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Wellll…He…ck. I was making a Belgian witbier I’d made before a few years ago, which called for 6 pounds 2 row and 6 pounds flaked wheat. La de dah, I’m pulling the bucket of white wheat malt down, grindy grindy, mashy mashy, boil and boil. Pitch, put away in the fermenter, relax and have a...

I’m going to be helping someone with their first brew (BIAB) in a few weeks. I have good water at my house for most brewing purposes, and don’t usually fiddle with it. So that means I have not delved into the subject. Her water is somewhat hard, coming from a ground well in the Sierra Nevada...

A couple weeks ago, I posed the question on my apparently stalled fermentation on my Tank 7 clone, brewed one month ago. My yeast is Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison. That was when I found out I needed to ramp up the heat from 80 to 90°f for this yeast. Fermentation began again, but it is sooooo...

I have an assortment of used kegs (Cornelius) and various posts and poppits. I have noticed, over the few years I’ve been doing this that some combinations are almost impossible to get the quick-disconnect mounted on the post. Decided to clean my collection of hoses with PBW today, and I have...

I’ve got a Tank 7 clone (5 gallons) in the fermenter, just past 2 weeks. Everything went perfectly, but I’m concerned that the gravity isn’t falling as quickly as I’d thought it should. I’ve made several of these before, but extract. The other difference was the yeast; I’d used Belle Saison...

I want to make a NEIPA, and I don't care if it is average, outstanding, or not-quite-the-right-hops. I just want to use what I have in my inventory, which I think I can, but I am not confident in this style at all and need some help. 3-5 gallons BIAB is my plan. I have US 2-row, pilsner, flaked...

Ok, messed up on my recipe. Is there a nice way to fix it? Made a cream ale flavored with orange peel. I should have added a half pound of honey to it (5 gallons) at FO, but I didn’t. I just put it in the fermenter about 4 hours ago. Is there a way to add it now? Should I wait until it is almost...

I’m trying to refine my kegging process to get that perfect pour and I’m having questions on the beer line length. I have conflicting advice. Micromatic says on the 3/16 ID line, (quote) “This size hose is not appropriate for use in lengths longer then 5' as a higher then normal keg pressure...

I have two bottles with two micromatic regulators. One has a brass manifold in line ( the other two outlets are usually turned off. ) The lines are the same length. I happen to have them both in the fridge with a Saison in one, a stout in the other. They are both pressurized the same (12)...

I took the regulator off my bottle and something popped out that I don't remember from the last time I did that. It was a black o-ring that promptly crawled out like a snake from a brass ring and became twice the size it was before, making it not fit back in. Now I don't know what to do! Is it a...

I just started kegging a short while ago. I had understood that flushing the lines with pbw was the way to head off beer stone and clean the lines. Now I'm seeing a cloudy residue that I can only think is beer stone. I have made the solution nice and strong, I have let it set for awhile before...

I just got my keggle back from my homebrew store (they do fabrication, welding, etc). I had them drill a hole and weld a coupling for a ball valve. When I screwed it in, it's upside down. Is there a way to adjust that? Did they put the coupler in upside down?

I made my first heff last month, and kegged it a few days ago. I'm pretty disappointed in it. There not a lot of flavor, a bit of cloves. I think I probably fermented a bit low, around 68? But the main problem is that is has a sour taste to me. Not infected, but more of a lemony sour. Recipe...

I'm about to keg my first heffeweitzen. How do I keep from getting a big slug of yeast each time I pull a pint?

I made a copper wort chiller out of 50' 3/8" soft copper tubing. I've been using it, but my problem that is finally annoying me enough to either fix it or buy one is that it is floppy. Especially when it gets full of water, the coils just collapse down and sort of pile up. I can lift and jiggle...

Although I've been doing BIAB for a couple years, I want to do an extract tomorrow. I've been looking over some of the method details, and don't know the best route. Boil 3 gallons with half the malt (lme), and then add the remainder (dme) at FO, let pasteurize for 10 min, then cool and top off...

I have set up a little hop garden and have room for four plants. I'm primarily interested in dry hopping with them, and want each variety to justify its space. I have two cascade plants and one fuggles already planted (given to me). I have a very vigorous and healthy nugget variety in a pot, but...

I just wanted feed back on this sort of experience from the beer community. When my LHBC serves tastes and samples to the general public at an event like, say, learn to homebrew day, or big brew day, there are members who insist on using a spare pouring pitcher as a dump receptacle for...

Is there a reason to have both liquid and dry malt extract in a recipe? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I've been trying to come up with a way to really know my hops , and thought about making a nice, even pale ale, with California ale yeast and two row, etc, and a basic bittering hop. Then at a late point in the boil, splitting it off into 5 one gallon batches and hopping each one with a...