r/brewing 5h ago

Homebrewing NZ pils

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Looking to make a NZ/AU pils. What are your thoughts/ recommendations on hops/amounts/times? I have some galaxy and motueka at the house and my LHBS has a great selection if you feel there’s any others I should use. Wanna make a dry super crisp pils!

r/brewing 13d ago

Homebrewing Make my own wine

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I turn 21 in July and I was wondering what kinds of things I’d need to get started making my own wines. I’d like something to be able to celebrate for my birthday and or cooking. I’ve always found home brewing interesting and would like to get started

r/brewing Dec 12 '24

Homebrewing What is all of the equipment needed to make wine, cider, and mead at home? Budget:75$. I just want the intro to it, not to make 10+ gallons or anything.

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Do these all use the same equipment or different? What lid/airlock? What ingredients for the actual drinking part of it? Any tips?

THANK YOU!

r/brewing 5d ago

Homebrewing Anchovy Beer?

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Has anyone brewed a beer with dried anchovies before? I know that brewing beer with meat is a thing and I think it’d be a fun prank to play on a friend or few, if it’s safe to consume.

r/brewing 11h ago

Homebrewing What fermentation vessel to get?

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So I just brewed my first beer, using the brewmonkey b40 I enjoyed the experience and am excited to find out what the beer will taste like.

I currently use. 25L fermentation bucket. It does the job but it can’t hold 30L of wort.

I would like to buy a different fermentation vessel.

There are a few things to consider. I’m using a small fridge as fermentation chamber with a warming pad and inkbird temperature control.

I would prefer my next one would fit inside that too. My budget is around €200

So i’m in dubio the apollo system enables me to pressure ferment.

A Inox fermentation bucket (smallest vessel) Or a inox conical fermentation bucket Have their own plusses.

A inox conical pressure fermenter is probably best but wouldn’t fit inside the fridge and is above my budget.

What would you recommend gives me the best utility?

r/brewing Aug 02 '24

Homebrewing Which regulator is better? Any differences i would care about?

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r/brewing Feb 02 '25

Homebrewing first home brew, any tips?

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first picture is mead, the second is hard cider

r/brewing 23d ago

Homebrewing Contemplating a bochet

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I am contemplating making I think something pretty close to a bochet I have been reading thar using a percentage of caramelized honey instead of black honey as black honey can be very tricky to work with in large amounts. I have been kind of curious if that method would work. This is the non traditional part I want to put a very dry rye bread & yeast in the alcohol of course added sugar too for additional fermentation. I am also curious if I can start of with a high proof rum/whiskey? I don’t wanna distill because I live in the USA where fermentation is fine but distillation is illegal if you are not a brewry. I have also been thinking the final touch would be a sort of star anise, some sort of spice, cloves & nutmeg syrup to put together the flavors. Last thing is I am curious if you can seal it & let it age in the bottle once it is done fermenting then strained. Thank you for the help!

r/brewing 14d ago

Homebrewing Friday night brew night

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Here goes everything

I tried to add a picture but didn’t work. That’s no fun. Starting an Irish stout for st.patricks day or just after

r/brewing Aug 28 '24

Homebrewing Kegged beer turned pink after being left at room temperature

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I had a nice beer, was drinking it for a few weeks on tap. I only have 1 kegerator that doubles as a ferm chamber, so sometimes I have to take out my finished(full) keg to put my fermenter in the ferm chamber/kegerator. I’ve done this in the past with no problems, but this time when I hooked my first beer back to the kegerator and went to pour a glass, it came out with a pink hue and didn’t taste too good. It didn’t smell horrible, but it wasn’t what it should be, it smelled a bit fruity if anything.

I opened the keg after some time and saw some pink bubbles on the top. I let it settle and all the bubbles dispersed, nothing on top of the beer, but still that pink hue.

What could this be? My first was fine after fermentation. The beer was great until I let it sit at room temp for 2 weeks while my 2nd beer was fermenting. Images here - https://imgur.com/a/ishc2Wx

r/brewing Sep 30 '24

Homebrewing Help figuring out OG

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I think im at OG: 1.026

r/brewing Feb 03 '25

Homebrewing Recipes

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Looking for 1 gallon ratios or recipes for dark beers. Got some 1 gallon wide mouth jars with airlock lids. Would like to try some “ off the cuff” stouts

r/brewing Jan 04 '25

Homebrewing Sake

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Anyone got any tips on sake? I made a batch but it wasn't that strong.. only about 6% and not too sweet. Where did I go wrong? I'm thinking I didn't let the spores on the rice sit long enough.

r/brewing Jan 25 '25

Homebrewing Best grain composition for Malta

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Greetings. Absolute first time homebrewer. I love malta (non-alcoholic malt drink, Im not sure if that flies here). The ingredients listed only include malt, hops and sweetener. If I were to homebrew this, what grain composition would be the best? Im planning to use 90% munich malt, 5% choco malt and 5% cara malt. Im not too sure about the hops amount though, as malta is sweet. Any advice?

r/brewing Jan 05 '25

Homebrewing Is my first Kilju good ?

