and it's my wife's favorite beer so if this turns out even remotely close to the actual brew there's a pretty much guarantee it will be pipelined around my place - if not, it still looks like a...

Haha.. Yeah. So I had a (clearly, without any doubt) lacto infection on my Sunday IPA, went ahead and bottled it up anyway. Despite the infection which made it to the bottles (if you hold one up to the light you can see the film layer formed at the crest of the liquid in the bottle neck)...

Grains / Fermentables: 8.0# Marris Otter 1.0# Crystal Malt 20L 0.5# Cara-Pils Single infusion mash: 60 min @ 151.0 deg F (Bring 11.90 (12qt) water to 163.0 deg F to achieve mash temp - equals 1.25 water / grain ratio) Sparge: 3.90gal water @ 168.0 deg F 60 minute full boil (added 1tsp Irish...

I did a pumpkin ale, used a harvested notti for the yeast. It was only 2 gallons so I used my gooood old mr beer keg. Took a look today and it's clearly infected - note the mid/bottom part of the photo where the light was reflecting, you can see between the rafts. Towards the back where I...

Decided to brew this last minute, I'm mid mash right now. I put my own recipe together, mostly based off reading all of the pumpkin topics that were around last month. 2.5 gal batch 3# us 2row 2# marris otter 0.5# Crystal 20 Mash(ing) at 151 for 60 min, I added a 15oz can of Libby's 100%...

Exactly as the title says.. I bought a 3lbs can of Apricot puree from NB for my Aprihop clone earlier this year, they shipped me blueberry instead. I called, they immediately sent my apricot again however told me to keep the blueberry for the hassle. Grabbing popcorn the other day, there it...

Brewed my first lager Saturday, pitched Wyeast 2112 California Lager - pitched at exactly 70 degrees which for this yeast was a little bit high however I placed the bucket directly into my beer fridge which was sitting at about 42 degrees, the temp was correct within no time at all (I had...

We picked our first year Columbus hops yesterday and though this year they were not supposed to give us anything, we ended up getting roughly 3/4 an ounce. Obviously this is not a lot of hops having to add 5 times the amount of fresh to match the effect of your store bought dry therefore I...

Basically I skinned an organic granny smith and put the shavings in a jar of apple juice with some yeast nutrient a couple days ago.. I was expecting action in a couple weeks maybe, nope; it's going freaking nuts now! Heres my issue, fuzzy white patches have formed on the liquid where the...

Don't have a picture or video yet so you'll have to visualize this for yourself.. I took a gallon of Eckert's supposedly "organic" apple cider and added a 1/2lbs of dextrose to it, some yeast chow, pectic enzyme, and a packet of montrachet yeast, all was combined and mixed well before I pitched...

Needed to vent about this one.. So we're brewing up a couple 1 gal batches this past Friday for a hop experiment, I currently brew everything in the house on our stove, our massive Maytag Microwave is mounted above it and houses a hood range below with a fan, light, etc... Commonly I...

So it's entirely possible that Mrs. Jsmith will not be able to drink alcohol for the next nine months if you catch my drift :D I thought it would be cool if I could pipeline a sparkling apple cider for her but I'm really having issues finding a recipe or methods for carbonating apple juice...

This was intended to be lawnmower beer, very very light. 9lbs grain bill on 5 gallons, bavarian blend yeast, saaz and tett, and for the hell of it, 8 navel oranges steeped in a tea like the Blood Orange Hefe.. I wanted to really bring out that orange flavor! Well... It's definitely orange...

Let's start by stating I have 9 days off in a row starting Saturday, time to brew some beers! :mug: Long story short, I've decided first up on deck will be a Maris Otter / Centennial SMaSH IPA (first time using both). Starting off with a normal hop schedule, I toyed with the idea of hopping...