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I recently bought an oxygenation system from northern brewer - tubing, diffusion stone and regulator. I picked up a disposable bernzomatic o2 tank and it all fits together quite nicely. However, when I turn the regulator on, no oxygen flows into my wort. When I unhook the regulator I do get a...

Hi All - looking for feedback/hints/tips for this brew. Shooting for something highly malty in the St. Bernardus Abt 12 neighborhood. Brewing with filtered Chicago tap water. All calculations from iBrewMaster 2. Here we go. Style: Belgian Dark Strong Ale Anticipated OG: 1.089...

I brewed a GF beer for my wife about 10 days ago - steeped GF oats, sorghum syrup (briess), D-45, buckwheat honey, maltodextrin, rice solids and lots of hops. 5 Gallon batch with an OG of 1.064 so I pitched two packets of US-05. It's been parked in my closet at around 65 degrees. Here's the...

I'm fairly new to home brewing and just finished bottling my 10th beer and wanted to share 10 lessons I've learned from this process. In no particular order: 1. It's just beer! Sometimes your efficiency is low, sometimes you miss the timing of a hop addition, sometimes your final volume is...

I'm hoping to start brewing an annual lambic in June and am having trouble finding aged hops. Is there anywhere that they can be purchased from? Alternately, is there a way to age them at home that doesn't take years and years?

I have a cherry tree in my back yard that is fixing to bloom in the next few weeks and i want to use those blossoms in a beer just before they open. The questions is - how? I felt that they'd fit well in a saison so I'm going to use a saison recipe that I've done before and I feel that it's...

This was my first all-grain BIAB after a few mini-mash BIAB beers that went well. Made a dunkelweizen with this grain bill: 5.5 lbs raw red wheat (breiss) 1.5 lbs munich 20l 2-row 1 lb. malted rye (breiss) 4 oz special b 4 oz chocolate malt (lhbs didn't have carafa ii) Mashed in at 154 on the...

So this is the third beer that I've made and I decided to strike out and write my own recipe with assistance from BeerSmith 2. Here goes: Boil Size: 4 gal. Boil Time: 60 min. Grains: 8 oz. Black Malt (500 SRM) 8 oz. Carafa II (412 SRM) 4 oz. Cara-Pils (2 SRM) - Grains steeped in 2...

Greetings! My wife and I recently began home brewing after I lost my last job in a restaurant. We figured it would be fun, we can brew what we want to drink and we'll save a lot of money by not going to the hop leaf four times a week! We've made two beers so far - the first was from a...