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Hello, I just started my first batch of mead a few days ago. It is bubbling but the honey and water are pretty separated so there is a thick layer of honey at the bottom of the carboy. On the top of the water there is a good layer of krausen and it looks like there is something similar down on...

Hello everyone, I brewed my first brew on the 4th and was going to bottle on the 25th. I have only looked at it a few times since then and today I went in to see how it is doing and there is a layer of foam on top still. Should I hold off bottling or is this normal? Shouldn't it be done fermenting?

I did my first brew yesterday :D! I got the true brew k6 kit from my LHBS and a true brew amber ale recipe kit. I read in the kit that it only required a 6 quart pot so I bought an 8 quart thinking I was playing it safe. Lets just say i learned how to take apart the stove in the new apartment...

Hello everyone, I just got my first kit, a true brew k6. The kit instructions say to brew in the carboy for a week or until fermentation stops and then bottle, could i brew in my bottling bucket as a primary then switch to the carboy as a secondary? Would my brew benefit from this? Thanks!

Hello, I understand why bittering hops are added toward the beginning and why aromatic hops are added at the end, but are the two interchangeable? One of my home brew books says that hops like willamette and cascade are aromatic. Then it says hops like chinook and northern brewer are bittering...

When brewing from extract like in this post https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/beginner-extract-brewing-howto-99139/ do you need to add sugar?

Has anyone ever had any experience with the carbonator cap? (shown here http://www.midwestsupplies.com/the-carbonater.html) I was wondering if I could use this to force carbonate my homebrew in a two liter and then siphon it into individual glass bottles or would it lose its carbonation?