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What's up everybody? Happy Memorial Day to all of you. I am a fellow homebrewer in need of a little help because it's time for me to get back on the homebrew horse. Last June I got into a car accident and broke the 2 biggest bones in my leg. So that put my brewing on the back burner...

Man it sucks having to work for a living! I know most of y'all feel my pain but my work life really got in the way of my brewing life for the last couple months. I was able to brew a blonde on the 6th of July but when I crash cooled it (somewhere around 7-21) I have had to leave it there...

I've been battling my burner for most of the time I've had it. It is a double burner stand and it always got hot enough to do the job so I thought it was ok but it has marked all of my pots with soot every time I use them. The flame was always yellow and it stopped burning out of half of the...

Just brewed a no-chill fest bier yesterday and somehow missed my volume and gravity by a lot. Supposed to have 6g post boil and got 5gallons instead. And my gravity is off in the same way - 1.069 instead of 1.053 like it was supposed to be. So, without just adding a gallon to get my...

Well, I'm just having horrible luck with my nut browns. First couple were great, next few not as much. My recent batch developed an infection that I let it sit on. The infection subsided and the big gray bubbles went down and now sit on top of the beer looking pretty harmless. I've...

My nut brown ale was definitely infected. Sorry for the lack of pics but I didn't take any. Beer developed small gray bubbles on top that turned into big gray bubbles. I've let it sit in the bucket for a looooong time now and all of the bubbles have died down. So, I'm about to rack this...

Brewed one last year from AHS and it was pretty good. But I'm looking for something a little better. I am AG but I haven't done decoction or step mashes yet. I might have to read up on them if they are indeed necessary for making a great marzen. Really looking forward to getting this...

Ok I get the basics. Get voile material and sew it up. No big deal. But what has proved to be the best design? I really want to jump from my traditional AG setup to what looks like a really easy BIAB process. If anybody has any good tips or suggestions, please let me know Thanks and...

My Pecan Bourbon Stout is currently resting peacefully in my keezer at 38F for a nice crash cooling. I'm pretty sure I will try to enter this one in a competition so I'm considering clarity more than I ever have before for a stout. My question is, should I use gelatin? Leave it alone with...

Well, I was ready for bottling a week ago. Now I realize that fermentation of my oatmeal stout has started up again, but I now have an infection growing on the top of my beer. Is there anything that can be done to save her? Should I rack it to secondary to get away from the infection on top...

Hey everybody, long time poster and first time stuck sparger! What a giant mess and I'm still knee deep in it. So, my question is after I just added a gallon of boiling water to help get my beer unstuck, can I just add the next batch sparge like I would have and just cut off the sparge when...

Had a good recipe going for my Roasted Jalapeno Cream Ale but my Lhbs forgot to combine my flaked maize with the other ingredients. So, my cream beer has no corn in it. I wonder if there's anything I should do with it to help with the creamy mouthfeel that I wanted from the corn. Is there...

My Roasted Oatmeal Stout sounded like a winner. Brew went ok, but my OG was a little low (supposed to be 1.072 but ended up with a 1.064) and now, even worse, is I can't get her under 1.030! I have fermented since 1/19, it had a good vigorous fermentation, but it stalled out at 1.030. So...

Just brewed a wonderful smelling Vienna Lager yesterday. My mash ended up too low to begin with and dropped a bit during 60 minute mash (supposed to be 152, started off at 150 and ended up with 147 or 148). My gravity was supposed to be 1.054 but of course I fell way short of that with a...

Been thinking about doing up an AG oatmeal but I wanna do it extraordinary instead of just plain Oatmeal. I found Rhoobarb's Damned kids recipe and it looks pretty good. Anybody have any recommendations or tips?

Just curious cuz I've done it a couple times now. You know, trying to get a bottling session going and then find out that you don't have time to do it. And the next thing you know it's been 4 days till you can bottle. But the last time I did this is when I think I ended up with a really...

Hey guys, I am living with the loco locals here in South Texas so I frequently get requests to brew a Mexican cerveza. And also my good buddy from the Marines has been bugging me for something that will remind him of our weekend trips to Tijuana (sent him a donkey video but that's not what he...

I know theres a couple No-chillers out there. My question is, has anybody done their no chill beer without adjusting the hop schedule? Kinda curious about doing it because I have already brewed as if I was going to chill, and now I really don't want to. I know the beer will have longer...

Holy Crap! Stopped in the store last night looking for something a little different when I saw a pack of Guinness with a different looking label. It was $7 for a four pack and it was called their Foreign Extra Stout. After reading the label I was intrigued enough to check it out, and let me...

Does anybody keg with a gram or so of fresh yeast to help condition their beer clean and fast? Just curious. I've started doing it with my bottles, but wondering about doing it with my kegs as well Cheers