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Good homebrewing podcasts?
Brewing Network should be your starting point. Download The Jamil Show, Brew Strong and Brewing With Style and listen to everything from the start. Yes, it is a LOT of podcasts, but you will learn so ...
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Can I mix two yeasts to add different flavours when I make beer?
This can work very nicely from my experience, I often use S-04 and US-05. The S-04 gives esters as you suspect and the US-05 gives a higher attenuation and a thinner body.
The majority of esters are ...
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Do I need the dregs from primary fermentation for carbonation?
No. The settled yeast (trub/dregs) from primary shouldn't be included in bottling. There's plenty of yeast in suspension to bottle condition, unless your cold weather was enough to completely crash ...
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Good homebrewing podcasts?
Basic Brewing Radio
Basic brewing, Interviews Gravity, Malts, Equipment, Quality, Everything
http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=radio
Episodes: 50+
Brew Strong
Water treatment, Interviews, ...
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How to remove sediment?
Grats on your first brew!
Ultimately you need to draw beer from above the trub (sediment).
If your fermentor is designed for fermenting and has a spigot, it should have an adjustable arm you can ...
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Steps to take as a first timer brewery
Get yourself a decent homebrewing book. John Palmer's book "How to Brew" is a great starting place.
Watch some youtube videos on homebrewing. This one has a million views. (You guys are lucky, when ...
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Can I over-filter my beer?
If you are worried about the yeast getting through that bag, you have nothing to worry about. When we talk about sterile filtration, the generally accepted size of the filter is .45u (micron). 1000 ...
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Accidentally used 100% unsanitized gear for brew - should I toss it?
Your brew is fine. If there's a problem it will be obvious when you taste it. Relax.
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Should I boil water before adding it to the cooled wort?
I have no idea about the OP's water but here in Sussex UK I use the water straight out of the tap. I would not boil it - I would just add it to the wort in the FV, pitch the yeast and let it ferment. ...
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What are the essential data one should collect when brewing beer?
I'd collect:
The recipe: grain bill, hops and their times, adjuncts and their times, amount of water. That way you can try to recreate the same beer if it was good. You can tweak any of grain bill, ...
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What are the essential data one should collect when brewing beer?
Here's a couple reading I find important that many over look.
All-grain. Mash pH is very important.
Doing an iodine test during the mash is a good practice to check if conversion is done. Why mash ...
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How to brew moonshine?
Moonshine is the name for illegally made spirits of non-specific ingredients. So I will answer your question as if you asked something like: "How do I make spirits".
Caveat: Currently, as far as I ...
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I forgot to take my first Gravity reading
It isn't too much of a big deal. If you have the nutritional information from the honey you can calculate how much of it was pure sugar (mainly glucose in honey I believe). Then it is a simple case of ...
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What is the good amount of beer to brew as a beginner?
This is a matter of personal preference, of course, but I suggest using a standard 5-gallon recipe (19L) but then cut all the ingredients in half and brew just 2.5 gallons (9.5L). Then if you like it,...
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No bubbling after 3 days and no SG reading at start
Firstly, stop opening it, you looking at it isn't going to make anything good happen and could potentially lead to an infection.
Try to get it somewhere warmer, assuming it's an ale yeast (you didn't ...
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How to make a great stout?
You can't make something taste better if you do not know what it tastes like.
Brew the beer as you have it. Taste it, determine what it needs, then re-brew the beer with new changes.
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Good homebrewing podcasts?
Beer smith is nice, that created of the software with the same name interviews different beer experts.
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Should I boil water before adding it to the cooled wort?
It depends, obviously. In many countries tap water is close to a few microorganisms in a milliliter, which would theoretically guarantee it to be safe. There should be test results available online or ...
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Can I mix two yeasts to add different flavours when I make beer?
You can do it, but there's no way to control which will dominate so it's a crapshoot with hard to predict results. I prefer to go another way... split the batch and ferment each half with a different ...
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Recipe websites catering to beginners?
Since the science and techniques of brewing is exactly the same for beginners as they are for somebody who has been brewing for years, are you asking for recipes for malt extract (known as extract ...
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Step by Step homebrewing from extract - need verification and clarification
IMHO there is too much "all grain brewing tehcnique" being used in an extract brew process.
There is no particular need to steep the grains at 70C. They are providing some flavours and body to the ...
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Messed up West Coast IPA recipe, could dryhopping make it good?
Wait!!! Does the beer taste good?
If so, just leave it, it wont be as bitter as the recipe sure, but good beer is good beer. It's probably OK.
Hop additions are numbered by the amount of boil ...
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Brewing Low ABV Lager
Many websites can provide recipes. Take a look at some other posts like :
Recipe websites catering to beginners?
But since you already have a recipe, you just need to lower the ABV a little, take ...
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Baloon air lock not inflating after second day
You may not have a perfect seal, so the gas is dissipating into the atmosphere. This is not a problem. The airlock serves only as a safety mechanism - it prevents buildup of gas, while also preventing ...
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Is my final gravity too high for bottling?
In general, you can consider you fermentation completed when you get the same gravity reading for 3 days in a row. It is either completed or stuck (I won't go on the details here, but do a search on '...
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Fermented juice with potassium sorbate
Preservatives make it harder to ferment but not impossible.
Sounds like your yeast has been able to ferment so I think you should be fine to carry on as normal. You may have saved it by putting in two ...
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Should i use the syphon or tap?
I would suggest the siphon, since usually they're designed to take (almost) all the liquid while sucking up minimal sediment. You probably have a little cap at the end of your siphon for that purpose....
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Will it be too cold to brew in my garage over the winter?
Cold weather won't negatively impact brewing, other than you may use a bit more propane. All the local brewers I know (in colorful Colorado) who use propane, including myself, brew in garages during ...
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Off Flavors in all of my Homebrewing attempts
Grats on your first brews!
Sounds like yeast stress esters from possibly under pitching or lack of oxygen, maybe even autolysis if it's sitting in a primary for 3 weeks.
Suggestions:
Use a yeast ...
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