Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – July 2024
Monday, July 15th, 2024Most Discussed Topics
Extract to start
by Steve Ruch with 10 posts this month
Which of you started brewing with extract and moved to all-grain and who stayed with extract?
Basement brewery ventilation
by philjohnwilliams with 41 posts this month
I’m getting ready to make the switch from brewing with propane outdoors to electric brewing in my basement. I’ll be setting up in the laundry room where I already store all of my brewing gear and …
Cold Enough For Clean Fermentation?
by the_goat_Birdman with 29 posts this month
Hi all, Making a schwarzbier with S-23 for a local competition. After a 72-hour lag time, fermentation took off after I warmed the wort up a little by leaving it in my warm garage. It was initial…
Brewing a lager recipe with ale yeast
by Mastoras007 with 10 posts this month
Hello everyone.I have ingredients for this recipe [URL]https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/356952/nrden-bru-czech-pilsner-plze-[/URL]But I don’t have yeast ( i have only malt and h…
Hello All, From Orlando Fl
by Brewer #428815 with 9 posts this month
Fairly new to brewing, just stepping up to all grain after about six – 5 Gallon batches of malt extract brewing and stumbled upon Brewers Friend.I’m still learning how to use the site, and hoping …
Question about carbing
by Yontsey with 37 posts this month
So I have a two port CO2 regulator that I use one for a serving that goes to a manifold and then one for carbing when I force carb. I force carbed a keg and then switched it to the other line. I fo…
Dry Hop under pressure
by Vallka with 13 posts this month
Anyone have a good way to dry hop when under pressure?I ferment in All Rounders, but dry hopping is a pain!Anyone have a diy way of doing this, I might try magnetizing a bag to the bottom of the …
Yeast question
by Brewer #404298 with 6 posts this month
Live in Mississippi. 2 hour round trip to local brewery shop. Going to order online. Most sites say that they can’t guarantee yeast stays cold (understandable at 94 degrees every day). Thinking…
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Water Chemistry target profiles
by Brewer #404298 on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 with 2 posts so far
Maybe I am doing this wrong. I added a couple "target profiles" for brown ales I want to hit under My Brewing/My Profile/Water Profiles.In the water chemistry section of a brew session, I assum…
Fake stainless steel?
by Mastoras007 on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 with 3 posts so far
Hello.I left the beer tap inside the star for a few days (3-4).I had opened it in pieces and left it inside until it was time to use it again.when I took it out I saw that some of the parts whic…
What beer did I make?
by Brewer #415673 on Sat, 13 Jul 2024 with 6 posts so far
What beer did I make?I was trying to make a Best Bitter though I’m not sure where I landed, maybe closer to a dark mild?When I was ready for brew day I realized I only had 10L crystal instead…
Sugar for a Saison
by Sandy Feet on Fri, 12 Jul 2024 with 7 posts so far
I’ve done some research, talked to people, and I’m pretty damn sure table sugar isn’t going to make much of a difference over the 0/1 SRM candi syrup. I used a little candi syrup in my last French …
Extract to start
by Steve Ruch on Fri, 12 Jul 2024 with 10 posts so far
Which of you started brewing with extract and moved to all-grain and who stayed with extract?
Hello All, From Orlando Fl
by Brewer #428815 on Fri, 12 Jul 2024 with 9 posts so far
Fairly new to brewing, just stepping up to all grain after about six – 5 Gallon batches of malt extract brewing and stumbled upon Brewers Friend.I’m still learning how to use the site, and hoping …
Question about carbing
by Yontsey on Fri, 12 Jul 2024 with 37 posts so far
So I have a two port CO2 regulator that I use one for a serving that goes to a manifold and then one for carbing when I force carb. I force carbed a keg and then switched it to the other line. I fo…
Dry Malt
by cowboy7307 on Thu, 11 Jul 2024 with 5 posts so far
I am going to do am Extract beer and going to use 2KG of light dry malt, and do a mash with grain,the recipes say to boil some of the DME is this step really required or can i just put DME straigh…
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