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For the past few months, I've been harvesting active krausen to pitch into my new beers. I do nothing more than scrape at least half of the active krausen and dumping it onto a cooled wort, without getting too much fermenting beer into the new vessel. I haven't had one problem in over ten beers...

It's now my one year anniversary of brewing all grain recipes. I've learned a lot, and failed a few times. I've made a few amazing beers, and a few mediocre, but most have been pretty good. At first I was using other peoples recipes, but now I'm making up my own recipes as I go, and they've...

My first beer turned out awesome!! Although, I think I went waaaaay overboard on the gravity, but sometimes that all works out... Right? hahaha. Please give feedback, but regardless, I love the crisp, tangy flavor. As well as the downright knockout buzz it hands you in the first few sips...

Let me start off by saying my first AG turned out awesome, flavorwise.... That being said, I tried a glass of it before bottling and it seemed amazing! Great taste, hints of blood oranges came through nicely, great color, great smell. The only problem, my woman and myself drank only a small...

I'm starting my second AG this weekend and wanted to keep it simple, so I'm going with a SMaSH. I plan on growing Cascade hops in my backyard this year, so I figured I'd go with a few brews using just Cascade to get my footing. Here's my recipe, lemme know what you professionals think! 12#...

After brewing for the past three months I feel that it's time for me to save money and go AG. I've been researching everything I can and getting info that would make a normal person's head spin. I know most of you get tons of questions all the time here, and I hate to make another thread, but I...

I was recently gifted a new brew kit and I asked around how to chill the wort quickly and I eventually came up with a system of running my wort through copper coils in ice water. The first time I used it it chilled the wort to room temperature as fast as I could pour it into the piping. My...