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My 2nd year hop plant has ~10 full size hops towards the bottom. The rest of the plant is forming hops but are much smaller or are still little spurs. I'm not worried s about over all yield as there are many spurs all over the plant. Do I harvest this hand full of hops when they're ready? The...

If you brew a beer with oak chips and it had a solid oaky flavor after a few days to a week. What would it technically be classified as? Because it's not technically oak "aged". Planning on submitting it into a home brew competition and need to know how to label it.

My bines are doing great this year. They're 2nd year. The offshoots are growing like mad. I've noticed in several places there are several off shoots wrapping around eachother an getting entangled. My first assumption is that it's normal but then I became worried about hop yeild/ health. Could...

I currently have a 10 gal oak barrel filled with the appropriate about of potassium metabisulfite and citric acid. Im wondering, other than just dumping it out of the barrel, if there is anything else I need to do before putting beer in it. Will the citric acid cause off flavors in my beer? If...

Hello, I'm going to be brewing a Cascadian (Black) IPA with a gravity around 9%. I've typically used dry yeast, even for beers 8%+ but I want to try Hornindal Kviek liquid yeast. How many packs should I use for 5 gallons? If I could get some tips on how to keep the yeast happy throughout...

I've Googled Oak Aged DDH Imperial NEIPA with no results. Before I try it I'd like to know if anyone has tried this before. If so, was it a success or failure?

Hello, I've been brewing for a little over a year and have done around 15 brews (so I'm still a noob). I don't remember ever seeing the yeast fall to the bottom shortly after I pitched it. Ive left it alone for about 6 hours and the beer is clearing. I can see the proteins/ trub/ etc. falling...

Hello, Its been a little since if posted or brewed; Grad school can be very time consuming. I've mainly done 2 gal batches for the past year and want to bump up to 5 gal batches. I'm ready to buy an 8 gal brew kettle but if I can avoid it, that would be great. I currently have a 5 gal pot. 5...

I've got two batches fermenting now and I wrote out the hop schedule to include dry hopping but while I was waiting to get to brewing them I found some info on adding hop tea to replace dry hop additions. The videos I've watched all use a french press, since I don't have one I figured I'd use a...

Hey all, I recently made a cinnamon vanilla brown sugar oatmeal raisin porter. During fermentation I brought this up here because it had a yogurt smell. Got great advice and as per usually most said let it go and see what it's like when it's ready. Well I've been drinking on it for a couple...

I brewed a Porter and it's been fermenting for 2 weeks. OG was 1.070, I took a gravity reading today and it's around 1.030. I noticed a slight funk smell a couple days previous but as I looked up posts about it, they said that's pretty normal. Especially when using chocolate malt. I added...

Hey guys, Very green, I'm on my 6th homebrew, all previous batches have turned out pretty good. I just brewed a batch using 3lbs Maris Otter 2lbs Malt of Ireland stout malt 1lb Rye 2oz light roasted barley. I'm brewing a 2 gal batch. A calculator I used said OG should be ~1.068. My OG actually...