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I'm changing the way I operate my home brewery, and upgrading some parts of it. I'm putting in a vorlauf/sparge line to improve my mashing and lautering. This has involved taking the march pump from my kettle/whirlpool and installing it on my mash/lauter tun. I'd like to avoid buying a...

Hi all. I have been charged with making a Lithuanian Monastic Beer, and am having some trouble. I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience or information regarding traditional lithuanian beers. Specifically there was talk of using pea flour in this beer, and try as I might I can find...

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum, but here goes. I need to remove the chlorine from my water. It is producing a hospital smell in my otherwise excellent blond beers that I really cant stand. I read a bunch on it and it seems that water can be de-chlorinated by either leaving it...

So I have a half a gallon of maple syrup I've been planning on adding to a brew. I had a recipe around here somewhere that calls for 2 liters of maple syrup. However when I looked at the sugar content on the syrup, there are 32 servings containing 53 grams of sugar each. 32x53=1696...

Maybe this is a dumb question, but do you guys do anything to your hops to prevent them from infecting the beer when you dry-hop? Or do you just rack onto the pellets, and leave it at that?

The braggot I brewed recently has developed some unexpected flavors. I brewed a regular strength beer with Safale-05, and when the fermentation subsided, I added two pounds of blackberry honey. The whole thing came in at 8%ABV. It's bottled now, and when I went to get my first taste, I...

[/URL][/IMG] The glass on the left is star san I just mixed up. On the right is star san I made about a week and a half ago. I used it only to sanitize one carboy. What causes my star san solution to go cloudy? Is it the length of time I leave it, or the dirt and junk I expose it to...

I've noticed that three of my beers have now noticeably formed a pellicle, leading me to believe my siphoning, and possibly other equipment has been infected. I'm pretty unhappy, and am ready to do a massive clean before I brew my I.P.A tomorrow. Generally I just use star san to sanitize...

OK so Monday I brewed a pale ale. I added a pack of wyeast witbread ale yeast. After more than 24 hours I got seriously concerned at the total lack of fermentation, and repitched a wyeast german ale yeast. After another 20 hours or so, I still see no signs of fermentation. Should I go ahead and...

So I'm brewing with my new equipment for the first time today. This meant grinding with my new drill powered grain mill, Mashing in my new mash tun, boiling in my kettle, and then running the wort in through my new march pump and counterflow chiller. However when I reached the chilling part...