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I've been brewing a slight variance of BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde that I enjoy. Tonite I'm wanting to try an ode to my Dad brew. He's a bee keeper and sets my family up with all of the honey we can use. This past year he decided to try his hand at growing hops, not because he likes beer...

I had been testing my new setup and left water in the kettle for three days. I noticed some rust forming at the base of my elements. I cleaned off most with vinegar and baking soda, but is that normal? I know I screwed up leaving water in the kettle for that long, but since I use tap water I...

I'm looking for some guidance from some veteran e-brewers. I've been playing with the idea of turning my propane BIAB setup into an electric setup and now I'm toiling between a single-element 220V system and a two element 110V setup. I want to use a PID to control mash temps and my primary...

I've been brewing BIAB, cooling with an immersion chiller, and dumping (no pump) everything from my kettle into the fermenter. After boil, my 5.5 gal batch recipe made 5.5 gals of wort, and it would all go into the fermenter. I've just recently upgraded equipment and now have a valve on my...

I've finally gotten a keezer and fermentation chamber set up to be able to fight one of the biggest problems I see in the homebrew community: Not temperature control, not contamination, but PATIENCE :fro:. With only one temperature controlled box, I've only been able make and drink one batch...

I started brewing with a mini-fridge that barely fit a 5-gal homer bucket, and now have moved into what I'm hoping will be a box big enough to hold four, 6.7-gal buckets. Living in central Florida I don't have the luxury of being able to ferment in the basement. Heck, even 'room temperature' for...

Chalk this up as another 'learning experience.' Last night as I cooling my batch and getting ready to pitch the yeast I was setting up the keezer getting it ready for fermentation. The temperature is set, thermal probe moved over ready to attach to ale pail... and that's when I thought to...

This is my first batch I've kegged and I thought I had it right, but now that I'm halfway through the keg I'm getting really foamy beer. I had everything carb'd up nicely after a week at around 12 psi. and then I went and messed it up. I was cleaning up in the garage and had, for floorspace and...

I'm not going to have a chance to bottle until this coming weekend (about 10 days after brew-day) so this is more of a theoritical question; but I was wondering if it would hurt to go ahead and bottle now that I've reached my FG after three days. I know we're supposed to trust the yeast and...

I'm on my third batch of AG BIAB brewing and I had an unexpected 85% efficiency. I had been doing one-gallon batches, but this time I had enough grain and hops to make a 1.5-gallon batch. On bottling-day I tasted the beer and thought I had some bug get in and I had made a sour - the taste was...

I just started my first batch of mead (JAOM-like) two weeks ago. I just checked on it earlier today and some of the raspberries floating on the surface appear to have clumps of mold on top. Everything smells great, with no rotten smells or anything so I don't plan on dumping it... I was just...

I'm looking to split a 5-gallon batch of mead into smaller gallon batches to try different additional ingredients. Is there any reason that I couldn't go ahead and pitch my yeast and then split the batches, or is it better to split and then pitch?

I had a few questions about specific gravity that I was hoping someone could help me wrap my head around. I see a bunch of people saying that they hit their OG, or were off by a bit. Is that because you have a recipe that says what it should be, or are you figuring it out somehow based on...

My wife quite literally was due this past Thursday, its Sunday night and still no baby, so I figured why wait any longer :) I've been stalking around on the forums here for a few weeks as I soak up as much info as could before finally starting my first all-grain brew (its my second attempt...