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I've been bottling for some time, and have an ongoing issue. When I bottle my brews seem to meet a peak at about 3-6 weeks. After that my beer seems to over carbonate and get super fizzy/chlorinated flavor. Suggestions (other than moving to kegging which I've done :-P )?

Nothing like a Munich dunkel on your day off :-) ::cheers::

So I work in a couple restaurants, and recently I've been taking the 5 gallon pickle buckets home and cleaning them to use as a secondary. I have washed the buckets and soaked them with a strong concentration of bleach water. The bleach water sat for about a week and took most of the brine smell...

So I bought a ball lock keg set up recently and am having a hell of a time trying to get it to carb. What am I doing wrong?? I cleaned / sanitized my keg, filled w/ beer and put my regulator @ 30 psi an rocked back and forth for a count of about 100 (after purging oxygen). Let sit for about 24...

Sup guys. Going to be getting a keg this week, ball lock vs. pin lock. What's the pros and cons of each and what do you guys recommend? ::Cheers:: ~J

Oh hai! So I did my first yeast starter on my latest brew, which was Friday (an authentic Bavarian hefe) and I was wondering #1 how long will it take to ferment approximately, and #2 is the cake on top and in the bottom yeast I can recycle and use again later? Prost!

Greetings fellow homebrewers! The harvest season is falling upon u quickly and I am planning on doing a pumpkin ale but I have on simple question: to mash or not to mash? I have seen multiple videos on YouTube were people have mashed their roasted pumpkin in with the grain, I have also...

hey everyone! so my friend and I have been brewing for almost about a year now, and this is our 5th batch we just did, 2nd all grain batch. We did an IPA and I THOUGHT it was going to turn out well. We brewed saturday afternoon and put it in the primary saturday night. sunday night it was...

hey all! so i've done some brewing with my buddy, but he has done most of the work and research for everything i was just kind of like the muscled help. We have done 3 extract recipes, 2 of which were very good and 1 was good but over carbonated. we also have done 1 all grain, that tasted...