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i have a tapcooler bottle filler and really love it. way easier to user than a beer gun. the only think i don't like is that is is a bit slow and having to hold the bottle can be a pain. i saw that there is a hands free mount that hooks to the filler and holds a bottle into place. i wanted...

hello, brett first timer question. i'm planning to brew a saison with saison yeast and then add brettanomyces after primary fermentation is completed. i am planning to bottle the batch so that i don't have to worry about cross contamination and having to buy a keg and tap just for this batch...

hello, i recently started doing more 2.5 gallon 1/2 batches. i just dont drink as much as i used to but still enjoy the process of brewing and like having a variety of styles on hand to drink. i use dry yeast for probably 75% of my brews and it feels wasteful and unnecessary to use a whole...

Hello, i have plans to brew a gin barrel aged saison in the near future. i was planning on bottling it and thought about possibly adding the dregs of a brett beer. i thought the best way would be adding it in the bottling bucket to reduce the amount of items that could be contaminated. i know...

HELP!!! Ive been kegging for two years and have started having issues with a leak in my co2 line. Ive tried spraying the connects with foamy star san and cannot find it. i have a 3 keg system in a keezer if that helps. Possible issue: i did accidentally drop my co2 regular a couple feet. No...

i just brewed an IPA with hornindal kviek yeast. still waiting for it to carbonate in the keg but it's pretty tasty. i've seen people selling dried kviek yeasts and read about the history of it being harvested on knotty wooden rings and dried for future use. i was reading at the website below...

i wanted to check how long you can keep a yeast cake as long as you keep an inch or so of beer on top of it? i've tried yeast harvesting about 5 times and 4 of those times i've ended up with the yeast getting infected. i would boil jars and lids for 15 minutes and still had issue, though was...

Im finishing a porter im aging in a 5 gallon rye whiskey barrel. Im doing a short term age (also known as ‘resting’ i think?) and plan to only do about 3 weeks before kegging. Im planning to make a big bad stout in a few months and want to see what i should do to clean and help preserve the...

I was checking on some harvested yeast (white labs kolsch) and found one of the two jars like this. puffy, opaque white foam that also looks a bit granulated. Guessing its an infection but wanted input. Other jar looks fine but i'm wondering if i can still use it for my next cream ale i'll be...

Got a mini-fridge w/ temp controller about a year ago for temp controlled fermentation. typically i will bring the wort down to about 5 degrees below the lowest temp recommended for the yeast strain used to compensate for if the wort is a higher temp inside the fermenter. i then pitch the...

saw these at trader joes the other day. used cocoa nibs for a mocha stout a few months back and liked the taste. planning to make a mexican chocolate stout soon and was thinking about using them again. usually get things from morebeer which has them at $6 for 4oz and TJ's is 50% less. only...

i've started pressure canning wort for starters. 2 batches so far have worked well. i usually do about 1 oz DME per 1 cup of water, which brings the gravity to around 1.040-1.044. i got to thinking if it would possibly work to triple or even quadruple the amount of DME to make a high gravity...

i was curious if anyone else ONLY uses a blow off tube system for their fermenters (tube from fermenter that goes into bottle of water) instead of an air lock. think i used an airlock 2-3 times my whole beer career.

Hello, I brewed a belgain dubbel yesterday and ended up overshooting my OG. I had planned for it to be around 1.074 but ended up with 1.082 which will probably result in it being 8.5-9.5% ABV. I had thought about adding another 1/2 brown sugar and a pack of D-180 candi syrup mid fermentation to...

Hello, I recently got a pressure canner to can wort for starters. i did a test run w/ a 15 lb weight on it and the gauge went to just under the 15 lb mark with the weight rocking steadily. See pic below. When i turned the heat higher to increase the pressure the weight started rocking pretty...

I've read the Drew Beechum article and heard him talk about pressure cooking wort for starts on the experimental brew podcast. I have a fagor duo 8 qt pressure cooker, which was a best buy choice by america's test kitchen for a stove top pressure cooker. in their book 'pressure cooker...

I just got done brewing a 9% imperial coffee chocolate stout. it's the first big beer i have brewed since switching over to kegging and had a few questions. -when bottling, i know my big beers would take about 3 times as long to carbonate, usually a month or 2. since i no longer have to...

brewed by first (intentionally) big beer a few weeks ago. it is going to be a mocha stout with coffee and chocolate added. my starting gravity was 1.100 and after about 3 weeks it's settled at 1.030, which is a little higher than what a i wanted (was aiming for 1.025-ish) but still not too...

was getting ready to make a batch of homemade pbw and found out the oxyclean i got in bulk has some small, blue pellets in it. looks to be the regular, name brand oxyclean and not some special formula. any idea of if it is okay to use for homemade pbw? thinking it just might be a proprietary...

been getting more into english ales. so far i've only used safale 04 (and WL007 for a few bigger beers. heard it's pretty much the same strain but with 007 being more attenuative). wanted to get recommendations on other strains that might be better/different to try with future ales.