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I've been brewing for over a year and I have yet to cold crash a beer. I figured it was something that I'd do if I had lagering equipment to chill a beer in nice and cold in a contained environment, but I live in the city and the chances of me obtaining and utilizing such equipment is slim to...

So my partner and crime and I have had a few beers that have kicked around in the secondary for a while. Some as long as a month. This doesn't happen all the time. We've also noticed that some beers that we've made haven't carbonated too well. We don't take proper notes to know if there's...

My friend and I have noticed some bottles seriously popping with some gas explosions when we open them (caps are NOT flying off on their own, thankfully), and I was thinking it might due to under-filling the bottle. So my question is: How much of the neck of the bottle do you leave empty...

So I'm heading off to Normandy and Brittany next week. The last time I went to France I was drinking primarily Leffe because it was widely available, but these days I'm sometimes finding it too sweet for my tastes. I'm also a huge fan of Chimay, which I find to be awesome no matter what my...

So we made two beers last Wednesday. One was a Belgian Style Ale, the other: an Oktoberfest. It's our first time using carboys and we didn't have a blow off tube -- a mistake we won't let happen again. As the title suggested, things got a bit explosives for the first three to four days...

Hello all, first REAL post here, though I've been poking around for weeks. :) My friend and I were brewing our first beer last week - an IPA from a kit. The instructions had us pour our 2 gallons of hot Wort into about 3 gallons of cold water, and let cool to 80 degrees before pitching our...