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I've always brewed with an electric Keggel or at least, I have for a long time now. I have a chance to get a Bayou Classic 15 gallon Kettle and I'm wondering what the advantage of it might be other than it would be lighter and probably easier to clean. Is there any reason that a kettle is truly...

So, what I'm wondering here is if different maltsters or different two row barleys and Wheats can have different amounts of sugar in them and I need to add more malt or is it just a diastatic difference and I need to mash longer. Or??? Anyway, I brewed a beer that I've been brewing for a long...

This is a quart jar of Voss Kveik dregs that I bottom harvested from my last brew. It's not really pretty like my yeast normally is because, it was harvested from a Northeast IPA and I couldn't get all of the Hop dust to stratify out of it. Anyway, today, I am brewing a beer that should be about...

I used the Voss on my New England IPA and it worked great! Now I'm wondering, could I use it for my American Hef? Has anybody done this? Thoughts, opinions, rhetoric? Thank you guys.

Well, by god, they were right! That yeast ripped right through my 1.070 beer in less than 3 days! I just measured the wort temperature and it was 87°. My hydrometer is calibrated to 60° so I did a calculation and it comes out that right now it is at 1.012. Should I go ahead and cold crash it or...

I'm going to brew a 10 gallon Northeast IPA today and I have two packs of Kveik yeast that are each 11 g. Should I just put one in one fermenter and one in the other or?? I think I was told to use a whole packet in 5 gallons so I figured two packs for 10 gallons? If anyone has confirmation of...

From the reading I've done, it seems that people like voss or hornindal. I like a low flocculating yeast for my beers. I like all of my beers to be cloudy. I want to pick the Kveik that is most fruity and most cloudy. Thanks guys

The same as the title says. I'm in 83687. If we can work out a good deal, I don't mind if it's shipped to me or I pick it up locally.

Hello. I was going to brew today but when I opened the lid on one of my yeast jars, a whole lot of CO2 came out and it foamed over a little bit. I squeezed the lid back on it and have been trying to get the CO2 out of it for about a day. I'm just wondering if it has went bad because of the co2...

Hello everyone. I started buying 2 row malt from a local farmer/ maltster (instead of the local home brew shop because it's not really local. 25 MI away!) and now, my numbers are low. It was at about 1.065 and now, it's at 1.055. His malt must have a little less extractable sugar in it, I...

Hello everyone. After switching to 10 gallon batches from 5 gallon batches and of course, building a whole new brewing setup for it, my American wheat seems thin. It's higher in alcohol I think and it's causing it to have a thinner mouthfeel. (Again, I THINK. I'm not certain this is the cause.)...

Hello everybody, I was wondering something. I have a large amount of yeast that I want to use in 10 gallons of beer. It's probably an inch of compact yeast cake in the bottom of a quart Mason jar. I know it's enough for the 10 gallons but, it has been sitting in the fridge for about a month...

A friend of mine gave me one gallon cans of this grain. I have four of them and they say that they're four and a half pounds each. Anyway, I'm pretty sure they're not malted or anything but, is there any use for these in brewing? I had never even heard of the grain until today. Looked it up on...

I've been brewing beer for a long time but I've never tried to calculate my brewhouse efficiency. I used this Brewhouse Efficiency Calculator - Brewer's Friend calculator because it seems like I'm getting a lot higher efficiency than the 75% that I have always heard is considered good. I've been...

So, I have a gallon of this stuff and I'm wondering if anybody has turned it into wine before and have a simple recipe. If not, how would I go about knowing how much sugar to put in it? Really just hoping somebody has made this and has a nice recipe. Thanks Guys.

The sight glass on my hot liquor tank is made out of a piece of 3/8 outside diameter clear rigid tubing. I think I cut a length off of a plastic racking cane to make it. Anyway, it broke on me a couple weeks ago and I just now got around to trying to find replacement tubing but, I don't seem to...

I've got a situation where I have to take a trip for about 1 week. I picked my hops today even though I would have liked to let them go a few more days but, I was scared they would be over ripe when I got back. Anyway, I'm going to leave the air conditioner on in my house at 80° for my snake. Do...

So, I've got this 64 Oz jug of grape juice in the fridge that has been sitting in there forever. I don't mean literally but, apparently no one here wants to drink it. Anyway, I was thinking about doing my first foray into wine making with it. I saw a recipe from a guy who dumped out about a pint...

I made a starter from corny keg dregs and it reached high krausen last night. Turns out that I can't brew until tomorrow. Will the starter be ok on the counter? Should I refrigerate it? Thanks

Here about a week ago, I made a thread asking if lactobacillus could give you diarrhea. Well, that was one bucket out of the 10 gallons. Now, I decided to put the other bucket in The keg because it didn't seem to taste funny and lo and behold! It seems fine. I can glean from this that, my yeast...