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Last week while bottling I knocked over my hydrometer sample jar and was forced to retake a sample but this time it was after I had already primed my bottling bucket with 3/4 cup of corn sugar. Does anybody know how much priming sugar effects the specific gravity before its fermented out? I'm...

Anybody try pitching a new batch of Apfelwein on the yeast cake from their last batch? Good idea or bad idea?

Just curious, how long does the avg Apfelwein ferment for. I'm up to 4 weeks and 3 days and still getting a few small bubbles coming up.

Just curious if anybody else cleans their equipment with a cleanser after using and then before the next batch only sanitizes? Thats what I've been doing lately; cleaning with Straight-A after every use then storing it in a rubbermaid container until its a new brew day and only sanitizing with...

I'm sure its possible, but has anybody actually had a started get infected and then without knowing it transfer the infection to their wort? I'm getting ready to make a stir plate and have been reading that when using a stir plate to use aluminum foil to cover the flask instead of an...

After finally purchasing Beersmith I put in a recipie for an IPA that I'm planning on making in a week or so and according to the estimated IBU's I'm way under the style IBU's. I got the recipe out of "Beer Captured" and it sounds about right. I put in another IPA recipe out of "Beer Captured"...

So after reading a few articles about malt extracts I had a question about which is better, liquid or dried malt extract. The articles were mentioning that over time LME's flavors can change as proteins breakdown and made it sound like DME does not suffer from these aging changes. However in...

Has anybody had any experience using this chart Carbonation Priming Chart - Brew Your Own (BYO), the How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine to determine how much priming sugar to use? I just recently bottled a Hefe (tastes amazing so far and can't wait to try it out of the bottle) and using the...