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I bought a six pack of Paulaner Salvator dopple bock. There is some sediment in the bottom. Has anyone tried to propagate yeast from Paulaner beer before? I am assuming the white, powdery sediment is yeast. None of the bottles of this beer I have gotten before have had sediment like this in them.

I want to make something like Lagunitas DayTime, a low carb, low calorie beer. They did an interesting write up on DayTime and the lite beer concept, Beer 101: Low Carb IPA. I do not necessarily want to clone this beer but want to learn how to make something like it. @shoreman started a thread...

I see Inkbird, a great forum sponsor, is giving away another version of their temperature controller on 5/24/22 (link to giveaway). I am curious what other uses folks have found for these devices other than controlling the temperature in a fermentation chamber. I got one when I built my FC and...

Attached are my local water report and how I entered it into Bru'n Water. I think I have this right.

I plan to make Miraculix Best. I plan a step mash 144F for 30 min, 161F for 30 min, 170F for 15 min. I plan on adding boiling water to raise the temperature for the second and third steps. For a 3.5 gallon batch with 5.5 lbs of grain Brewers Friend recommends 10.25 qts of water for the first...

I bottle condition my beer. The last two batches were over carbed. They produced an excessive amount of foam when poured and would foam out of the bottle if it sat more than a few seconds after uncapping. I have done some reading and even asked here about what temperature to put into the...

I have an imperial stout I want to add some final gravity points to. It has finished at 1.029 and I want it to be 1.040. It’s a milk stout and I have not added any lactose yet. The original beer we are trying to emulate also reportedly has some maltodextrin in it. I’m hoping someone will...

BIAB - I am planning a big imperial stout. My seven gallon kettle will not accommodate all the grain and water. If I mash at a 1 qt/lb initial rate, lift and squeeze, then batch sparge with the remaining water I need to get to boil volume will that work? What effect will such a thick mash have...

We are working on a clone of Perennial's Abraxas. It's a Mexican oatmeal mocha stout,, perhaps classified as a pastry stout (1.040+ FG). I posted my grain bill OVER HERE and would appreciate input there from anyone interested and experienced in this kind of Imperial Stout.

I'm in the process of making a 4 gallon batch of @TimBrewz Irish Red Ale. On day 7 of fermentation I measured gravity at 1.013, as predicted by Brewer's Friend (1.068 down to 1.013). Soft crashed to 45 degrees for a day then back up to 65 and added 45g of dry hops to for 2 days then crashed to...

Let's see if there is really a significant interest interest in pursuing this as a serious subject or just a lot of folks that want to rant. I'll start by saying I really like the better examples of "NEIPA" and understand haze as a reault of process and not as a goal. I also like the idea of...

I'm researching starters and trying to be a little more analytical regarding cell counts. I've never really had trouble getting beer to ferment and it normally takes off pretty fast using the guess and by golly yeast estimation method but I'd like to try and dial it in. I have a few unique...

I made a FC out of a dorm room refrigerator. I’m thinking of using this Reptile Heater as a heat source. Any thoughts on this idea? The incandescent light bulb wrapped in aluminum foil I'm using using smells bad and doesn't seem like the best idea.

I got a computer case cooling fan to run inside my fermentation chamber I’m putting together. It is a 12v fan, specs say 10.8-13.3v. What will happen if I connect it to an old 16v laptop power supply? Run fast, wear out bearing, . . . Poof?

I see folks using pineapple and mango a lot. I've seen banana and guava. I picked this up at the Asian grocery store and it made me wonder, has anyone ever used Jack fruit? I love me some Jack fruit, it might be good in an IPA.

I'm trying to figure out how many points pineapple juice concentrate will add to my Pineapple IPA. I haven't really come up with a recipe for that yet but I think I will base it on my standard NEIPA and just add the concentrate after fermentation has died down before I dry hop. I know it will...

My son came home with these little bottles of Immunity Defense shots. It's mostly fruit juice and root extracts. It has bacillus something or other in it, some kind of probiotic bacteria. I don't know if it would cause souring or something like that but I don't want to try. The bottles look...

In honor of 4/20

Yakama Valley Hops Sabro Sale. $14/lb

Vanilla beans are a pretty expensive ingredient. I have used them in a porter and a stout. I'm planning a milkshake IPA so have been scouring the inter webs looking for my best option. I settled on 10 extract grade B pods from Vanilla Bean Kings (an Amazon seller). I have no affiliation with...