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I have a birthday fast approaching, and I'm trying to decide what homebrewing goody to ask SWMBO for next. I figure I should turn to the pros for advice: you guys. Right now I've got the basic setup (two buckets, autosiphon, hydrometer, thermometer, etc) along with a homemade wort chiller. I'd...

What's the prevailing wisdom on how many times any one 12 oz bottle can be washed out, sanitized, and re-used before there's a risk of it weakening enough to cause bottle bombs? Is there any such limit?

So I was just wondering earlier - why is conventional wisdom not to make a starter when using dry yeast? What property of dry yeast makes it unnecessary to make a starter (/what property of liquid yeast makes it necessary to use a starter)? I remember reading somewhere once that liquid yeast has...

So I'm brewing a batch of witbier for a friend's shindig on the 19th of November. I brewed it the weekend before last, meaning it's now been in the primary for a week. Brew day went off without a hitch, fermentation is going normally, etc, etc. Basically, my question is this: I've got five weeks...

Hey everyone, So last Monday (June 7th) I brewed my first beer (an American Wheat Beer from Northern Brewer), and nearly everything went wrong. A nasty overboil burned some wort in to my stove I STILL can't get off, and (more dangerously), I finished making the wort and added the (I at the...