Hi, Last night I mini-kegged 5 gallons from cold crash and I am sending another 5 into cold crash today. The issue I'm having is that the temperature reduction from my ale ferment to cold crash temps, is resulting in liquid being sucked back up my blowoff hose. It gets about 1/2 way it seems...

So I've been building up 2 starters from the yeast cake of my last, successful batch. The past week I have had to work, the starters have been in the fridge. I smelled them and they smell like great beer. Nothing looks wrong with them, in the bottom stratified layer there's some green from...

It would be interesting to see pictures of experiments in process, or pictures of current beers that we might have in progress. Here's one from today; I had been wondering whether there would be a visible difference in the appearance of two similar starters, comparing one with o2 introduced...

After writing this, I've come to the conclusion that the subject is probably widely known already as a technique, but since it was new to me, there's probably someone else out there that will find it new as well. Just uncovered the carboy to find the situation in the attached photo. A few...

Is there a way to edit one's own 'brew steps'? I diverge from the Brewers Friend steps in a few places and wanted to record the differences. --- Recording in the brewing notes area should work.

I am mulling over the addition of beano to my extract wort, with a hold period at 100F. I have to define this experimental hold duration, but do not have a good idea of how long it would take the enzymes in beano, namely Alpha galactosidase, invertase and probably others, to begin to affect the...

I am preparing a yeast starter. I read that among other things, dead yeast can be used as a yeast nutrient, but I have never tried it (intentionally). I have some 'debittered brewers yeast', nutritional yeast that can be eaten and I am mulling over adding some to my starter. Anyone see good...

Hi, I've posted before but by way of introduction and where I'm coming from as a brewer - I've moved on from a long stint working on networks, now into H&G product development, and artisanal manufacturing. I have two brewing interests, one is in regard to natural, locally collected sugars...

Hi I have found beer brewing to be a forgiving and rewarding undertaking. I have had many successes though I understand little of what I am doing, have many blind spots and just enough luck to compensate. Could I please get thoughts on the following experiment? I searched the forum but...