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Ive just chanced apon a very large quantity of Mandarina Bavaria hops and I would like any suggestions for what sort of beer I should try them with. I want to avoid Saisons/Hefe's/or a smash beer. Any suggestions very much appreciated.

So Im not that good with water Chemsitry and all that sort of stuff, but I have a keg that I took to a BBQ the other day with a short picnic tap on it. The keg naturally got repressurized over and over while I was there and we didnt finish it. When I got home I decided not to put the keg...

Im not a guru of the BJCP style guidelines, but could someone advise me of a category that a 60%pils 40%wheat WY1056 OG1.054 30IBU would best fit into?

This question is about force carbing in a keg (or multiple kegs) I have seen a lot of info about balancing a line to the tap for serving, but I wanna ask if there is an issue with the pressure needed at the end of a line needed to properly force carb in a keg. My Carbing system has a guage...

Just had a friend drop off some mosaic hops and asked me to put together an IPA recipe for his birthday in 6 weeks time. I have never used these hops and Ive only got 3oz to play with. Probably not enough to do a SMaSH experiment before brewing. Can anyone suggest either a recipe (not a...

I have a bunch of Cornelius Spartan and Super Champion kegs (stamped on the side of the keg) and they always seem to leak small bubbles when I take the gas side off so I decided to order a bunch of replacement poppets from B3 to replace them. I got in the habit of using a chopstick and a hammer...

Guys Can someone advise me on your process to avoid the contnts of my blowoff bucket from being sucked into the fermenter once I hit FG and cold crash the beer? My blowoff bucket is at the same level as the carboy (both on the floor) and obviously the headspace pressure is dropping as the...

So Ive been reading through a number of threads and there is a real healthy and constructive Aircon/chest freezer rivalry going on and I was interested whether anyone has actually used a Chest Freezer as their glycol chiller or whether it always comes back to how little BTU's they actually have...

I have an oaked double IPA that has been sitting in the keg on CO2 @3degC @16PSI for almost 3 weeks and there is barely a bubble in the beer. I have purpposefully force overcarbed the beer to 3vols with the intention of going into bottles (my standard procedure) to account for the loss due to...

In another thread I have been complaining about a skunky sort of aroma in multiple beers that doesnt seem to translate to the flavor at all. The only real commonality between them all is that Im using gelatin to clear out my lighter colored beers. In order to confirm this Ive just used PVPP...

Before I go and infect my fridge, can anyone advise on how to kill Brett that may be airbone in the blowoff bubbles if I innoculate purposefully with brett? I figure the bubbles that reach the surface will have "some" airborne brett in it as well as normal blowoff gasses..... thanks

Can anyone advise me of why this would happen. It has happened in the last 2 batches, the last one I split and dry hopped one and left the other without dry hops. The one without the dry hops actually exhibited MORE skunk but it tasted wicked good. Both batches AG have different malt/hop (one...

Has anyone got any tried and true recipe hop pairings for a pale ale using motueka? There are a heap of recipes using this hop w cascade, but I really want to aviod cascade cos I use it in just about every recipe I make I've researched a bit and come up w Amarillo and simcoe, any other...

Guys, I want to make a super light colored American Blonde/Pale ale and need a few opinions as to some issues. Im looking at a 2-3SRM in color. Ive never done anything so light so Im looking at using pilsner malt and some flaked wheat or jasmine rice. I know it shouldnt make any...

Has anyone tried Fish Gelatin for fining beer in the keg vs Beef Gelatin in the keg??? Is there any flavour carryover and is one better than the other? I have found that there is a slight flavour carry over in beef gelatin. Any advice is appreciated.

Some time ago i gave away bottling and went to kegs, however for a multitude of reasons (keeping justification short) Ive decided to go back to bottles but 330ml/12oz in size but keep fining/dryhopping/force carbing the beer in cornys. The problems im facing is that once the beer is carb'd up...

Guys, I know Mr Malty has a yeast pitching rate calc for slurry, but the batch i put in last night, i have obviously over pitched cos it blew the blowofftube out of the fermenter within 3 hours. My Mr Malty pitchingrate was based off the harvest date, and then woken up in the morning with...

Just wanna know what everyones preference in terms of another hop that goes well with Centennial other than Cascade. Im looking to make an American Blonde/Light Pale for the "Leadup to Xmas BBQ's" and cant make up my mind what to pair it with. I have almost 2kg of Cent in the freezer that I...

I have a few beers in kegs at the moment in storage @ 57F and I was wondering, untouched, how long would I expect the Dry Hop characters in the beer to last as a generalization? I know Stone recommend that the freshness of thier beers is about 90 days? And if it dissipates (which I know it...

About 4 months ago i asked a brewer friend of mine to buy me 2x25kg bags of malt from Muntons in preparation for a bunch of brews I was going to do. 1 wheat and the other a pilsner. I put them in my coolroom for storage and since then had a car accident and broke a few major bones, so havent had...