I've been looking at small-batch distilling techniques and one of the cool bits of technology used in the process is a more modern replacement for small barrels. These vessels are made of stainless steel tapered pots (called Bain Marie pots and used for restaurant kitchen steam tables). A round...

So I'm going to do a sizeable whiskey mash and I realized that I can end up with a decent "second runnings" wort for a quick batch of some sort of session beer. The grist contains a fair amount of flaked barley and oats but it'll be mashed pretty low-temp so it should be a decent balance between...

I have a couple of kegs of my Guinness-style stout and I'm thinking that I want to zhuzh up one of them and create a bigger, maybe flavored stout. The current beer is very nicely dry, maybe slightly more IBUs than might be perfect (but who's counting? :) ) and with very bold roast flavor. It's...

I credit this beer in a roundabout way to @Sunfire96. Though there have been other discussions around this style, an American iteration, which constituted the Q3 2025 Community recipe got me inspired. For that brew, I simplified the recipe a little (mostly due to ingredients on hand) and came up...

Ya gotta love it when a plan comes together! Attenuation has been a little elusive for me on a lot of brews. Getting that last few percentage points is hard. When beers are 1.011 instead of 1.009 it doesn't hurt much but it would be nice if they get there. It seems like I don't end up breaking...

There are selections for Yeast Starter and Yeast Harvest and Cone Dump but for just pitching dry yeast or even directly pitching liquid yeast we have to use "Other". Would it be difficult to add a Yeast Pitch entry to the drop-down?

I don't know if anyone here is interested but I'm selling off a nice big-batch set up. I could be talked into a road trip of some reasonable distance to meet up or deliver. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/9737324426392564

I want to buy a brick so I'd have to commit to one or the other for a lot of batches. :) These yeasts are supposed to be equivalent to S-04 and Nottingham, respectively, but I'm not sure I trust that they'd really be equivalent. I know that a few here have used the Apex stuff pretty extensively...

Would it be hard to add a feature to allow uploading an image rather than only using profile pic?

The heat here is finally starting to mitigate at least a little and it seems safe to start thinking about something besides a lawnmower style. I'm in the mood for something dark or amber but there are other good options. I'll be putting together a Dark Lager as soon as my Cream Ale is out of the...

My accustomed mash schedule has been the same for a while. Lately, though, I've started looking at some tweaks. I use a HERMS recirculating system and typically, I've done this: - dough in at around .75 quarts per pound and hold at 122 for a protein rest of 15 minutes or so - raise hot liquor...

I ordered yeast from Label Peelers because Apex was on sale. I'd been wanting to try the San Diego and needed a lager yeast so I ordered the Berlin Lager. Shipping was fast - just a few days - and it showed up yesterday. I'd been planning to put on a Cream Ale and wanted to brew with the Berlin...

The Bo Pils I brewed a few weeks ago is starting to clean up (after much more time than usual). I over pitched the yeast because I calculated differently than I have in the past. The yeast is old but has been in the fridge. It was sealed but the food-sealer bag lost its mojo and wasn't holding...

I'm working up a split batch that'll be an Pale Ale and American Amber. Easy enough to use the Pale Ale grist in the mash and boil for the whole batch and add some steeped dark malts to half after the whirlpool. The Amber half of the recipe should work with just the boil/whirlpool hops in the...

I ran my tilt through a fermentation for a couple of weeks but only set it up to forward to BF after it was done. I have a full CSV file of the process but the only entry that appears in my brew session is the last entry after I set up the upload. Is there a way I can get the older entries to...

I typically have a lot of Pilsner on hand and use that for most recipes, adding Munich, Vienna, Victory, etc as needed for color and malt flavor. Right now, though, my inventory is light on Pilsner and I have a lot of Rahr Pale Ale and Standard 2-row as well as a good supply of Maris Otter...

I finally got all the pumps and hoses and controllers doing what they're supposed to do. Crashing an Irish Red and Amber Lager in the small ones and fermenting a Bohemian Pils in the big one. All seems to be working pretty nicely. :)

I've never used nor been particularly eager to use the Tilt devices. Part of it has always been the price. Also since I've used stainless conical fermenters almost exclusively, taking gravity samples is not difficult. Another thing is potential sanitation issues - I'm very leery of anything...

I got a bit later start that I had hoped but managed to get through everything in good time and even got done in time to pick up my grandson from school. :) I'd been wanting to get a good double batch of a lager going so I've been working out the recipe and getting things prepped. I spend some...

My keg fridge is set up with 4 beer taps and a sparkling water tap. The fridge is dedicated to kegs but the freezer is used for meat and stuff. I don't always leave tap handles on but I've been doing so lately. The first few times I opened the freezer door and turned on all my taps let me to put...