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The Homebrewer’s Problem Solver
by Erik Lars Myers
Homebrewer's Problem Solver
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: THE BASICS
1. I don’t know how to start home brewing
2. I’m not sure if I have the right equipment
3. I’m not sure which ingredients to buy
4. I don’t know how to build my own recipe
5. I can’t tell if my fermentation is complete
6. I don’t know how much alcohol is in my beer
7. I need to take a sample out of my fermenter
8. I’m unsure how to clean my equipment
9. Should I clean or sanitize my equipment?
CHAPTER TWO: INGREDIENTS
10. My hops smell like cheese or feet
11. My malt extract has solidified
12. My malt extract is moldy
13. My grain has bugs in it
14. My grain is moldy
15. My grain won’t crush well
16. I crushed my grain too finely
17. My water smells funny or is discolored
18. My water is chlorinated
19. The expiration date on my yeast has passed
20. I don’t know how to make a yeast starter
21. I’m not sure how much yeast to put into my wort
CHAPTER THREE: MASHING AND STEEPING
22. The alpha-acid content in my hops is different
23. I forgot to add my extract/all of my extract
24. I’m not sure how to use grain in my extract brew
25. How much water do I use in my all-grain mash?
26. I can’t get a filter bed to form in the mash
27. The grain bed collapsed during lauter
28. My infusion mash won’t reach target temperature
29. My mash won’t hold temperature
30. My mash bed keeps running dry
31. I don’t know when to stop lauter
32. My mash temperature was way too cold
33. My mash temperature was way too hot
34. What do I do with my spent grain?
CHAPTER FOUR: BOILING
35. My boil has long stringy debris in it
36. My boil ended prematurely
37. I don’t have enough wort
38. I have way too much wort
39. After boil my beer won’t cool down fast enough
40. I keep having boil-overs
41. I forgot to add my hops
42. I added more hops than I was supposed to
CHAPTER FIVE: FERMENTATION
43. Fermentation hasn’t started
44. Fermentation ended earlier than expected
45. Fermentation ended quickly
46. Fermentation seems to last forever
47. My fermentation smells funny
48. My fermentation has a slimy white film on top
49. I’m not sure how to do lager fermentation
50. The liquid from the airlock got into my wort
51. Fermentation overflowed my fermenter
52. I’m not sure when/how to dry hop
53. I didn’t transfer beer out of primary fermentation
54. I added fruit and it looks/smells really gross
55. I need to measure alcohol after adding fruit
CHAPTER SIX: PACKAGING
56. My beer gradually becomes sour in bottles
57. My bottled beer is all flat
58. My bottle has a chip in the rim
59. My bottle caps are rusty
60. There is a lot of yeast in the bottom of my bottles
61. My bottles have ropy filaments in them
62. There’s a ring around the beer line in my bottle
63. My bottled beer has too much carbonation
64. I can’t get my kegged beer to carbonate
65. I need to force-carbonate my keg really quickly
66. My Cornelius keg won’t seal properly/is leaking
67. My kegged beer becomes over-carbonated/flat
68. My kegged beer tastes like rancid butter
69. I don’t know how to bottle beer from a keg
CHAPTER SEVEN: EQUIPMENT
70. I don’t have a big enough pot to brew with
71. I can’t get a siphon started
72. My hoses get foggy after sanitizing
73. My mash efficiency is low
74. My boil kettle has brown or white buildup in it
75. The flow through my plate chiller is too slow
76. I don’t know how to sanitize my plate chiller
77. I’m not sure how much liquid is in my kettle
78. I’m not sure if my mash tun is big enough
79. I don’t have a way to oxygenate my wort
80. My CO2 cylinder empties too quickly
81. My airlock blew off of my fermentation vessel
CHAPTER EIGHT: FINISHED BEER
82. My beer smells/tastes like butter/butterscotch
83. My beer smells/tastes like cabbage
84. My beer smells/tastes lightstruck/skunky
85. My beer smells or tastes like sewer or vomit
86. My beer smells/tastes metallic
87. My beer smells/tastes boozy
88. My beer smells/tastes like vinegar
89. My beer smells/tastes like soy sauce
90. My beer smells/tastes like sulfur
91. My beer smells/tastes like wet newspaper/cardboard.
92. My beer tastes burned
93. My hoppy beer is too bitter and lacks flavor
94. My beer is hazy when cold
95. My dark beer tastes ashy.
96. My beer is more/less bitter than I expected
97. My beer is too sweet/tastes like wort
98. My beer doesn’t have good head retention
99. The body of my beer is too thin
100. I’d like impartial feedback about my beer
Glossary
A–Z of beer varieties
Index
Further Resources
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