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Hi everyone, My wife and I recently bought a hot sauce making kit from more beer. This is our first time ever doing it and I noticed that there's a murky-dusky like stuff on the bottom. I'm posting some pictures. If someone whose familiar could take a look and let me know if this is...

Hi All, Hoping this is more of a simple question; but I generally brew with ale yeast not lager yeast. This year for my Oktoberfest instead of using a kolsch yeast I used a German lager yeast. I chose WLP830, made a 1.5L Starter and let it go. It fermented quite well in the starter and i put...

Hi Everyone, I recently made my own mother in a 2L jar and decided that i wanted to brew more so i upgraded to a 1 gallon jar. When i did this and dropped the mother i had into it, it floated for the first day then just disappeared. Now i currently have what looks like a new mother forming in...

This is interesting. I've done starters before but have never seen a yeast take off like this so quickly before. I'm only 10 hrs in and there appears to be a ton of yeast at the bottom, so much so that it's forming yeast rafts already. This is wlp067 which contains diastaticus. I was wondering...

I recently got a report from my local water company and it came out to the following. PH of 8.3 I was wondering, what an ideal water profile would look like, and to see if what this is a good starting point for. I'm new to thinking about water profiles, but have recently started reading John...

Hi everyone, As it's winter in California I decided to run an experiment. I generally ferment in my fridge but it's currently in use by a keg. I got an OG on my wort of 1.062 and am fermenting like I did when I first started extract brewing, in the closet. The experiment is regarding how much...

Hi all, giving my first beer recipe a go and wanted to get some feedback. I've entered it into Brewers friend and was hoping for some feedback. I'm going for a citrusy/lemony flavor in an IPA. I was thinking about dropping the bittering hops all together or adding in 1oz of citra at 30 min...

Hi all, My yeast is a bit more active than I was expecting in a 1 gallon jug. It blew the three piece airlock out 3 times prior to getting shot up into the air and onto the floor. I tried to making a blow off tube, but unfortunately don't have any tubing that is a small enough to fit it. So I...

I've been drinking stone beer for quite a while now and of course sincerely enjoy the flavor profile. I've recently been seeing more and more often them having their "Ruination sans filtre." I was wondering some things about this as I'd totally love to grab their yeast and have to ask 1. Is...

Hi, I'm fairly new to doing starters so I was hoping someone could take a look at this to let me know what they think. I generally ferment in a bucket so I'm not used to seeing the Krausen form. But I'm using a new yeast here and want to make sure all is good I'm using the WLP029 and have no...

Hi everyone, I'm interested in learning how to make wine from grapes. I was thinking about starting with a santiovese kit but have a few questions. I'm already invested in the beer, and wouldnlike to know what more equipment I may need. I figure I'll need an oak barrel ( 5 gallon) to...

Question regarding campden tablets, I recently purchased a 100 pack to use for my brewing water since my city cleans with the chlorine and chloramine. I was wondering, how soon after using the tablet can I start using the water to make the wort and then then pitch the yeast thereafter. I've...

Hi all, I missread the recipe for the neipa that am making and I dry hopped at day 3 instead of only for 3 days. I'm now on day for and was planning to dry hop again on Friday. My question is, when I dry hop the new bag should I fish out the old one? I'm using citra, Galaxy and mosaic hops...

Hi All, I'm working on a new beer recipe and was interested to see what you all think. It's currently fermenting so it's going to be more of an explanation so we'll see how this goes. I started out with 7.5 lbs of American Wheat (american because i started making it on the 4th) 3 lbs of...

Hi all, I'm interested in getting a fridge for fermentating, I'm limited on space and I've been looking at a 4.4cu ft fridge to convert. The problem it seems is that you have to build it out with wood, and my girlfriend isn't keen at all on that idea because the fridge would be in the dining...

Hi all, I'm interested in getting a fridge for fermentating, I'm limited on space and I've been looking at a 4.4cu ft fridge to convert. The problem it seems is that you have to build it out with wood, and my girlfriend isn't keen at all on that idea because the fridge would be in the dining...

Hi, I'm still relatively new to homebrewing and one of the things that I hate is bottling. It's time consuming and outside of about 4 weeks the bottles stop tasting as good as they did the day I was bottling. I'm interested in kegging to save time and slightly improve the quality of my brew. I...

HI All, I attempting to make a Hefeweizen recently, and to keep it cool, tried the swamp cooler. The problem that i ran into with this is that when i put the hef into it i dropped a 1 gallon water jug to keep the temps down. It fermented at what i think was 60* or so, but i wasn't able to amply...

Hi All, I was contemplating making or buying a mash tun. I have watched various videos and done a little research in regards to making a mash tun. However, it seems like it is simple to do, however the bottom filter that you get doesn't look as though it'd be as effective or easy to clean as...

Hi all, I plan to make an extract cream ale and then after fermentation is done, add vanilla beans and cinnamon to it. My question is, should I rack it to a secondary for this or can I pour it into the primary? I should make note that I plan to soak a cinnamon stick and a few vanilla beans...