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I recently bought a few new 15.9 gallon fermenters with spigots built into them. The strainer I'm currently using is way to big to use on these fermenters and will most likely result in losing a lot of beer on my floor. I'm planning on just leaving the hops in the wert while fermenting but does...

I live in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa called Urbandale. A few years ago I moved here from my tiny home town called Knoxville, Iowa (about 8,000 people.) Today I was talking to one of my friends who still lives in the area who works at a tiny coffee shop located on the towns square. About 10am...

I brewed a Honey Wheat extract kit from Austin Home Brew on Friday night. When I received the kit in the mail, I found the cold pack not cold at all and the yeast arrived at room temp. I've never had a problem with yeast before so I took the yeast out of the fridge 5 hours before I brewed and...

Today I decided to do my first all grain beer. I will be doing a recipe I found on this site made by mysticmead (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f65/raging-red-irish-red-ale-239188/index4.html) What I'm trying to figure out is how much water and at what temperature do I need to use to mash? Is...

I'm still new to home brewing since I've done only 4 beers to date. I've done extract and partial mash brewing only since I live in an apartment and don't have the space or place to do an all grain. So far I've stuck to simple beers, such as brewing beer that has all of the ingredients packaged...

I have a few brews under my belt now, but never bottled any since I've have a kegerator and just went straight to keging. I've noticed on a few recipes, mainly stouts, that it recommends quite some time in a secondary fermenter. What is the reason for this? I understand that it's for...

I'm on my 3rd 5 gallon batch of beer and I keep having the same problem - lower gravity than I anticipated. My first beer was an Belgian Witbier, which the original gravity was very low and ended with a finial gravity that only gave me 3.1% ABV. I ended up having the same problem with a Oatmeal...