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Howdy there, It has been a while since I posted on this forum and pretty much the same about brewing. Until now I have mainly brewed on the electric kitchen stove out of a 8 qt pasta pot. Barely big enough for a 1 gallon all grain BIAB and not much better for a 2.5 gallon extract...

Hello, I am looking to start an new batch of hard cider tomorrow using mangrove jack cider yeast and trader joe's juice. My previous batches were smelling pretty bad so this time I will had some yeast nutrients. In beers you get them during the boil, what about cider, just throw them in or...

Hello Guys, I brewed this on 12/27/15 bottled on 04/05/16 it was still a tad too hot when I bottle it so I decided to give it a few month hoping it will tame down and be ready as a xmas present for the in-law. That being said I just reorganized my closet and look at those 10 bottles and...

Well this is a first for me I ran out of ice, and the wort is well over 100 ... no fermentation chamber here so wait and see is going to be the name of the game .... as for buying ice, well that's too much of a drive for us here Happy brewing guys ... PS : on the plus side I found one...

Hello, I was wondering if the dry hopping and cold crashing could be done at the same time or not ? I have the feeling that no but I though it was worth a question. Xavier

Hello, I am on my 12th batch, 3rd all grain and finally (yes I know it was about time) I got an hydrometer. So for once I took my OG gravity and I am now looking at a low efficiency. Can you guys tell me if I am off in my calculation. 1 gallon batch stout. BIAB 1.65 gallon for...

Hi Guys, I took the habit of harvesting my slurry from each batch and reuse it for next one (well at least must of the time ) and until the last harvest I could always see two layer, the true at the bottom and then the yeast above and of couse liquid above, as can be seen in the US 05 jar...

Hey Guys, I have been doing a few brew lately and I am running into multiple issue, tackling them one at a time. I am confronted to a lack of body on many of them, they are just watery feeling and was wondering what else I could use other than malto dextrine for an extract brew ?

Well all my cider endeavor have leaded me right in the wall. I can take apple juice (sorry can't find anything else affordable here) and turn it into an alcoholic beverage but nothing that will make me looking to open the next bottle. I like my cider dry and fruity. I tried a few recipe on...

mini mash : 1lbs 6 row and 1 lbs flaked maize ( the LHBS guy crushed it all together :confused: ) in 1.5 gallon at 150 F for 30 min. 2 lbs of briess DME pilsner and tablet of wirfloc at 15 min. After cooling in the sink the entire kettle looked and behaved liked a viscous soup cold...

I just put together a mead and the stopper keep popping up since minute 1. Any idea on how to get this under control ?

I have done montrachet cider and ended up with a really tart product using the same apple juice as usual and was wondering if it was just the strain that product such a tart cider or the batch got infected ...

well yesterday was my 6th beer bottling day, add to it 2 batch of cider and you have my entire brewing experience in front of you. That being said before yesterday all the batch were 1gallon, yesterday was a 2.5 gallon batch. I have not been able to have a good bottling experience so far but at...

well this will be in the cream ale style 3 lbs extra pale lme 6 oz honey malt 2 oz biscuit malt 0.5 oz perle hop at 60 minute us 05 harvested from a previous batch 2.5 gallon in the fermentor. any comment is welcome, I am looking to get an easy to drink refreshing beer, I am...

well I am as green as it gets in term of brewing experience, 5 batch so far all 1 gallon and 2 ciders of these 7 attemps two are still fermenting. But for lunch today I opened a bottle of cream ale brewed on 09/06 and bottled on 09/26. I cold crash it for 4 days at 40 in the kitchen fridge and...

well sounds like I will live in this part of the forum for a while each fermentation bringing a new question, this time a cider and a nut brown ale. quick background both 1 gallon, no hydrometer and fermeting in the middish 60's, home is in the upper 70's and fermetters are in a 5 gallons pail...

alright this month will see me brewing my first all grain. I just got back from home depot and boy oh boy all their coolers had a really bad smell. What did you guys do to remove that smell, how long did it take ? I was aiming for next saturday as a brew day but after smelling those coolers I...

hello there, I have done only extract beer so far but I am looking forward to do my first al grain. That being said I am having a hard time to block 5 hours with 2 kids running around and was wondering if it was possible to do the mash in the evening and the boil in the morning, I am...

I brewed a cream ale 10 days ago, the airlock does not show any activity anymore and I do not have a way to take a gravity reading. That being said I still have krausen on top of the beer and I was wondering if the krausen always fall back or if it can from time to time stay on top of the beer...

hello, On my first beer brew, I harvested the yeast and had a lot of fun doing it (and reusing it). I am actually finishing the fermentation of a blonde ale that would be clarified using gelatin, the yeast cake will then be used to ferment cider. Would the process be the same after the...