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Would it be good to age some apple hard cider on some mashed up pears in secondary? I have a small pear tree and only got like 20-30 lbs of pears. Could i maybe grind up 20 lbs of pears and add them to secondary or would it be a waste of pears?

Hi, I have been brewing for years and haven't bottles in over a decade. I was wondering if anyone has experience carbonating bottled beer quickly, like 10 days? My wife is teaching a class about beer and she has a short window to ferment and bottle some beers. I was hoping she could bottle...

Does anyone have an idea of where the Lalbrew brewing yeasts were sourced and what brewery they might have come from? Specifically, I was curious about these: BRY-97 London Diamond Windsor New England - heard and assumed it is a version of Conan

I keep getting Amoretti flavoring/puree ads in FB. Anyone try their products in a beer?

Hi, I want to try using a mortar and pestle or spice grinder to make a powder/paste out of some fresh vanilla beans and add them to a stout. has anyone done this? I am going to add the powder/paste to a keg along with some cacao nibs and coconut and then rack a fermented stout onto it for a...

I've noticed there are now at least a couple alternatives to US05 if you want a dry American yeast that attenuates well and is very clean: -CellarScience CALI dry yeast -Lalbrew Bry97 west coast ale yeast -there may be others i haven't seen Has anyone compared the ones I mentioned or others...

Hey, I brew a lot of Pils each year, but I usually load up the hop stand to make it a hop bomb. It's probably more of an IPL I guess. I usually use Ekuanot, but I was thinking about using some Saaz instead to make it a German Pils and cutting back the amounts some. I usually throw in 1 oz/gal...

I have been reading about yeasts that might be very closely related to London Ale III. I am assuming Imperial Juice and Lallemand Verdant are almost identical. Does anyone know if any other commercial yeasts are basically clones of LAIII, maybe with just a very few changes? I was thinking RVA...

Brewed a 1.064 brown ale with WY1450. Was thinking of re-using the yeast at the bottom of the fermentor for an imperial stout. I never re-use yeast anymore so I’m a little worried/concerned. What method will be safest to get no off-flavors? Wash, no wash, swirl in dregs of beer and pour in...

I’ve now fixed two freezers just by replacing the compressor overload relay. Try it before junking your freezer if it stops working!

Hey, a friend brought me a case of TH IPAs recently after several months without tasting one. I remember them being absolutely amazing and this time they were hard for me to finish. They taste very similar in yeast, malt, fermentation, attenuation but the hopping tastes different. They taste...

Hey, I am making a wine kit with D47 and really like the character I'm getting in the nose from the fermentation. I was thinking about trying a couple packs of D47 in a pils malt wort to see what happens. I would add glucoamylase to the carboy at pitching to break down all of the dextrins and...

Hey, I've been thinking about upgrading my fire pit. I just use a crap big box one that is smoky. I was looking at the Solo Stove, which seems to use secondaries like in my wood stove to burn efficiently and not put out much smoke at all once going. People also seem to use old washing...

Hey, I am making my first wine kit and want to keg it. I have been reading what people do and it sounds like my typical beer gas (for nitro beers) would be an option. Practically speaking, if I set my beer gas regulator at like 2 psi with a faucet directly on the keg post or with a tiny length...

Hey, I am doing my first white wine kit. It is a 6 gallon kit. I was hoping to ferment it in a 6.5 gallon glass carboy so I can get it going soon. Is ~0.5 gallons enough room or will it blow off? If it will blow off, I'll just wait until by Fermonster is free.

I'm sick of wasting the first few oz of beer every time I pour for the first time for an evening to get rid of the oxidized beer in the line. However, I also just coil up my beer line on top of my keg and use a picnic tap in my keezer to eliminate having to use beer taps and for simplicity. Is...

I found several small chunks of what looks to be concrete in my last sack of TF&S Maris Otter! Anyone else? Puts new meaning to “floor malted”!

Hey, I'm looking to add a nitro beer to my beer list for a summer party I am throwing. My favorite beers I've done on nitro were a Bell's Best Brown and a Pumpkin Pie Spice Ale that were both absolutely incredible. however, I thought it might be nice to dial back the malt a bit for a summer...

i've had troubles with keg king quick disconnects on some of my kegs using both the gas and beverage fittings. is it just me or are the keg king disconnects shitty?! i'm going to buy CMB from now on...

Hi, I have been debating a good way to keep corny kegs cold at parties. i have been using 5 gallon cylindrical beverage coolers, but they are kind of annoying and don't really fit a corny keg well. what have others tried that seem to work well? i was thinking of 10G cylindrical coolers...