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I have one of those red plastic "butterfly style" cappers, and I noticed when capping my last batch that the caps didn't seem to be on very well. It didn't take much force to pry one off. Do these cappers wear out and need to be replaced? Does it sound like mine is malfunctioning?

So say I'm making a Belgian Pale Ale, and I put the following fermentables into it: 6.6 lbs Briess Pilsen LME 2.6 lbs Muntons Light LME & 1 lbs Candi Sugar which Beer Calculus says should give me an O.G. of 1.077. Then I look at that, and I begin to wonder if maybe I didn't mean to...

After fermenting an apple cider a couple weeks ago my primary bucket smells distinctly of apples. It's not really a bad smell, but you can tell what I've been using the bucket for. Is this just bad cleaning? Will this give some apply flavor to my next batch? The bucket's been around for...

I just picked up some hops on sale from my local homebrew shop, and I'm looking for some good extract recipes to make. I've got: 2oz Mt. Hood 4.8% 2oz Styrian Goldings 3.6% 2oz Millenium 15.9% 1oz Nugget 14.6% I can always pickup more hops if needed, but I'd like some suggestions for...

I'm about to attempt my first dry hopping, and some of the reading I've done is conflicting about the length of time recommended for this. The safe estimate seems to be 1-2 weeks, but say I'm going out of town and can't bottle for 3 weeks from now. Should I rack into secondary and dry hop...

So I've been distracted with some Mardi Gras celebrations lately, and when I bottled my last batch I forgot to add the priming sugar. I realized this only everything was capped. Not knowing what else to do, I opened everything up, carefully tried to pour it back into my bottling bucket, added...