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So i cracked 24lbs of grain, it's all ready to roll in my mash tun. Probably can't actually get to a brew until at least Sunday. Can i just leave them sealed in the mash tun till Sunday?

Hoping to brew Friday. Just finishing up a Czech Pils and want to split the cake to make two 5 gallon batches. I was thinking of making a Maibock or Festbock, making one standard and one with tart cherries. But i'm concerned about the yeast. Will Pils play nice with a Bock?

Hey Guys, I'm looking for a good style to push the limits of on the cold side. I want to make 10 gallons of hopped wort and then divide into two fermenters and make two totally different beers. Leaning towards a wheat right now, just because you can do so much with various adjuncts. Any...

A friend of mine gave me about 2 lbs of wet harvested vacuum sealed frozen hops from Northern Maine. I have no idea what kind of hops they are...I don't really want to open the packs until i know what my plan is. So....maybe a SMASH with some small amount? Anyone ever do this? What...

So I made my starters, I'm at an FG of 1.010 and i'm currently at my d-rest. I'm using a brewpi and have a very long ramp from d rest to lagering temps (30 days). I made this based on the lager fermentation profile in beersmith. So right now my plan is this. Rack the beer to...

So i have a flat bottomed pot....100qt 22" diameter. I am trying to figure out the best way to drain this thing. If my dip tube is even a small amount off the bottom, i leave behind a gallon or so of wort. I just don't want to have to deal with buying extra grain for this level of planned...

So have a 100qt kettle that has something like a 22" diameter. I can only find 17" false bottoms. so two questions: 1. is it a problem if the bag falls off the rack a bit? (I assume that there is a risk of grain scorching.) 2. Where could I find a false bottom of this size? Only custom...

So i just made my first lager. Made a starter of about 4.5 billion cells of Wyeast 2633. Hit my gravities, pitched at about 50F. Fermentation took off. Life was good. Didn't think about it much. threw it on a heating schedule of primary 54F for 14 days then bring it up to the 62 for 4 days and...

So i'm doing a proper Oktoberfest Lager that i'm going to store through the summer. Thinking of doing the lagering in my Bourbon Barrel. Anyone ever have an oak/bourbon oktoberfest? Seems a bit questionable to me soooooo asking the community.... :fro:

I am making a 7% short mead/melomel. I used 6.25 lbs of orange blossom honey with Lalvin D47. This means that the yeast won't be shutting down due to alcohol limits. I want to add about 11 lbs of peaches to it. I am afraid that it will simply ferment the peach flavor out. I don't really like...

I have a glycol setup with 4 chambers 3 are heated and cooled 1 is cooled only (brite tank). Anyone know if the new BrewPi spark can handle this? I see lots of promises around the net but no signs of actual delivery....anyone know? Thanks! Teh

So i'm brewing up the NB Head Scratcher India Pale Weizen. It's a hoppy wheat beer. It calls for 2 oz of cascade to be dry hopped into it. Cascade is no my favorite hope, the beer has 3 oz of tettnanger for 60 minutes and is low abv. Any thoughts on replacements of the cascade dry hop? just...

Hi all, I just got a new (to me) 5 gallon barrel and am hoping to use it as a home for some wild bugs. I was thinking that maybe I could age beer in there for a short time to inoculate it and then once thoroughly inoculated remove it to a carboy. So to do this i need to learn a few...

So i caught my own yeast out of the air and made a yeast bank. Just made my first beer with it. Came out great! Saved some of the trub (which i used gelatin in as a fining agent) on Sunday. Put it in a sanitized sealed bottle in the fridge. I want to use it on a new beer on Friday. I have a...

So i happen to have a 5lb cylinder of pure N2 and a regulator. I am making a saw tooth nitro (by left hand) clone. I am going to carb it at about 3psi and then put it on tap. I have 10 ft beer lines. What pressure should i serve at with the N2 (again not beer gas)? Since my desired...

So i had a 90 min recipe and didnt notice that fact till the 60 minute mark. Was able to pull out my hop spider and keep boiling, but i generally throw my irish moss directly into the boil....what if any issues can i expect from boiling 2.4 grams of irish moss for 40 minutes or so?

So i was chilling my beer to clear and apparently got a bit aggressive with my temps. froze the beer to a slushy consistency. I'm warming it up a bit now to thaw. will this hurt the beer in any way? Will the everything mix back up happily again? Do I need to do anything to facilitate that...

So i have 7 month old Flanders Red i'm thinking of adding cherries to...Kriek it up a bit... I'm in Maine and cherries aren't the most common fruit around so this is probably going to take some searching to find the right stuff.... given that info...what are the best varieties of cherries...

I have a flat bottom kettle and it seems i'm always waging a war with getting the last of my wort out and either not clogging my dip tube with hops or trying to find a way to filter them out. Towards that end, I was wondering if anyone had ever used a stainless braid as a dip tube...

I've got a 6 month old flanders red with roeselare yeast....was thinking of racking it onto 10 lbs of cherries when they come into season. Anyone ever try this? Any other ideas for fruit additions?