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Hello, I seem to be having issues getting consistent final volumes of beer. I am guessing it's just disapearing during my boiling of the wort, but it seems to be so random. For example I just did a peach heff with 7 gallons of water between mash and sparge. After a 60 minute boil I would...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cargo/brewbot-the-smart-brewing-appliance Anyone seen this? Looks kind of interesting, though I would never buy one.

So you've heard of beer can turkey, where you roast your turkey with an open beer inside... but have you heard of turkey beer!?!?! I am trying to come up with a recipe for one... im thinking dark, smokey, beer with a turkey undertone. It's crazy, and sounds a little gross to drink turkey...

Quick question... I've been doing moderate to low alcohol beers, and experimented with yeast starters on a few of them. I've noticed that when I do a yeast starter I almost always get massive fermentation that requires a blow off tube. Without them I still get fermentation, but it takes a...

Pretty basic idea that I haven't seen done so far, although I imagine someone else has at least thought about it. A problem I have run into with my standard coiled wort chiller is that the water running from my faucet is not that cold. So there is a lot of really efficient chilling at first...

Pretty new to brewing, but had a thought... So everyone is always asking about when to take gravity readings for various things, and how it is a better indicator of fermentation, etc. etc. It seems like everyone steals a bit of beer from their carboy though, and then takes a reading...

My understanding of sparging is that you are shooting for maximum sugar in your wort. My question is why not just add sugar of some kind directly to the wort? I assume it would add an odd flavor?

So I am new to home brewing, my first batch is in it's second stage of fermentation now. My question though is about the cleaning and more specifically sanitizing of equipment. It seems to be a pretty standard theme across all brewing sites and videos that you must sanitize everything and...