Hello, I just took the second batch out of my Fermzilla and both times I have had gas leaks and liquid leaking from the collection jar. My first use I just chalked it up to user error. This time I sealed and tested for two days using 20 pounds of pressure and it held pressure and no Starsan...

Hi, Not my best brew day yesterday. Made Helles and had several problems through the day but got through it and actually hit my numbers. Pitched yeast at WLP838 at 48 degrees around 6 last night. At about 7:00 my son in law is describing how he wants to led light my bar and back bar mirror and...

Brewing a Dunkel Bock New Year’s Day and had something I hadn’t seen before. During the boil I had a normal hot break and thenwhat appeared to be hot beaks multiple times during the 90 minute boil. I was boiling a little harder than normal to make up .007 points of gravity, but I have done that...

Hi I was wondering if there would be any advantage to steeping the darker grains for part of the mash, 20 minutes maybe, versus just mashing them? Thanks

I was am brewing a recipe from a rather famous home brewers book and when I entered into my spreadsheet had a wildly different IBU result than the recipe called out. My next step was to enter it into the Brewer’s Friend IBU Calculator an the results were of course different again. Book recipe...

Has anyone entered the same beer in two different categories in the same competition? I am thinking about doing so. I brewed a Märzen and it seems to be a bit of a tweener. It’s a tasty Mäzen but a little light in color and perhaps flavor, which puts it on the high end of a Fest Beer. The idea...