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What's the best/safest way to handle likely bottle bombs?
I'm using 16oz amber e-z cap bottles (swing tops). I've read that they'll self-vent before exploding, but I've heard other accounts of them actually exploding.
I'm storing them like this and it's ...
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Effect of priming with honey
How prominent might I expect the flavors of honey to be, if used as a priming element for beer?
I am thinking about it in terms of an all-grain pale ale variation, perhaps with honey or biscuit malt ...
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Expected Hydrometer Reading for White House Honey Ale?
A bit of background:
This is my second beer batch. My first beer batch turned out well as an Irish Stout, using the Midwest Brewing kit and recipie
I just started a White House Honey Ale I'm ...
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Yeast nutrient schedule for meads?
Somewhere I remember a mention that a "more-modern" technique in brewing meads involves a regular schedule of adding yeast nutrients while in the primary. I was never able to find the reference again ...
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What causes fermentation to slow down under normal conditions?
I've got a honey wheat ale in the fermentor, 8 days on it. Wyeast 1010, 1.5L starter. OG 1.054. Temp controlled chest freezer at 65F.
Fermentation appeared to start well, the blowoff hose was ...
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Honey Post-Fermentation
Mosher has a recipe for a honey ginger IPA in Radical Brewing, where you add 2 lbs of honey and candied ginger to a secondary. Wouldn't this cause bottle bombs or be cloyingly sweet?
I have an ...
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Honey/Ginger Brew With Champagne Yeast
I got it in my head last weekend that I needed to homebrew again (it's been more than 10 years!), and so I boiled 4lbs of honey, 2lbs of ginger, 1lb of dark brown sugar and 1.5lbs of raisins (since ...
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Is it necessary to heat honey when using it in cider?
I was going to buy some pasteurized, natural, no preservatives added cider and throw some honey in it to bump up the gravity. I plan on pitching some pretty voracious yeast, so figure any bacteria in ...
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Brewed with honey and the yeast is not working?
I did my first beer using honey last night and the beer is not bubbling this morning as it usually does. Is this normal? Should I re-pitch the yeast or not?
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Brewing a braggot.
How much honey do you need to put into a beer recipe before you can really call it a braggot? I am sure the taste is largely subjective.
I want to brew a beer with 1/3 Honey, 1/3 2-row, 1/3 wheat. I ...
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Concerns/Considerations for making mead with raw honey?
I may be able to source enough raw honey to make a batch of mead from it. Are there any special concerns that I need to be aware of? If I don't boil it, should I use camden tablets to control any wild ...
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Using different types of honey
I was curious how different types of honey affect brewing. Some aspects I'm interested in are:
The floral-blend of honey -- blended vs unblended (e.g. 100% clover honey)
processing -- raw (honey + ...
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I want to brew this American IPA kit with some ginger — terrible idea or give it a go?
Love the taste of ginger, came across Papazian's Dark Gingered Ale recipe and wanted to try it out but I've already got ten gallons of dark beer in the house and I just bought this American IPA kit... ...
