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Hello all. Sorry if this has been asked before. My basement is rather cool (60f-65f). From what I have read that is a bit cooler than ideal. I have two brewpi ferm chambers I use for my beer. They are both setup to heat or cool very accurately. Would the kombucha fermentation be suffocated in...

I made a version of James Spencer's fruitcake barley wine. OG was 1.125. FG is 1.025. 13.1% abv by my calcuations. Fermented with WLP001. It has been is stable for the past week and the samples taste great. I normally keg my beers, but for this one I want to bottle condition it. I have...

Hey there, I have a window to brew tomorrow after work. I am planning to make the Munich Helles in brewing classic styles. Sadly, I am short on Munich malt. I ordered some, but it will not arrive in time. The recipe calls for 240 grams of Munich malt. I have 100 grams leftover from...

Hello everyone! I've been at this for about 2 years now went AG from the start. Recently a friend of mine who lives on the other side of the country has asked me for advice on how to get into the hobby. Ideally I'd walk him through a brew day, but that is not possible. I am suggesting he try...

Hey everyone, I just pitched an imperial IPA (1.075 SG) with a repitch of yeast bay Vermont ale yeast. The yeast is tearing through the beer with the same intensity it did with the lower gravity beer I harvested it from. I would expect it will ferment out completely within 7 to 10 days. My...

Hello everyone, I have a low gravity beer (centennial blonde) that I made using Vermont ale yeast. It is coming up on the two week mark in terms of time in the primary fermenter. I could likely keg it today and have a pretty good product. I plan to reuse the yeast in a high gravity imperial...

I have been experimenting with no chill wort cooling recently. I have been putting the beer into a corny keg, hitting it with 30 psi and letting it cool down over night. The goal being to not waste water, not use my old (but effective) system of putting it in two canning pots in the tub AND to...

Hello everyone, When I make a beer I tend to order grain bills for each batch I make, but I seem to always end up with a bit of grain or a pack of hops left over. I took an inventory of my grain stock/hops acquired since last Christmas and consolidated everything. From that I put together the...

I'm sure this question has been asked 100 times over, but I have not found the answer. I have recently finished aging a batch of cyser (cider and honey) that I made in the early summer. I transferred it to a keg and cooled it down in the keggerator. I tried it, and its pretty good, but after...

Hello, I made up a batch of hard cider from apple cider that I bought from Costco up here in Canada (Its pretty run of the mill pasteurized store bought cider). So far, its coming along well. It fermented well with WLP775 and on transfer to secondary, the unsweetened dry cider was pretty...

Hello all, I have kegged my first beer. I put it up to 30psi for a day, then dropped it to 9psi. When I tried my first pour, it is almost all gas, then foam. It almost feels like its not pulling beer from the bottom of the keg, bug just off gasing from the top until it gets foamy. I got the...

I have identified a part of my process that is hurting my final product. I can never seem to get a good seal on my auto siphon where is connects to the tubing. Every time I use it I get a bit of air into the line as its running. Are there any tricks for sealing that up? I have debated...

I spent a well deserved day off work yesterday bottling a batch of IPA and making a new batch of the same IPA from all grain. The beer I was bottling was, for the first time, without question delicious on sampling before conditioning.. (Not that my other beers all turned out bad, but I think...

Hello, Am making my second starter on a stir plate. I have a question. Details: - wort is just under 1.040, made with DME - Yeast is WLP002 -1.5 litre starter - pitched the yeast yesterday at 1pm. Within an hour of two of pitching it was bubbling.. By 5pm it was going full tilt. By this...

Hey everyone, I made two 1 gallon batches for beer from grain. A smores beer and a chocolate maple porter. They were in the fermenter for 3 and 4 weeks respectively. I shook each to airate pre pitch, then pitched with a half pack of dry yeast (notty and s04 I believe). I bottled them a week...

I have a quick question about dry hopping. I have a recipe that calls for it. I've read around and come up with great ways to add the hops (ex, in a bag with some marbles), but not a good explanation of how to read the recipe for timing of dry hopping. The recipe calls for "3.00 oz Citra...

Hello, I made a batch of beer using a combination of a pre-made wort beer kit and a small AG boil. I mixed all the wort together in a bottling bucket (total of 6 GAL of wort), pitched re-hydrated S-05 yeast into the bottling bucket and stirred it in. OG is 1.068. (see here for the...

Hey everyone! Quick question, I am in the process of boiling a batch. It calls for boiling it for 60 minutes. I clearly used too much water abd I've gone about 15 minutes past the recipe boil time (to 75 min). I suspect I'll hit 80 min before I hit the correct volume to fit in my...

Hey everyone, I picked up a barley crusher on a black Friday sale.. So of course, I had to try doing an all grain brew after work. New toys demand to be played with! I kept it small scale for obvious reasons (minimizing cost of potential failure.. apartment.. no propane.. it’s a week...

Hey everyone, I've been lurking on here for about a year and picking away at some smaller brewing projects. I have gotten a lot of information and have started asking questions on the forums as I start to up my game, so I paid into the kitty and got a supporting membership. I just wanted to...