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Hey All, Looking for a good and simple IPA recipe.. I'll be brewing by myself sometime this week so I'd like something that won't take too much manpower and yields great results.. I've been looking online and there are literally a bazillion IPA recipes out there so I figured i'd ask here...

Ever lose a batch to infection after bottling and then wash/sanitize the same bottles for a new brew? Am I playing with fire if I try to reuse previously tainted bottles?

Hey everyone, I was wondering about a certain recipe a cousin of mine wants to brew up this weekend... I'm having trouble finding a store that sells puree'd apricots aside from the baby food kind (which Ive read is NOT a good idea to use) so I was wondering if I could simply buy my own...

Morning everyone, Made a nice batch of some Irish Red Ale yesterday evening and due to circumstances beyond my control I didn't have the time to properly cold crash or allow the batch to drop too far in temperature before I had to pitch the yeast. I think I must've pitched at about 26...

This may come off as a little amateur but the recipe I'm about to make calls for 2.3 kg of extract but my HBSS provided me with 3 tubs of 1 kg each... After dropping in the first two tubs, what would be the best/accurate way to calculate the remaining 0.3 kg from my last 1 kg tub? I don't have...

So it seems like a fair number of us are cranking some tunes while gettin our brew on, so the debate begins: what's the best music to brew to? Personally I go from anything rock to metal to the occasional dubstep/electronic stuff...I think the Foo Fighters were the soundtrack to my last brew...

I just got back from the homebrew supplies store and picked up some syrup extract, some hops and yeast for my upcoming Irish Red Ale brew... I was advised that if I wanted to brew tomorrow I should refrigerate the extract, hope and yeast before use so I stuck them in the fridge when I got...

Sanitization! I decided around 8:00 pm last night to bottle my latest brew - it was close to 1:00 am when I was done and cleaned up... We all know the majority of this time was spent sanitizing the bottles! Absolutely hate it! (but love it). What's your homebrew pet peeve?

Hey everyone, I was planning on bottling my Wheat Beer this week and was wondering how much DME (or Dextrose) I'd need to prime... I've been using this calculator: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html I chose the Wheat Beer Bavarian Weizen... 5 Gallons fermenting at 21 Degrees...

Just realized I have a dozen of these bottles laying around and need to bottle this week so my question to you is, hoe garden bottles: yay or nay?

This is my first brew and I've experienced a different level of paranoia at each stage of the process so I look to the forums to provide some reassurance/guidance... After racking into my secondary does it seem like I have too much airspace in my carboy? I'm scared of oxidation...

I had soaked my secondary in some water and Aseptox 2 days ago and was wondering if I can still use the solution today to sanitize my hydrometer for a reading later on tonight... Is it possible that after sitting in a carboy for 2-3 days a sanitizing solution would lose its sanitizing power or...

I'll apologize in advance for my paranoia but this is my first 5 Gallon batch and have been taking every step in the process very seriously to ensure my Wheat Beer is a success... The OG reading before I pitched was on Saturday night (06/02) was 1.054. Today's reading (06/06) was 1.015...

Montreal's Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow and I know I'll be overwhelmed by the choices that I know I'll miss out on some good brews... Here's a list of Breweries that will be represented, any names that stick out as "must haves"...

About to brew my first Cooper's Wheat Beer... According to their website, ingredients include: 1.7kg can Thomas Coopers Wheat Beer 500g Light Dry Malt 300g Dextrose I visited a local homebrew store and mentioned I wanted to replace the dextrose with some DME and I was handed 1.25 kg of CBW...

Just picked up my first Cooper's Kit (Wheat Beer) after reading and hearing some good reviews. I was planning on brewing my very first 5 Gallon full batch this weekend and was wondering if anyone had some simple additions/modifications to the kit that would yield some nice results... I'm...