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Anonymous12/06/25, 17:56No.2962625/hbg/
Homebrew general.
Post you brews, recipes, ideas and problems
old 'un >>2921463
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Anon12/06/25, 18:01No.2962627
Its been 2 weeks since bottling, and I don't think I can wait another two like I planned.
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Anon12/06/25, 19:30No.2962663
I'm going to keg my beer for the first time this month, is there any benefit to keg conditioning with priming sugar vs just force carbing it? How long do you usually force carb a keg?
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Anon12/07/25, 05:33No.2962834
I make moonshine, corn liquor in my house. I have a 5 gallon still. When everything goes well I produce about 1 liter of 110 Pf in a week. Things rarely go that well. I don’t really drink anymore, I give it away to friends and family and have a swig with them when they come by to refill their jug. I use corn, sugar yeast and water. I’ve been thinking about trying whisky but haven’t worked up the gumption yet to try a batch or two.
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Anon12/07/25, 15:53No.2962927
I ended up going with option 2, jack on top. It seemed like that was overwhelmingly the most common based off pictures on the internet. I found a few instances of option 3 (jack on bottom) and none of option 1 (jack to the side). It worked great, I got a gallon and a half from maybe 3 gallons of honeycrisp. I put the apples in whole but they had frozen on the tree so they were pretty soft.I used the stainless steel steamer pot not a plastic bucket as anon had suggested. I guess buckets must work fine as I saw a lot of that on the internet but I was worried it would crack from the pressure. I used 2x6 instead of 2x4 like I had planned, and I'm glad I did since it was making some kinda scary creaking noises.
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Anon12/10/25, 11:57No.2963711
What place am I least likely to get screwed buying small amounts of co2, does it matter if I get the stuff they power paintball guns with?
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Anon12/10/25, 12:27No.2963712
bump
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Anon12/13/25, 02:37No.2964297
Got a batch of to be apple cider fermenting. Just put it together yesterday and the bubbling is already super active.
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Anon12/13/25, 02:39No.2964298
Forgot the pic
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Anon12/24/25, 20:18No.2966870
Merry Xmas lads. Hope you are all enjoying some homebrew!
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Anon12/25/25, 06:30No.2966963
I've never brewed anything myself, but I've always wondered how you can figure out the ABV of a home brew.
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Anon12/27/25, 03:11No.2967270
I do occasionally brew up some pumpernickel kvass.
Its not particularly alcoholic, the yeast is just for carbonating it.
TL;DR:
A loaf of pumpernickel is toasted to hardness, slice by slice, then this is busted up into small bits.
These bits are boiled in water, about 2 liters per loaf, until the water takes on the dark hue of the bread.
This is then strained to remove the bread, some rasins added, and upon cooling, a bit of bakers yeast is added.
This is sealed in bottles and left to ferment for a few days.
A flavorful drink, being only 1 or 2 % ABV, it is rich and filling.
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Anon12/27/25, 10:34No.2967331
Did Father Christmas bring any homebrewing stuff for /hbg/ anons?
>me
No.
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Anon01/01/26, 17:56No.2968436
Keep meaning to do a strong ale/barley wine for xmas every year, especially as my nan puts Gold Label in her xmas pudding, but I never get round to it and now she's decided she will never do it again. Hoping to do one in the next month or so and give it 6 months in barrel and then another 5 in bottle, not going to make it too strong in case its a wash out.
heres what I was thinking
>OG 1066
>60% PA malt
>15 % Imperial Malt
>7.5% crystal malt
>5 % dextrin malt
>5% flaked maize
>7.5 % invert sugar
120 minute boil
>Challenger 120 min (45 ibus)
>Golding 40 min (30 ibus)
>EKG 15 min (15 ibus)
>Challenger & Golding dry hop
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Anon01/05/26, 23:56No.2969257
I screwed up and ordered a beer kit with a high gravity and now I’m going to have 55 bottles of roughly 7.2% ABV beer which is nearly useless because I’ll get drunk way too fast. I didn’t want to omit any malt extract during the boil because I was afraid it would affect the flavor profile. What do? Should I water it down?
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Anon01/06/26, 03:41No.2969288
How do you remove alcohol from brews? Say I'm just doing basic ass cider in a jug, is the left over from freeze distilling going to taste nice? I just want non alcoholic cider that has tang unlike sparkling apple juice
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Anon01/13/26, 12:31No.2970587
My fermentation jar got contaminated or is leaking air somewhere and I lost about 12 liters of wine, alcohol is still there but it tastes like shit, anything I can do with it except pouring it down the drain?
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Anon01/27/26, 23:56No.2973235
>almost a month into the year and I have made no beer
getting low on stock as well. Was going to wait 3 month for my schwarzbier to lager but think I’ll just bottle it as it’s been over 6 weeks now.