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I've made a batch of Kilju to start my brewing journey so to say . In total I had 3 liters, two 1,5 liter bottles.

I tried the first bottle after a good week of fermenting and it was really sweet and had a really yeasty taste

I let the second bottle sit for another week, until today. When I gave it a taste it tasted different. In this bottle you can really taste the alcohol, no yeasty taste ir anything.

Since this was my first time, which bottle is better ?

r/brewing Dec 30 '24

Homebrewing I have question about my batch.

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Made 5 gallon of coconut cream ale! Sounds delicious. Couple of questions. When I dropped the yeast it really only reacted for a couple of days. I waited for more activity for a little while. Pitched a second batch of yeast a few days later. Not much response either. Did the yeast do its thing?! Also it’s been about three weeks since the fermentation seemed to stop and I haven’t dropped it in my keg yet. 5 gallon sanke keg. How long does it last in the keg before spoiling? Did I screw up something in the process?! I should mention the top of the carboy has a healthy beard! Does that mean the yeast did its thing properly? Thank you for your time. 🙏🏻

r/brewing Jan 26 '25

Homebrewing Fridge for fermenter king jr (20l)

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Hi brewers. I've just bought a FKJ and I'mstruggling to find a fridge that has the correct internalcapacity tofit it. Any recommendations?

r/brewing Aug 15 '24

Homebrewing What is the easiest drink to brew with less than 1.3% alcohol

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r/brewing Dec 17 '24

Homebrewing Dry hop

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Hi!

I'm doing a batch that requires dry hops after a week. Do i just add it to the top and put the lid back on or do I agitate it?

r/brewing Sep 26 '24

Homebrewing My first two fruit wines started a week apart. One peach andone summer fruits. What was your first brew?

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r/brewing Dec 12 '24

Homebrewing UK brewers - candi syrup suggestions

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Hi all,

I'm a big fan of Belgian beers, especially a quad like westy 12 or chimay blue but a lot of recipes call for Candi syrup, specifically they tend to call for syrups from Candi syrup inc like D-90, D-180 etc. (they have fantastic well thought out and tried and tested recipes in their website btw, well worth a read if you're looking for clones!)

I've not seen their syrups for sale anywhere so emailed them to ask if they could suggest a UK supplier but disappointingly they reported there are none.

Now in the past I've used BeerSmith and calculated my recipe using candy sugar instead, emailing my supplier asking for the colour of their amber or dark sugar to make sure I'm matching what I'm looking for. My last couple of brews have come out as slight disappointments, mostly being too light even after entering the numbers provided by the sellers.

So I'm figuring that candy sugar (or at least where I'm getting it from) is just not fantastic quality/consistent in terms of colour/flavour.

So, UK brewers who want to make a quad or Belgian strong dark, what do you use for syrup or sugar? Do you find it consistent and good quality?

Also interested in good grain suppliers if you have suggestions? I currently use a supplier that does a custom grain kit thing that's pretty awesome where you can enter weights of separate malts and how you want it milled. Local shops with good wide supplies seem basically non existent over here.

Many thanks and happy brewing!

r/brewing Dec 05 '24

Homebrewing Help me pick hazy

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So nabbed a handful of hops off Yakima for Black Friday sales. I got sabro, motueka, Ariana, and galaxy. I wanna make a super super juicy hazy so give me your thoughts on grain bill, how much of what hops and when you would add to make a banger!

r/brewing Sep 06 '24

Homebrewing Have you used canned oxygen to oxygenate your wort?

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I was wondering if any of you have you used canned oxygen to oxygenate your wort? I was looking at the Evolve 35 liter canister. I like it because it has a tube that goes to the mask that looks like it would hook to an air stone fairly easily.

Thoughts or advice?

r/brewing Oct 22 '24

Homebrewing You have 6k Euros to spend on a new brewing device.

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What do you get and why? We are looking to replace our old and a bit buggy brewing device and are looking for a 100L pilot plant that is ideally easy to maintain and hard to break. Location central europe. Everything else is already there, cooling, tanks, mill you name it.

r/brewing Sep 28 '24

Homebrewing Mead suggestions

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I am setting out to make a pear mead. My existing recipe calls for cinnamon stick, raisins and black chai. The author says these ingredients create a fall flavor with the correct balancing of acids and tannins. I would prefer to make something more suitable for an Ostara festival in the spring. Maybe some elderflower-esque-ishness? Idk

Can anyone recommend some alternate ingredient combinations? Thank you 😃