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Hey guys, well i just installed my water filter. its pretty much takes out all ions. so imleft with almost distilled water. its not an ro unit. its by a company called BWT. the water tastes fine when i got it out of the filter. But when i added the minerals to it and tried a sip, it...

Hey guys I decided to experiment with different dry hoping for my apa. So i decided to do small batches and split them up into 2 secondary fermenters, and I will dry hop them different when the time comes. What I did was siphon the beer into one fermenter then I filled up the other...

Hey guys. Im at a loss at the moment hopefully someone can get me straightened out. just started doing mini batches, of about 10L in size to experiment with some recipes... this was my first try, (doing an APA). i calculated my water and recipe to come out to a final volume of 10L. did not...

Hey guys im in Hungary, brewing away, picked up a few ounces of Perle Hopps, but it seems to be an off green almost into a brown color with a faint smell to them... I have yet to brew or encounter all different hop varieties, but this seems a bit old to me if not off just yet.... I mean i...

Hello all. I have been wonder about why my beers take so long to mature. and stay too sour... My biggest problem is that my beers taste very sour! I bottle my beers.... I keep hearing people say 3 weeks at 70...... and I have seen the videos of the guy trying beers at different stages...

well im am trying to crank out some recipes from Jamils book, but a lot of them use crystal 120. the problem is I cant get anything that high in Hungary.. i can get something close to crystal 40, caraboheam which is like crystal 70-80. or special B. what can I due to supplement the...

hello, well I just checked my wheat that has been fermenting in the basement for a raspberry wheat. I was going to go and rack it to secondary and add the raspberry puree, when I noticed that the spigot on the bottom of the plastic bucket had mold on it....!!!!!:eek::eek::eek: I opened the...

Hello. I was just wondering.... after a few batches of beers that I have made, I have yet to see any krausen on top of my beer during fermentation. I do get a thing ring of krausen left, but I have seen all of these pictures on here where people have these thick krausen.. and even needing...

Hello. all. just to let you guys know im abiab guy. I have been switching to all grain for a few batches now about 6. and I cant seem to get my efficiency up when i do the beersmith eff. calculator it always adjusts my efficiency to around 50 percent. I just did a small brew just to see how...

Hello all. I have done exactly 2 all grain brews, so far.... I really enjoyed the process However today i tryed my third batch....and i noticed something was offff. I noticed that beersmith gives be a boil volume that I need to get to my final volume that I would like to have in the end...

I have tryed to put a recipe together for an ESB (american style) in a number of recipe calculators.(extract)... and I just cant seem to get a good IBU. Always too low... I am also not sure which IBU calculation I should use...the three vary quite a bit. Here is what I have.. 5.28 gal...

Hey guys. I have just finished fermenting my first brew , so im ready to start on my second one. I would like to do the ESB (red hook) clone that was posted by MB, and some people have already tried to convert it to extract from all grain. PLEASE take a look and let me know what you think, I am...

Well, this is going to be my very first try at brewing. I ordered a kit, and have read some threads. I basically put the whole process together in my head but just would like to lay it out so the more experienced of you out there could put in your 2 cents and help me out in case im going down...

Hello everyone, just saying Hi. I have decided to step in uncharted territory. I am from Edmonds, Washington, but I am currently working in Budapest, Hungary. My life;s passion is bartending, and cocktails. :off:..but reading about whiskey and other spirits, it has always fascinated me how...