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Sat for a month after fermentation in basement aftwr a coldcrash. Was a lager. Dont have the recipe handy. I think i pitched a dry pack of lager yeast.german strain. Ok finished about 1.007. Didnt check it before i kegged it. Smelled fine.

In 8 days or so primary atm. Gonna keg 5 then bottle the rest. Hope its good enough to share. Taste at pitch was kinda bland so im gonna add more jalapeño tincture and pineapple juice at bottling. At least thats what im thinking. Any ideas? Have about 2 gallons to bottle . 5 to keg

I have flip tops and crown cap type bottles which would be better for bottling mead? I figure on a few years and i dont have cork type bottles atm?

After 3 or so yrs using same mash tun only ever changing the braid im missing temps by like 8 or so degrees. Using same software many different recipes but sometimes same recipe. I notice no cracks inside and no water getting inside the middle either that i can tell. I preheat the tun with the...

So i did 10g batch of my version blue moon pitched 1/2 pack dry us 05 (god why did i do that) threw in fermentation chamber 3 weeks activity was stopped so instead of taking a reading first, i filled my first keg, then remembered a hydro sample, sincecit was cold crashes i let sample sit while i...

So topic says it. Due to single parenting my mash went 120 min instead of 60 that i intended. Temp went to about 145 from the intended 152. I batch sparge in igloo cooler. Heres my recipe : 5g 5 lb pale malt 3 lb white wheat 1 lb honey malt 1 lb oats .25 hallertau mit. 60 min .5 sorachi acr...

Cleaning up grain bin and i got 1 lb of both i wanna use up. Also have corn but would rather use that on something else. Anyone have any suggestions for these? Prefer an ale but could lager if i had to. Have a dew different base malt i could use as well, maybe include this 5 lb victory as well...

So i planed to brew tonight since my daughter is staying over her friends house(shes always bitchin bout tbe smell) got a small starter going if 051 and forgot i dont have much 2 row. So heres what i got to work with: 12 lbs white wheat 5 lbs victory 3 or so lbs munich a pound each of pilsen and...

Anyone use any of these? Im thinking it could add a slight nutty flavor to a lager. Not sure how to prepare or when to add. Mash? Secondary? How much to add to get a little flavor?

Smackpac wyeast danish 2042 i think it is. got it today, smacked it, dated 9/1/16 took about 6 or seven hours to swell. I dumped that in 2000 ml 1040 started on a plate. I looked at some online yeast calcs but i dont know how much yeast ill have. This is for a grolsch clone i hope to brew...

Just started cold crashing, didnt give any thought to beer temp at bottling time. Although i used i calc to figure out priming sugar based on style and temp of beer i never bottled beer at 40 ish degrees. Will my beet be ok?

Well i just had my first bad bottling day. For some godly unknown reason i thought it was fine to dry hop 4 oz of homegrown hops LOOSE in my fermentor. I use spigots in buckets. I thought tbe beer would just "filter" through a little slow. I had to use a pot to scoop up my beer from fermentor...

Ive got a starter going 24 hrs now and there is no krausen or even bubbles on top. Did i maybe get some dead yeast? I always do ales but im getting rdy for my second lager ever now with the new fermentation chamber. Never had a problem before with the yeast in over two yrs. wlp 830 german lager...