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Hi everyone, as my title says... I do have fermenters that I can pressurize to do pressurized fermentation, transfers etc.... When I want to transfer from the racking arm to a co2 purged keg I always end up with some hops or yeast clogged in the keg post or ball lock fitting... Yes I do drop...

Hi everyone, as my title says... I do have fermenters that I can pressurize to do pressurized fermentation, transfers etc.... When I want to transfer from the racking arm to a co2 purged keg I always end up with some hops or yeast clogged in the keg post or ball lock fitting... Yes I do drop...

Hi! I want to share this simple but so tasty recipe. I wanted to do a brown ale at first but decide to use a pack of W34/70 that was in my fridge. I did a few pressurized fermented lager recently with success si I had to try it for a brown lager. I was skeptical to use 1lbs of crystal 80 but I...

Hi everyone, I was working on my next recipe and I was looking to brew an American Brown ALE... but I was trying to use the ingredients I got in stock. I found that I have a pack of Fermentis W34/70 laying in my fridge so I was think of making a brown lager... I made a fews pressurized lagers...

Hi there, I took a note last year in my calendar to brew a beer with maple syrup before spring. I do have my own small maple syrup production at home so every spring I do about 25 gallons ( 100L of maple syrup. I would like to enjoy this beer in my shack while boiling the maple sap with...

Hi everyone, first time trying to get my beer to 2,6 volume of c02 at around 68F. I set pressure at 29psi… about 7 days and it still at about 2,0 volume I would guess… no leaks at all… I do have about 6 inch of free space into my keg… is it making a difference ? I got a little less beer...

Hey guys! I would like to know if my bottles will prime IF : 1- Put my priming solution into the keg. 2- Purge the keg with CO2 3- Transfer my cold crashed beer from the fermentor directly to a keg ( using some pressure to do the no oxygen transfer ) 4- Use my Tapcooler gun ( bottling gun...

Hi guys, anyone saw that before with any yeast ? I started with one pack of that yeast for my first starter. Had the yeast settle in the fridge for one night. Then got it up to room temperature, empty the liquid, then I shaked the yeast to make a second starter but it was not comming into a...

Hi guys, I do have a some leftover ingredients/hops that I want to use... I would like to brew a kind of orange Kolsch using 1oz of dried orange peel I got in stock. I have some BITTER and SWEET orange peel and I dont know which one to use... Here is the basic recipe I planned... should be...

Hi there! Looking to brew a robust porter really soon to be able to enjoy it for the Holidays... When do you guys prefer to add the cherry puree and the cocoa nibs... seems that 50% add them to the end of the boil and 50% into the secondary... The cherry puree could be in the secondary and...

Hi there, I would like to know if anyone ever dry hopped their 2nd dry hop addition in a keg ( using a sanitized meshbag ) but at the same time than you prime it for carbonation... Sometimes I prime my kegs with corn sugar when I cant use my C02 lines... I am sure that I could do it but I...

Hello! My Speidel 30L conical fermenter cooling jacket is blocked. ALL my cooling hoses, fitting, solenoid are ok. The blocking is INTO the cooling jacket in the fermentor. I recently noticed that the cooling wasnt efficient not to say very poor... but yesterday while I was in the cold...

I searched and could not find the awnser but since its from Germany the chmaces are good that the awnser is yes. That would mean its better to do a 90 minutes boil ? Thanks a lot

Hi everyone, I tought I would share this NEIPA recipe. Its the first time I brew it and there is 3 things I will try out next time... Its a little different than a regular NEIPA so I think that many of you might enjoy it. There is a good taste of pineapple to it but its not overkill... its very...

Hi everyone, I would like to brew a pretty standard NEIPA recipe using some Citra, Galaxy and Mosaic I have in my freezer. To be different than my usual NEIPA I would like to use some pineapple puree into the fermenter once the fermentation will be over. I plan to use about 7,5 pounds of Dole...

Hi everyone, I do have a black IPA into my fermentor that I just dry hopped... I also took a gravity reading and the color was kinda brownish to me... I already made a lot of dark beers recipes and I cant remember if they were looking like this. It might be because of the yeast and hops still...

Hi guys, I need some help to develop my recipe... I do have a bunch of spruce tips I collected last spring. The are vacuum bagged and frozen. I would like to brew something that would be inspired by the Norwegian Ale... I really mean inspired... This is what I got so far ; 1.058SG 10lbs...

Hi guys, I would like to know if its good to follow the Beersmith requirements for my starter. It tells me that I need 358 billions cells. To get this amount of cell I need to do a 1.9L starter My real question is... should I take the yeast from this starter and put it into another +or-2L...

Hi guys ! Is any of you are using a mash tun that has a maximum of around 13lbs of grains or so ? With my Braumeister I am limited to about 1.060 OG or so... so sometimes I use some DME to raise the gravity of my wort. I usually add the DME with about 15 minutes left to the boil thats good...

Hi everyone ! So I made my first kettle sour... went pretty good but my fermentation took about 3-4 days to start. First time I have such a lag. I used Wyeast 1010 American Wit no starter. Anyway after about 15 days the beer was now 1.010 and very tasty... just sour enought. It was now time to...