Recent content by RustySteve

For my next brew I would like to try adding some oak chips. Can anyone let me know what would be the best approach? I've been looking around and getting mixed information. Ho much oaks should I use for a 5 gallon batch? Do i need to boil the oaks to sanitized them? How long should I...

Hey! I Just tasted my first batch and it turned out great, but I find that there is a lot of sediment in the bottom on my bottles. My last batch what I did is cold crash for a few days and added gelatin. My second batch is currently fermenting and I was wondering if there is a way to...

I would like to harvest yeast for the first time and I'm not sure what is the best way to do this... Should I harvest the yeast from the primary after I transferred to secondary or wait until I bottle ans harvest the yeast from the secondary? Should I even transfer to a secondary...

ok, so if I understand correctly I should use the temperature where the beer was fermented at since this would have been the highest temperature for the longest period of time?

Hi Everyone! I'm new here and have a questions about priming sugar. I'm bottling my first batch of beer tonight and I have a question. Currently, my beer is cold crashing. When looking at this priming calculator: https://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator, I see that the...