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Like many, I often line up a few brews that allow me to harvest and reuse the same yeast. In the spring I like to make a witbier followed by a white ipa. In the past I’ve used the mangrove jacks wit yeast and liked the result, however, this time around my lhbs only had Lallemand wit in stock. I...

Hey, I'm pretty new to brewing sours in general but this is my first time trying to use bottle dregs to sour a beer. I live in Canada so a lot of the sour beers that people discuss harvesting dregs from are not really available. So, when a friend brought me a bottle of Russian River...

All right, I'll try to keep this post from turning into a novel but I've tried a lot of different approaches to brewing and I'm looking for advice in regards to making my brew day more problem free. Like others, my progression in this hobby has left me with a closet full of equipment that...

Okay, I'll try to explain; I'm making my first long term sour using Wyeast's Roeselare blend and I'm wanting to ferment/age in a 6G better bottle carboy with minimal headspace. Today I brewed 6G of wort but I know that I'll have massive blow off if I put it all in the fermenter so I only put 5G...

I'm finally getting around to building a trellis in my backyard so that I can grow some hops in the ground instead of the containers Ive been using the past few years. I purchased some really nice 4X4 cedar post that are 14' long with the intention of spacing two posts 12' apart connected at...

Hey folks, I guess the title more or less says it; I'm wanting to add a section of hard plumbing that allows me to flip a couple valves and run my wort post boil through my counter flow chiller to cool and then bypass the chiller at the end for whirlpool. I find that my chiller is quite...

Hey, I'm a beer brewer dabbling in cider making. I've had some good success with fermenting apple juice from the grocery store by fermenting with an ale strain and adding yeast nutrients. In most cases I've let the fermentation go around 4 weeks at the lowest temp recommended for that...

I'm new to using a steam condenser and am curious about what people do when the boil concludes. Do you: 1) Keep the steam condenser running to remove steam while also running your wort chiller down to a certain temperature. (2 water supplies required/at what temperature would you turn it off?)...

okay, cue the rdwhahb responses. I brewed a beer 2 weeks ago that looked to me like it was infected as of very next day. I say it looked infected is because there was no real krausen to speak of, there was some large bubbles and the surface looked a bit oily. I've been brewing for 4 years and...

Alright I’ve been thinking about this a lot so this’ll probably be a longer post. I recently bought the 35L snub nose fermentasaurus fermenter and I’d like to make use of its pressure rating. First off I’m hoping that using a spunding valve set low (maybe 5 psi) can help to keep the Krausen...

I've been slowly assembling a 220v 30amp control panel for an ebiab setup and getting frustrated with the unreliable crimps I've been getting. I do have plenty of experience with house wiring projects and smaller electronics work (tube amps) so I feel confident working on this project but this...

I’m hoping someone can provide some advice with the priming and bottling of a Belgian quad I brewed about 7 weeks ago. The beer is the westvleteren 12 clone by csi. Brew day went well and after 10 days in primary the beer had attenuated down to the expected 1.012 with a temperature ramp up to...

I'm guessing that with all the DIYers on this board that there are people printing parts to use in their home breweries. I have access to a machine that prints using pla but I'm completly new to the concept. One thing that I've noticed is that while the parts come off with great accuracy and...

No, not what you think 😉 I bought 4 corny kegs from my lhbs to start kegging my home brew. (I am loving the ease and convenience of having a kegerater btw). Anyway on 2 of the 4 kegs the rubber on the bottom and handles leaves thick black residue on anything they touch when wet. I...