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I had a stupid moment and accidentally added pectic enzyme to the end of my wort boil instead of yest nutrient because they are in the same style bottle. I doubt anything weird will happen but does anyone know if it's that bad of a mistake? I did add yeast nutrient also once I realized

I will be trying my 1st dry stout for my next brew. I'm looking for a roasty coffee flavor fairly dominate up front, but on the back end a bitter chocolate bite. So far for a 5 gallon batch I have 6.5lbs pale 2 row, 12oz roasted barley, 4oz of pale chocolate, and I was looking at the srm...

I have bought all my bottle caps from Northern brewers and I've never had an issue till this last batch of caps. I just bottled 2 cases of an English brown ale and I had a cap that didn't seat right so I took it off and tried another. I can turn the caps by hand. I'm using the same bottle capper...

I have about 15 brews under my belt by now and I want to try gelatin to clear. My English ale is done fermentation and I also bottle my beer and prime in the bottle. When and how much gelatin should I add and how should go at it? I'll have to cold crash outside and temperatures are close to...

Hi fellas, I have 8lbs Simpsons English maris otter and 5lbs best Maltz red x. I have us04 yeast and some magnum hops and 2 oz of fuggles. I also have a bunch of denali hops too but I wasn't really thinking about using them. Its gonna be a 6 gallon batch. How should I hop this? I want the magnum...

I just tried my hand at making wild persimmon wine. Its going very well and I finished primary today and squeezed the pulp in prep for secondary. The recipe i used called for not a full volume during primary, but add water and sugar to secondary fermentation. I started at 1.085 and ended at...

I just bottled some beer and I always have trouble cleaning my hoses and racking cane. I got the bright idea to soak isopropyl alcohol in them and it was fine for the vinyl tubing but my bottling wand and racking cane have a thick white power caked on them. Obviously a chemical reaction but how...

I'm going to visit my dad for the weekend and he has grown hops for the first time. He has about 7 oz between challenger, Chinook, and cascade. Hes dead set on a 50/50 rye and wheat beer. Im down for the brew but being a rookie, im not sure how beta glucans work. I know it says rye and wheat can...

I brewed an English brown ale, its a caribou slobber look a like, Saturday and pitched it Saturday evening with lallamand windsor ale yeast. Packet says about 60 to 70 is optimal but my fermentation took off very quickly as I pitched at 68 degrees. By Sunday morning my tilt read 76 degrees and...

if I have a 5 gallon batch of beer that finished out at 1.008, how much sugar does that equate to in weight of sugar thats in my beer? It also started at 1.078

I seriously under hopped my red and its almost undrinkable. I was wondering if there is an additive maybe like bitters they use in mixed drinks to add to the glass after the beer is poured from the bottle

I'm a year into brewing and I tried my hand at an Irish red beer. I used all grain 10 lbs of marris otter, 2lbs briess bondland Munich, 1lb of briess crystal 60L, and 2.75 oz of roasted barley. Made a 5 gallon batch starting with 8 gallons full volume biab. 2 oz of East kent goldings for hops.I...