Hi all! Imagine this: you are finishing up a brew day, cleaning up the fridge for your fermenting vessel when you uncover a forgotten bottle of brew that's ice cold and inviting. Naturally, when it is 105 F outside and you brew in a garage, you are going to want a beer, right? That is what I...

Hi all, Making a schwarzbier with S-23 for a local competition. After a 72-hour lag time, fermentation took off after I warmed the wort up a little by leaving it in my warm garage. It was initially around 42F and after warming up it was about 50 degrees, which is low but near the recommended...

Hello all, This is just a simple information post about a recent (accidental) experiment I conducted. After completing a batch of blonde ale, I decided to ignore all advice available to me and pitched a pack of Lutra Kviek at 118F. I used the dried version by Omega. Although I did not see any...

Hi all, Planning on doing a schwarzbier for a local competition, but I do not know how long to hold my specialty roasted malts in the mash for. I am using chocolate malt, roasted barley, and Carafa II. I am also doing a half batch, so there is very little of each grain. How long should I have...

Hello All, I have been having bad luck with Belgian yeast recently. My first batch was a Belgian Wit, with coriander and orange peels. Although I know where I messed up on that one (pitching when wort was too warm), this recent brew has the same issue. It is an 805 Clone, the link to the recipe...

Hey all, Doing my first NEIPA, but am worried about oxygenation. For the transfer, I was planning on shoving a tube into my spout on my fermentor and flowing the beer directly into a purged keg through the CO2-in post with my hops in it. I also plan on adding 4g of ascorbic acid with the hops...

Greetings all, After yesterday’s brew day (and 1 too many homebrews), me and my buddies came up with a plan for our next brew day. I understand stouts are made with hard mineral-y water, so we thought that perhaps a good idea is to harvest the water from an underground cave waterfall near us...