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We are making a raspberry sour ale. The raspberries are from the garden. They have been washed and rinsed and frozen. We will add them to the secondary. Is there any risk introducing a bacteria after adding to the secondary? Do you have a particular method to do this?

Hello all , I ordered imperial yeast a07 and it arrived by mail. I was under the impression it would arrive with dry ice I guess. It didn’t and has been active during transport. The bag is inflated and ballooned. I placed it in the refrigerator. I don’t plan to brew for a week or more. I hate to...

Hello all , I ordered imperial yeast a07 and it arrived by mail. I was under the impression it would arrive with dry ice I guess. It didn’t and has been active during transport. The bag is inflated and ballooned. I placed it in the refrigerator. I don’t plan to brew for a week or more. I hate to...

I put together a cider a few weeks ago. I used 4.5 gallons cider, 2#s brown sugar, and 1# white sugar. Pitched a champagne yeast. I just wanted something easy and simple. It's been sitting in the primary since July 15th. I plan on bottling it this Wednesday with priming sugar, just as I would a...

I plan on doing a simple apple cider tommorow and hoping someone with more experience could give some input. I'm shooting for a slightly sweet carbonated apple cider when finished. And Ill be bottling it. Im making it for myself and a friend who has no smell receptors, beers all seem to taste...

I was planning on dry hopping my IPA tonight but got to thinking how I should go about doing it. I have 1 oz of citra left over from earlier Im going to use. Whats the risk of infecting my batch with bacteria or something using this open bag of hops Ive had stored in my freezer? I don't...

Ok im really worried now about this one. Before pitching the yeast I got an OG that read 1.140 how could this be? I was brewing up a hefeweizen. Heated 2lbs wheat 155 degrees for 30 min. 6lbs of wheat extract for 15 mins boiled 1 oz of hallertau hop pellets for 45 mins and 25 oz for 15...

My first brew, mistakes where made and lessons where learned. Ill spare the details because I didnt pay any attention to them since I had no idea what I was doing. Mistakes: I probably heated my grains to long I scorched the liquid malt and noticed a few black flakes floating around but...