Topic: Mr Wizard
Perfect Priming & Kettle Souring: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I can’t seem to find any information that I feel like I can trust on the amount of priming sugar to use if I cold crash my homebrew. I have heard
Hop Shelf Life & Egg Finings: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I have a random assortment of leftover hops in the back of my freezer that is about a year old. I always freeze the unused portions right away so they don’t
Carbonating High-Alcohol Beer, CO2 Protection & Filtering: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I fermented a Russian imperial stout for 10 days, held in the secondary for 20 days, and did a third transfer/conditioning for 30 days. Next, I transferred it into a freshly
Yeast Starters, Nitro Gas & Stainless Care: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I’ve been doing a lot of research on making yeast starters and my question that I can’t seem to find the answer to is whether there is an upper limit to
Hop Utilization, Prepping a Barrel & Yeast Washing: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I use a hop spider to reduce the amount of debris in my chilled wort prior to transferring it into my carboy for fermentation. The hop spider is a 5-gallon (19-L)
Stabilizing, Barrel-Aged Cider & Adjusting pH: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ After brewing for a long time in Seattle, Washington I now find myself in extreme southeast Arizona. Seattle was a kitchen brewery but Here I have a shed dedicated to brewing
Tropical Ingredients, Hitting FG & Rauchbier: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ Have any good recipes for pineapple or coconut ale? or any light beer recipes? I’m new so the easier the better. Kevin Hill Clemson, South Carolina A Recipes are something I
Bottled Cask Ale, Dry Hopping & Low-Alpha Bittering: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I think that the best beer you can have is real cask ale. But if you only have equipment to bottle your beers, is there anything you can do to make
Rehydrating Dry Yeast, Bottle Bombs & Fading Hops: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ Being new to homebrewing, I am reading as many books and magazines as I can, reviewing sites like byo.com and poring over the message boards. The rehydrate/don’t rehydrate dried yeast debate
Fruit Beer, Crisp Finish, Storing Ingredients & Peppers: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I would like to brew a batch of raspberry wheat beer without using concentrated flavoring. The flavor concentrates work well, but i would like to try brewing with real berries. Mike
Pro Am Brewing with Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYFor several years I wanted to participate in the ProAm competition at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), but was not sure how to go about teaming up with an award-winning homebrewer.
Dextrin Malts, High Gravity & Filtering Water: Mr. Wizard
MEMBERS ONLYQ I understand that DextraPils® gives body and head, but why? What is the process in making this malt and how does it break down in a mash? What type of sugars