I've screwed around and put off starting some promised cider for a wedding coming up in mid-May. I have to start some like now. Suggestions on getting it done quickly? I'd like it to be pretty dry but at this point, I'll take what I can get. :) I've done it in the past with a combination of...

I don't know how anyone ever actually uses the pre, post and fermenter volume calculations in the recipe builder. It's complete nonsense. If I select kettle as target and use a figure that I know to be correct for the post boil and hit calculate, it changes both the pre and post boil numbers. If...

Show me your table beers and lawnmower specials! I'm going to put together something that will be a good substitute for Budweiser 55 (perhaps the worst tasting beer in the world). Lone Star was making one called 24/7 but it didn't stick around. That one was actually pretty drinkable if not...

Specifically Tacoma, Port Angles/Elwha River and Whidbey Island as that's our itinerary starting tomorrow. :) We haven't been in a couple of years and I'm really looking forward to being there. I have a few favorite breweries that I hope are still around and a few beers that have become my...

I need to brew my wife's favorite beer - a basic pale ale with Simcoe, Centennial, Mosaic, etc - and I have a huge pitch of very fresh lager yeast. There's a local beer that's a hopped lager (probably mosaic/citra) that she likes, also and there are some other local beers running form session...

Label Peelers has this yeast in their line up and has a brick of lager yeast at a great price. Anyone have any experience with this brand? https://labelpeelers.com/beer-making/beer-yeast/apex-cultures/apex-cultures-munich-true-lager-yeast-500g/

Whose bright idea was it to default to 10 recipes or brew sessions per page? It's incredibly annoying to have to scroll through page after page to find what I'm looking for or have to reset it to 50 every single time to see a full list of recipes. Just set the default to 50 and anyone who can't...

So after brewing for a party that we ended up cancelling because of a funeral that my wife had to attend and then brewing a few double batches for a big wedding that the virus turned into a very, very small wedding, I have more beer in my system than I could ever imagine. Here are the cans that...

I usually just bump all the way up to 68 near the end of fermentation but I'm using some More Beer fermenters with the Peltier chip coolers and they're slow to cool. I don't want to go any higher than necessary so I can save time on getting them back down to lagering temps. My fermentation...

I thought I'd offer up some encouragement to less experienced brewers who are mystified by the "lager" brewing process. For all the hype and legend surrounding lager beers at the homebrew level, it just isn't as difficult as a lot of folks make it out to be. I will add a caveat that it's easier...

Anybody ever use this? Label Peelers has 500g for $45. That's less than 1/5 the price of packets of Fermentis lager yeasts.

I get that the recent changes calculator target/efficiency section are aimed at better accuracy. I know that a lot of thought and effort went into it. I also know that it's caused a hell of a lot of confusion and frustration. One reason for this is that when toggling between Fermenter and...

I'm going to do some double brew days to fill my biggest fermenters and I know I'm going to have to get my brew time down in order to do so. Right now I do a long step-mash and a really slow sparge. I also do a 90 minute boil on most batches, but I can cut that down. Given that tun and boil...

Hey @Yooper...how hard would it be to change the code so the recipe links in Forum threads open in a new window/tab? I always have to remember to save the message I'm composing when I click a recipe link to reference something. It's possible to right click and "open link in new browser" but that...

I've had an interaction with @kerwin here on the forum about some inkbird problems and with an offer to try one of the new programmable Inkbird units for "free". He urged me to order one of the units from an Amazon seller and said that I'd be reimbursed through Paypal. I ordered the unit, got...

Okay...I know at this point that I'm just bitching about things but I really don't understand what has motivated making changes to the recipe editor that result in a much more complicated, unwieldy interface with the inventory items. For the longest time I was able to choose my inventory items...

What is that? It appears in some recipes, doesn't seem to do anything when you click it and then disappears when some changes to the recipe are made. It's at the top right of the fermentables/top left of the hops.

I've been using the BF calculator for several years and it's been great. Now there's the useless (to me) graphics in the recipe view with information that only updates with specific types of log entries, issues with ingredient lists/inventory items and even changes to saved recipes. Plus other...

So I'll be brewing an IPA for a big party and I've been wanting to do something that doubles down on the piney/dank-pot flavor and aroma that I like in the best of the Northwest beers I've tried. I think it'll benefit from a dry-hop addition of something fruity to lend some interesting...

Who's using any sort of spunding/pressure fermentation and what sort of yeasts have you had experience with? I know that some Belgian strains want to stall with pressure but I've been read about spunding to full pressure with a number of different yeasts and they seem to do fine. I'm closing...