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I recently started fermenting in kegs, and did my first lager the other day. At the end of fermentation after the diacetyl rest, I set the temp to lager to hopeful get more yeast out of suspension before transferring to a lagering/serving keg. I did this with a blow off hose attached into a...

Hey I am thinking of brewing large 5 gallon batches of Kombucha in my brew buckets. Ideally I'll just drop it into my brew freezer with the other fermenting beers, but I typically only cover the buckets with a lid and no vapor lock. Is there chance of the Kombucha cross contaminating my beer...

Hey guy's, I've bottled two ales with honey as the primer. The first batch I used too much honey, as I wasn't very precise with measuring, and made some bombs, although only two blew in the summer heat. This time I was very careful and used one cup exactly for 5 gal, yet it carbed in one day...

Single malt two row APA dry hopped during day five of fermentation. Seemed stall, then start smells like bread then turns sour, and tastes of glue after 12 days on the cake. Temp controlled at 18 degrees celsius. Should I dump? Tenth brew and never had anything like this. I think its...

Hey All, fifth brew and my first dry hop. I used a recipe from the Grainfather website called mister simcoe, it called for 150g of Simcoe at day five... My brew had a very thick Krausen and I just dumped them on top as the recipe wasn't explicit about it. Is this ok or should I have...

I am thinking of going all grain after a couple of success big beer brews. I've been using a Belgian ale extract recipe I'd like to reproduce with grain as I like it a great deal, and this would be a good learning benchmark for me as I can keep doing it without worrying about pitching, but...

Hey Guys, I bottled four days ago and I am going to be leaving to work out of town tomorrow, and I am thinking of trying a bottle of my first brew before I go. I gave some bottles a shake and I see some bubbles and foam form. Is it carbed enough to try?

Hey All, It's been a surprisingly calm three weeks of patient reading and sniffing of my first brew. It's a Belgian Triple OG of 1.083, I only pitched one 11.5 g pack of S-33 Safbrew yeast, and it definitely struggled producing a lot of off flavors given it's cidery fruity smell. This is...

Hey All, first post, and brew. I have a fermenter bucket in small 4 cubic foot freezer with a temp controller for temp consistency. I am on my second day, and I noticed that some gas had built up in the bottom after I leaned in for sniff. Made me dizzy! Fanned it off and leaned in again to pop...