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The owner of the LHBS shop told me I should not use the removable strainer in my funnel when pouring the chilled wort into the fermenter (i use a 6-gal carboy). He said the junk you filter out will just settle at the bottom of the fermenter anyway, but when you use a strainer you are also...

Hello experts! Can you review my brew day process and tell me if I'm on the right track to preventing a certain off flavor from appearing my next batch? I've brewed three extract w/ specialty grain batches so far. They were all good, but all contained a certain flavor I wasn't fond of. After...

For my third batch, I'm going to try my hand at putting together my own extract recipe. I think this looks pretty straight forward but I just want some kind of approval before I spend the cash. Here's what I'm going for: a porter with a high-end, smooth, full bodied, malty character. It will...

My first batch was an English Brown ale, a Brewer's Best extract kit with steeping grains. It has been in bottles for two weeks, and today I decided to crack one open to see how it is coming along... and it was everything I hoped for and more! :) It was so good that if someone had set a glass...

...or is cold crashing reserved for force carbonation?

I just want to say thank you to all the members of HBT. I've been reading these threads for a couple months now and finally made my first batch yesterday, an English Brown Ale from Brewer's Best. Apart from a few small mistakes (one being my OG reading was too low b/c I didn't mix well after...