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Hey guys, maybe someone can help me. I'm planning to brew a big batch of beer and I'm a bit confused. 80 liter batch (21,13 gallons) OG 1050 Wyeast 1099 or 1056 (yet to decide) 1.- I guess I need around 5-6 million cells per mililiter. Correct? 2.- Following Wyeast's website...

Hey guys, I'm planning on building an inmersion chiller for my blichmann fermenter, something like this: http://brewhemoth.com/immersion-chiller It needs to be small enough to fit through the corny lid, so I can take it out after fermentation. How can I do it? I don't know if its...

Hi, I want to buy a 27 gallon Blichmann fermenter, but I don't have a suitable fridge to put it in. Also I wouldn't have enough space to put the fridge so... I'm thinking of "jacketing" it somehow, but I didn't find any good idea yet. Thanks for your help.

Our contribution to the Homebrewing Experience, we recorded this song in August 2010, since I don't know how to post songs in this forum you can find it in here: http://www.myspace.com/luppulo the song is called "Wish you were beer" Some of you already know that my English is not very...

Hey guys, first, as usual, excuse my english, I don't use it often ok? I'm planning 4 different experiments for tomorrow. I have an Imperial Porter (7%ABV) that has been in primary for a week. Tomorrow I'll rack the 20 litres (5'3 gallons) in four different vessels, 5 litres each (1,5...

I'm planning to brew a Sweet Coffe Chocolate Stout, and have never used those things in my brews so I need some help. It will be a 5 gallon batch, starting from a stout recepie (5%Alc). Fermented for 3 weeks in primary, no secondary. *Lactose: 8 ounces will be added during the boil (15...

I'm brewing an IPA I would like to dry hop, but as I'm not a fan of secondary ferementers I thought that after the first two weeks of fermentation I could simply open the lid and throw inside 50 grams of hops in flower, then let it sit for one more week. What do you think of this method...

I had my first contamination after more than 50 batches. I threw away every plastic element that stayed in contact with the infection. But I am still worried about the bottles. I cleaned them concienciously, with water and soap, I will sanitize them prior to bottling next batch. Will this be...

Ok, here is my story with beer and driving. Ten years ago I was driving after drinking more or less six beers. I was 20 years old and it was a short five minutes trip to my home, I decided to drive because there was no train or bus and it was a very desertical area. Another car "jumped" (I...

Hey, I use to pour my wort over the yeast cake of the previous batch. When I do it I always wander if I should aereate the mixture or not since the yeast has already multiplied, so it has passed it's aerobic phase. But I don't know why I always end up aereating. Is this right? Do you think it...

I've spent my holydays in Germany the last ten days, I tasted lots of beers (just for research) but I think this pic is just amazing. Also, it's my first time posting a pic, and seriouslly I'm really bad with computers so I just hope it works...

I have a RIS that's been fermenting for three weeks, Day 7 I took a gravity reading and It was 1040, Day 14 the gravity was 1040, I opened the lid and stirred the yeast cake. Day 21 the gravity is stil 1040.:( I'm thinking of pitching some more yeast. More details: OG = 1086...

Here, in the Basque Country, is hard to find beers from US, but I recently found a distributor who can send me this two beers: Hobgolin and Anchor Libery Ale, I never tryed them and I want to know if you think they are good beers. Hobgoblin costs 3.5 € and Anchor Liberty Ale costs 3 €. I...

I was wondering if any of you found any improvement in filtering your wort when pouring it in the fermenter. I never filter it and I don't even worry about leaving all the sediment from the boil inside the pot. I always thought that all inside the pot should go inside the fermenter. Prost!

A couple questions: Can I just step flaked barley for getting a better head retention? How much of it would you use for a five gallon batch? What else would it provide to my beer? Taste, aroma, body..? Thanks

Hey, I'm cooling my fermenter in a water bath, where I put 1 litre of ice three times a day. I usually let my beer for four weeks in primary and never use a secondary. Do you think I must put the litre of ice three times a day during the four weeks? Or just during the first week (when...

Do you think a bit of Cinnamon would be nice in a Red Ale? I don't know much about this style, and I plan to brew this beer next saturday. I was wondering what could I experiment with and thought about spices. Has anyone tryed a Cinnamon-Red-Ale? Thanks and greetings

Hello, My Stout needs some help. The temperature of the fermentation room is 24 ºC. :mad: The fermentation bucket rest inside a water bath, every morning I put in the water one liter of ice so the temperature of the fermenter goes down to 20 ºC, I go to work and 8 hours later the...

I'm planning to brew a Vanilla Stout this weekend, and I don't use a secondary so I thought about putting 2 vanilla beans in primary after 5 or 6 days and leave it for three weeks. Do you think it will be a risk of contamination? or maybe... Would it be better to boil the 2 vanilla beans...

I'm planning to brew these two recepies, and as I don't know much about brewing software and I never used Late extract addition It would be great when some of you give me your opinions. Here they go: SOFT GALENA IPA Batch size: 20 L Boil size: 10 L 1 kg Light Dry Extract (8SRM) 2 kg...