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I am realy excited to try Kviek yeast strains! I stopped brewing for a few years when I purchased a business and had a few kids. I am slowly getting back into it and today I made a Kolch so I can play with LalBrew Kviek Voss yeast and realy see how this yeast works. I also plan to wash and...

I have an issue, I bought a few kegs for my old man a few years ago off ebay and one of them is a racecourse style keg. As the name implies its not a perfect oval shape lid, and it has almost flat sides and has a shape lick a racecourse. The keg lid has a hole drilled in it and a plastic...

Does anyone know what the pressure rating of coopers crown seal long necks? I am bottling a tripel today and want to know if the will take over 3 vols.

I have a few questions regarding these barrels I acquired a year ago, my sweet as brewing brother in law found some equipment on ebay including wine press, 6 barrels with airlocks, and a grape crushed for under $500. I bought them for my cider trees and am planning to brew a heap of cider but...

Does anyone know what the average store bought 'dry enzyme' is? Is it Fungal α-amylase or is it α-amylase? I have a feeling its the fungal variety and if so are they similar, meaning can it be used in the mash like a-amylase. I assume the fungal variety its the same only it comes from plants...

So I was going to throw some saaz in at flame output got busy and forgot, when should I dry hop? In primary? It would probably only get a few days or in the secondary during lagering? Or in the keg?

I have used whirlfoc only 3 times, the first few where for ale's and I was shoked how much trub and break fell out but I could see it was all clumped together like little clouds and shed loads of wort was still in-between the trub and break. I decide to not to use it again due to varying...

Is anyone else having issues uploading recipes? I have tried Chrome and Explorer and I cant seem to add hops, yeast, misc etc. etc. I can add grains that's it. Also why is Briess malt not available? I also tried commenting on a recipe last week and that wouldn't work either.

Has anyone brewed the Anchor Steam clone on the Beersmith recipe downloads? And if so did you use the amylase enzyme? I have dry enzyme which I assume is the same thing, should I add this or leave it out. Also beersmith doesn't seem to change the FG with the amylase enzyme in the recipe, I know...

So I have had 2 infections in the past month, never had any before. I did a Saison a month ago and it was stuffed so put it through the alcohol condenser (nudge nudge, wink wink). AND it has happened again to a Kolsch I brewed around the same time. I think it was the my immersion chiller that...

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I usually make my own starters and add washed yeast. I was a bit bored this morning and got another 7 mini cubes organised for my next few brews, thought I would post as someone might find interesting/useful. I find this super easy using old mustard/condiment bottles, I add the hot wort and...

Howdy, I made my first 'Scottish Heavy 70/' a few days ago and caramelized 3.8Lt of wort in a pot, then added it back to the boil for a 21Lt batch. I wasn't really sure how far to go with the reducing as I didn't want to burn the proteins in the wort, as they surely would have burnt before the...

Hey guys, Did a quick search doesn't seem to be much information on Red Earth Hops has anyone used these or know what they are? Thinking of adding them to my hop garden. Chef.

This is going to be a stupid question I can just tell. Does anyone regularly flatten there beer from the fermenter before taking a hydrometer reading. In the past I have just taken a reading straight from the fermenter and left it at that, but I recently decided to flatten the beer by pouring...

I have been washing yeast for awhile and I usually make 1 lt starters to ensure the yeast is healthy especially when it's a few months old. I made a beer 2 days ago and as I have too busy I just pitched 2 of my washed yeast samples which would be about 50ml. The yeast was 3 months old and...

My wife and I are going to Vietnam in July and she just showed me an article in the Lonely Plant book about Bai Hoi which is a mid strength beer sold on the streets in Vietnam usually around 3% or less. Anyway's it gets sold in bucket and need to be consumed on the day that the brewery releases...

Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for raw wheat other than a home brew store as the nearest is 2.5 hours away. I have seen on some american forums people have used wheat from stock feed stores, has anyone given this a crack? Also I am wanting to grow some barley on my...

What defines a clone beer? Cloning is a exact copy of a cell, how can we clone a beer? I apologise for the stupid question but I am honestly interested as to why its called a clone beer. :huh:

I am fairly new to all grain brewing, I use a BIAB set up and have just started using beersmith2. When I convert recipes from therecipeDB I seem to be getting different IBU's, EBCS, and OG/FG than what is in the recipeDB sheet?? Should I adjust the recipe specs in the software to get the exact...