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I am fine tuning an All Brett Trois IPS recipe. I want to preserve the fruitiness of the brett Trois but I want to add some body. Was thinking of abt 8% of something to add body. The rest of the grist is 70% pils, 15% wheat malt, 3.5% Biscuit and 3.5% Acidulated. I was thinking of using...

So here's the problem: This barrel leaked so bad, I couldn't fill it up enough to swell the staves. Was about to give up on it when a friend had a brilliant idea. We wrapped the barrel in several layers of shrink wrap, the same stuff used to wrap pallets on a loading dock. We then put...

Help Two weeks ago I started an all brett C rye saison: 67% Pilsner 25% Rye malt 8% sugar My efficiency was thru the roof and I got a higher OG than expected. OG 1.062 I made a 1.5L starter of Whitelab Brett C Stirplate, 2 weeks, room temp Pitched it, got blow off within 2...

What is the best temp to age a Flanders Red?

I'm looking to do an AG, 5 gal batch of barley wine. Im doing a modified version of Jamil's English Barley Wine recipe. OG at 60% efficiency will be 1.104 with 23lbs of grain. According to BeerSmith, I need 9.6 gallons of water to get 6.7 gal pre boil volume. I have a 10gal igloo...

Help I brewed a smoked wheat beer the other day and my efficiency sucked. It was an all german wheat malt grain bill. About a week before I brewed, I cold smoked the wheat malt with oak. I did a single infusion mash at 150 degrees in my system that I usually get 70% efficiency. This time...

I wanted to cold smoke some malt with oak for a Grodziskie I'm making. After looking around the inter web, I decided to make my own venturi cold smoke generator. This is not a new idea, but I don't think anyone has posted a DIY here on how to do it. The venturi smoke generator uses a metal...

I was thinking of using Sparkolloid to clarify a Grodziskie, a smoked wheat beer that traditionally is clear. Also it is traditionally bottle conditioned. I was wondering if anyone has had experience using Sparkolloid in clarifying beer and if it will affect the ability to bottle condition.

Ok. So I go to my LHBS (which shall remain nameless) and I put in my grain order for a Godziskie I planned to make today. The grain bill was 1/2 wheat malt and 1/2 smoked malt. Uncrushed, mixed together. Sealed in plastic. So I get home and the grains look a little light, but hey, this is the...

Has anyone used the Wyermann Oak Smoked Wheat Malt for a Grodziskie? I have seen posts where others have smoked their own wheat malt, but if the Wyermann is good, I'd like to use it for consistency. If you are using it, are you using it for 100% of your grist? Wyermann suggests 80%. Is...

Ok. Ive been lurking and looking at everyones brew stand bling for too long. I've gone over every permutation and combination of brewing system there is: 1 vs 2 vs 3 vessel, 1 vs 2 vs 3 tier, BIAB, HERMS, RIMS, driving myself crazy trying to design the AG system best suited to my needs. This...

Northern tool has a 1/8 hp submersible pump on sale for $35 and a coupon to bring it down to $30. Has anyone used a 1/8 hp submersible pump for a DIY keg/carboy cleaner? Does it have enough power. Others I've seen use 1/4 or 1/6 hp pumps. Thoughts?

I ordered some equipment from MMC this morning. Some stuff to make a dimpler for my keggle and some quick disconnects. I live in Atlanta and although they have a warehouse in Atlanta I wouldn't be able to get to the will call for a couple of days so I had the items shipped. Well I get home...

Ok. So here's the problem: I bought a 15gal blue plastic drum from the LHBS. It originally held LME. I wanted to use it to ferment 10gal batches. When I put it into the fermentation fridge, there was not enough head room to put a bubbler on one of the screw-in caps. There wasn't even enough...

I bought a 15 gal closed top plastic barrel from the LHBS to use as a fermenter. It used to hold LME. Cleaned up great. My only concern is how to transfer the beer out of the fermenter after its ready. My auto siphon is not long enough, but I guess I could make a racking cane out of...

I was wondering if anyone out there uses an immersible aquarium heater in their conical or plastic barrel fermenter to keep their wort warm in the winter? Its getting cold in the garage and Im wanting to heat a 15 gallon fermenter to ferm temps. The heater is glass, so I'm sure I can sanitize...

I trying to put together a single vessel no-sparge BIAB system. I have a question about vessel size. I'm thinking of starting with direct fire, but I'll prob eventually convert the system to e-BIAB to brew indoors. I usually do 5gal batches, but I want to be able to brew 10gal batches...

I'm thinking of building a new single tier system and am leaning towards a 2 vessel system. One MLT, one HLT/BK. False bottom on MLT, continuous recirc. Herms or Rims: not decided yet. The one thing that I'm intrigued about with this 2 vessel systems is being able to mash with full pre-boil...

I was looking thru my brew supplies and found a pack of dried chipotle peppers. Got to thinking Hey, if you can put a lime in a beer, why not a piece of pepper and turn your "ordinary" IPA into a chili beer???? Cut off a piece of dried chipotle and poured a pint of Edwort's Bee Cave...

Makgeolli 1kg rice 250 g nuruk 2L water 1 pack Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast 1.Wash. soak and steam rice 2.Cool rice to room temperature 3.Mix nuruk with just enough warm water to dissolve and break up clumps Add nuruk to rice and mix thoroughly. Make sure rice is cool, do not add nuruk...