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I noticed yesterday that my hops leaves were showing signs of distress. I have never planted anything before this so I went to google to try and diagnose and as far as I could tell it could be anything from over watering to under watering to lacking nutrient to disease. Is anyone able to help me...

So my wife asked me to clone mill street vanilla porter, which if you aren't familiar with is a toronto based vanilla bomb. I checked their site and the listed ingredients are pale malt, caramel, biscuit, flaked wheat, roasted barley, pure vanilla extract Nugget hops and American Ale yeast. abv...

I brewed a cream ale on the 30th using us-05 at 62 degrees. It had an og 1.048 and was still bubbling away every 15 seconds or so. I checked the gravity and it was at 1.008 which surprised me so I transfered it for cold conditioning. Should I have left it longer? How much lower could it go...

So my recipe was originally based on an oatmeal stout recipe but I've changed the grain bill a bit and I'm wondering if it still qualifies as a stout or if that's almost academic. Recipe was: 3.2 kg LME 750 g maris otter 750 g flaked oats 400 g caramel 77*L 300 g pale chocolate 200 g...

So my LHBS is putting on a competition to create their next house kit. The winner will get free kits for a year. The rules of the competition are that it must be extract , has to be 5 gallons, and that the ingredients must be easy to source. most of their kits are American ales, lagers...

K so this is probably a stupid question but if I use a my thermometer to measure the ambient temperature of my fermenting closet is there any issue with this? Like does air pressure vs liquid pressure effect the reading at all? The room the closet is In is set to 68f but the reading on the...

I seem to read frequently people saying that you aren't saving money by homebrewing, but that hasn't been my experience. In fact thats the EXACT reason I got into homebrewing. I know that alcohol in general is cheaper in the US than it is up here in Canada but I'm just curious what and average...

Hey, been brewing for a year and a half now and just curious if there's any Winnipeg brewers out there? Looking to create a local network. What do you prefer to brew/ how do you brew? Let's swap stories over some homebrew!

I'm working on a northern English Brown recipe and I'm just curious for input. 7.05 Lbs light lme 8.8 oz victory 8.8 oz biscuit 5.3 oz caramel 20L 5.3 oz caramel 80L 5.3 oz pale chocolate 1.2 oz ek goldings at 60 min 0.5 oz ek goldings at 5 min Sorry I'm Canadian and converted...

So I'm sure this is nothing but I thought I'd anyways. I brewed a cream ale just over a week ago with an og of 1.060. I'm fermenting with us-05 .Took a reading last night to see where it's at and it's at 1.015. It looks like it's still clearly fermenting, and still have bubbles in my blow off...

I finally bought a wort chiller because I felt I was pitching my yeasts too high (75-85). Brewed big cream ale today and accidentally chilled my wort down to 58. I pitched my us-05 anyway but now I'm a little worried. SG was 1.060, so I'm worried that and the low pitching temperature will cause...

I'm brewing my first cream ale and everything I've read suggests I should use 6 row in my mash, however my lhbs was out of 6 row. I bought 2.2 lbs of domestic 2 row and 2.2 lbs of flaked maize but now I'm questioning the ratio. Should I scale back the maize? If so by how much and how would this...

So about 3 weeks ago I brewed my first attempt at a California Common. I know that secondary fermentation isn't suggested but I needed my primary for another brew so I transfered it at 10 days. Whenever I do a transfer I always like to have a little taste just because I can't help myself. When I...

I know there are a lot of posts about starters already, but I'm not surethey answered my question. I made a starter with a year old wyeast California lager 2112 on Monday night thinking I'd brew Wednesday. By Wednesday morning I had no activity at all so I figured it was dead so I went to my...

Hey, So I was watching star trek today when they pulled out a bottle of romulan ale and I thought it would be fun to make a mock romulan ale, just need to dye a pale ale blue. Is this even possible? Or would it just turn green?