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Pennies in the Boil
I've heard that adding cleaned pennies to the wort can help prevent boil-overs. I guess they could provide nucleation points- I dunno.
Any truth to this, or is it just an old wives' tail?
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Hibiscus mead changed color after adding yeast nutrient
I'm making an hibiscus-tea mead. The tea/honey mixture had a really nice red color. But after I added the yeast nutrient, the color turned black. The nutrient I'm using is LD Carlson Yeast Nutrient (Food grade urea and diammonium phosphate).
Since…
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Swing-top bottles leaking carbonation
I purchased a 12 pack of swing-top bottles at a decent price. I only now noticed that over time as I drank through the batch, the bottles were less and less carbonated, ranging from perfect carbonation in the early bottles to virtually no…
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How can I prime bottled beer in accordance with the reinheitsgebot?
I so far brew beer using two different beer brewing kits. One required adding honey, the other sugar, for the bottling.
First of all - isn't this breaking the reinheitsgebot? As a German I feel obliged to it.
Shouldn't the dextrose produced during…
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Keeping a bottle of no-rinse sanitiser
Some sanitisers, like star-san, chemipro oxi and betadine are no-rinse in certain dilutions. Star-san can additionaly be kept diluted in a bottle for months and used whenever one wishes. Can the same be done with the other two?
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Does diastatic power reduce with age? Old grain
Anyone have definitive info if diastatic power is reduced with grain age? If so, any data to estimate current DP?
Brewing with some pretty old 2-row today. It has been stored properly for 1.5 years, temperature never got above 80°F, it never got…
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Lagering in corny kegs?
Can I lager in a spare Corny keg in the back of my kegerator? Can I then serve directly from that keg?
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How paranoid about cleaning & sanitization?
I'm a new home brewer. I only have a few batches under my belt -- one partial extract and two all grain. Like most, I've read multiple books and watched videos on the brewing process. Cleaning and Sanitization are talked about in depth. In fact,…
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Dry hopping without secondary fermentation
I have so far only done bottom-fermented beers without transferring into a second vessel for secondary fermentation. If I wanted to do some dry hopping with this technique, when is the best time to put the hops? Towards the end of fermentation into…
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Adding Oak Flavor/character to beer
Short of buying an oak barrel, what forms of oak are available to the homebrewer for getting oak into yuor beer?
Are they available with different levels of toast?
Are some forms easier to sanitize that others?
Do some take more time or less time to…
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What is the difference between Caramel Malts and Crystal Malts?
They are not always one in the same. I believe the process for making them are slightly different as well. I just don't know what that difference is.
How do they differ?
Where are they made?
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What's the line between brown ale and porter?
Southern English brown ale, which I like, seems to differ from porter, which I dislike, by only a matter of degree. It just seems to be about the amount of specialty grains. Is there any other difference?
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What effect do different types of yeast have when creating a recipe?
What happens when you use different types of yeast? Does it change the flavor? I'm not talking about mixing different types of yeast in the same recipe.
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What is a whirlpool chiller?
What is a Whirlpool Chiller and how does it work? What are the advantages or disadvantages?
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Why do extract recipes call for a late addition of the bulk of the extract?
My recipe calls for a pound of DME at the beginning of the boil and 6 pounds at 15 minutes to go. What's the point of that?
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