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I currently have a Octoberfest lagering in my fridge for the past 2 weeks. I would like to age it until September. What would be the proper or best procedure for aging? I am just getting into kegging and I was told to keg and carb it and let it sit. Looking on advice as to what the proper...

Yes three vessel or equivalent brewing systems.

I use BS3 also. I switched from tap water to distilled water this year. Looking at the water addictions I did not like what was given for my water correction. Looking at the beer recipe you really need to define what style your brewing and application. (BIAB, Extract, Mashing Out Mashtun) Then...

I brew the BIAB and often wounded if the quality of the beer is less than mashing out quality. I belong to a local homebrew club and we have competition between the members and most of the time the mashed beers have been winning the competition. For the most part all the entries are very good...

I have brewed a handful of IPA's and my last three were NEIPA. First one was good. But second and third went bad due to oxidation and dumped the two after a week in the keg. The recipe called for hop additions at whirlpool, dry hop at two days into fermentation remove at 4 days and another...

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Yes, a few times without much help. Performed all the directives that the forum and Beer Smith gave me but still have the cloud download issues. Is there similar issues with other brewing databases before I make a switch?

I been having issues printing my recipes from Beer Smith Cloud. When trying to print a message appears "Unable to download recipe from server." I have seen this complaint on other sites. I use to get a popup message telling me to log into Gold. If I clicked on it, it let me to log in. So if I...

Been brewing for four years now. Through all the growing pains and purchasing different equipment I am at a point of what I want to invest in equipment. Lately I have made a few NEIPA with good and bad results. Trying to eliminate oxidation with CO2 I have good results. Now I am looking at...

Would any of these additives harm fermentation?

I will. The paste is Gourmet Gardens Lemongrass. GOURMETGARDENS.COM

Wow, so many variations of the use of lemongrass. So, I couldn't find many lemongrass recipes but from the posts it seems lemongrass was just a name of the beer that I had at the the microbrewery. So I found a Lemongrass paste and made a tea to determine the quantity needed for my beer. I...

This past weekend we were at a Micro Brewery and they had a Lemongrass Pilsner on tap. Awesome refreshing light easy drinker beer for a hot day. It had a light lemon flavor with a hint of citrus hop maybe a mozaic or cascade. It definitely was not a Leinies Summer Shanty type. So I dug around...

Lots of good info. I was a bit concerned about the yeast quantity when I purchased. My local homebrew store thought I would be good to go with one pack. Although my OG was a little higher than expected. I still think the yeast count was low due to the smack pack not expanding. Guess I will see...

Brewed a Belgian Strong last Friday. Used Wyeast Belgian Abbey 1214. Exp August 2023. Smacked pack, it fizzed, placed in house at 73 degrees for 3 hours. It never expanded the package. Pitched and at 38 hours not a speck of fermentation starting. This is the second Wyeast that was not expired...

While I am online I would like any brewing history on lemongrass. I had a Lemongrass Pilsner this past weekend. It was an awesome beer on a 80 degree day. The lemon flavor was not overwhelming with a light hop no bitterness. Looking to brew a batch but hard to find a recipe. Researched...

I guess the one issue that worried me was after activating the smack pack and there was fizzing after the inner bag broke open I placed the yeast in the house for 3 hours the yeast packet never expanded like normally. Maybe I should have waited longer before pitching the Safale 05 but the OG is...

Brewed a Belgian Dark Strong for our clubs upcoming beer of the month on Friday. I used Wyeast Belgian Abbey. As of last night at the 34 hour mark after pitching nothing was happening. Yeast exp date is August 2023. This will be the second time that I had a Wyeast failure. I always keep a pack...

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The recipe I used called for a 7 day first hop and a 4 day second hop. The author of the recipe stated not to leave the hops past the given duration due to the hops will start giving off grassy flavors which he wanted to stay away from. Not sure how they perform the process without O2 exposure...