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I had a reverse osmosis system put in at our place. Where do I start to understand and start building up my water profile now? Water coming from my RO reservoir is like starting from scratch correct? Thanks!

I have six gallon carbon that I have used for many brews the past year. I noticed this strange mark on the side of it last night before I started another brew. It is kinda gray to black and a slender slash about one to two inches. It does not appear to leak or anything. But I ended up putting my...

Does anyone use a kitchen colander to help them with partial mashing. I have been doing partial mashing for a couple of brews now and have had success, but I am just trying to improve my techniques. I will usually mash in my brewpot for about forty five minutes and then use the tea bag...

On some of the last brews I have done when I open the bottles they seem very over-carbonated. I am not sure why they are doing this. They do not explode or anything and the beer tastes fine it is just annoying if anything. Foam will come up out of the bottle though, so pouring the beer takes a...

So I have been doing all partial mashes this summer. All i would do was use 2-row as my base malt and most of the beers made were light beers anyways. So the recipes would call for light malt extract and I would just use more grain than just all extract. How would I go about using a porter...

So I have a question about a set up for wort chillers. I have one wort chiller right now and it does work quite well. I was talking to a local brewer briefly and he was mentioning how many brewers will use two wort chillers one in an ice bath and the other in the wort. I am just curious how you...

I made an IPA a couple months ago that came out pretty good. But I really like a good hop flavor to these beers and thought it could be a little stronger and have more of a hop flavor. So how would I go about adding more hop flavor to a beer. Does it depend on the type of hops that I use...

I have a question about converting from an extract recipe to a partial mashing recipe. How do I know how much grain to use in a partial mash compared to the amount of dry extract. I was also wondering how much grain I can use compared to dry malt extract. Should I go half and half or try to...

I am in the process of fermenting a Porter right now. I have been reading up on how you can carbonate with brown sugar and was thinking of trying to do that with this porter batch. Would this be a good idea? Also if I could do this how much brown sugar would you recommend using would it be three...

Just wondering how you know when primary is officially done so I can do a dry hop. Right now I still have a lot of foam and bubbles and the airlock is bubbling every 15 seconds still. I know that it is still fermenting, but was wondering when I can consider it done with the primary fermentation...

So I have been using dry yeast for my first three batches. I prepared the yeast for this last batch and it seemed to go okay. I just want to know the best way to prepare dry yeast? What temperature and how much water should I use. Then when I add they yeast do I need to refrigerate or keep it...

So I am going to write down a recipe I am trying to follow. Place crushed crystal malt in water and steep at 155 degrees for 30 minutes. Removed spent grains and add extracts, 1 and a half ounces cascade hops and gypsum. Boil for 1 hour, adding the irish moss for the last 10 minutes. Turn...

So I have already asked about this and continue to ask people on this topic. I am going to brew within the next couple days a new recipe that I am using that I based off of a recipe within a book I am reading. It is an IPA and is supposed to be a very bitter. The book says to put in a primary...

So I want to do a full boil for my next beer, but my one concern is if my pot is quite big enough. I have a 32 quart pot and when I fill it with six gallons it has about three inches of empty space in the pot. I do not know if that is cutting it too close to do a full six gallon boil and if I...

So I am trying my first full boil batch in a couple of days. I am trying to base my recipe off of a similar recipe I have been reading in a book. This book says to start off with six gallons of water because throughout the whole process of steeping and boiling the wort it will evaporate down to...

So my first batch that I brewed was a Robust Porter. I tried it after a week and still had a pretty green taste I felt like. After two to two and half weeks it had a decent flavor, it was not anything special but drinkable you could say. My roommates and I drank quite a few of them but tried...

So I have already worked through various kits and I am now moving onto more intermediate extract brewing. My next batch is going to be an IPA and I want to add hops into the secondary fermenter. What is the process exactly for doing this? Do I just put up them in the fermenter and then take them...

So I also have a question about what water to use in the beer brewing process. I had a local beer brewing store tell me to use distilled water when adding the finishing water to my wort. While looking around and doing more reading I have also heard comments saying that distilled water is not a...

So I have a question about the process of boiling hops. I did my first batch a couple weeks ago and it is fermenting right now. It was my first batch ever so I just used a beer brewing extract kit. In the kit it told me to brew the bittering hops for 40 minutes and then brew the flavoring hops...