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A homebrew guy I know says he dumps his wort in a the primary that already ice cubes in it bought from the store. So I dumped 2 8lb bags of ice in the primary and poured my boiling wort over it. Well...the temperature got down to ~52 degrees almost immediately. I know a cold break is good...

Curious if it matters if doing a partial boil, you boil say 2 gallons or 4 gallsons, will the end result be any different? If so, why? At the end the day, you hope to ferment ~5 gallons, so I don't get how boiled amount would matter at all, no matter what you boil, it will be dilluted to 5...

I snagged a case of Grolsch bottles off Craigslist this weekend and was washing them up to be used...and one had a label on it from a homebrew from 1992, so the bottle is either 15 years old or a little older. Can these types of bottles be used indefinately? Do they weaken and eventually...

I hit my FG of 1.012 - 1.015 in the primary fermenter (1.014), and let it sit in a clearing tank for 16 days and bottled on saturday. My gravity again was exactly 1.014. I would have thought there would be some change to it, but there wasn't any. Is this normal?

I opened my first ever brew tonight as I was racking my second batch (Brewer's Best Oktoberfest) to the secondary. I made the Brewer's Best Red Ale kit. My steps were primary for one week, secondary for two weeks, and now it's a week in the bottles and I cracked my first one to taste...

I have brewed two Brewer's best kits so far, none finished yet. They come with a pouch of dry yeast. Last night I was surfing some homebrew stores looking for some ingredients and decided to grab some liquid yeast to try something different along with the ingredients I got to make my first...

Trying to determine if having trub, or the amount of trub in your primary makes a difference, and if it does, what that difference is. My first batch was a Red Ale, I poured the entire contents into the primary, trub and all. I siphoned most of it out during movement to secondary, but there...

My Brewer's best Red Ale kit was just bottled, and I think everything went very well. Smells very much like good beer, so I think I'm in good shape. I racked from secondary to bottling bucket with spigot, put it over the dishwasher and used the dishwasher to dry and bottle after sanitizing...

So I am ready to bottle my 1st batch after 7 days in primary and 2 weeks in secondary. I noticed that the primary fermenter bucket still smells very strongly of the last brew. Will this have any effect on my next batch? I am worried becuase if I take a gatorade bottle and empty it and fill...

Read about some people who now claim they are all-grain brewers, and am wondering what benefit you get out of that? Is the beer better? If it is, how so? Also, is it possible to make really good beer from extract kits? My first extract kit is in the secondary right now, and so far so good...

LD Carlson Red Ale kit made it's way into the secondary 5 gallon carboy after 7 days in the primary. I got an autosiphon today before doing it and it was easy as hell. I did get some trub flowing into the secondary though, more than I thought. I don't think that will be a problem however...

I am brewing a red ale. It's been in the primary since sunday morning. Directions said 3-6 days fermentation. I cracked it open today to get a gravity reading, and it looks like swamp water. It smells kind of like what beer should smell like, sort of. There's a bunch of crap floating on...

I made a bonehead mistake I believe. I poured my 3 gallons of wort into my primary that had 2.25 gallons of cold boiled water. The bottom of my wort boiler was clean as a whistle, so I think all the trub went into the primary, I completely forgot about even attempting to avoid getting the trub...

Well I chilled my wort to 70 degrees today and put the airlock and lid on and put it in the closet of our guest bedroom around 3:30pm. The directions for this Red Ale specify fermentation temperature of 68 - 72 degrees. Being my first batch, I checked on it this evening around 9:30pm...

Hello there, new homebrewer here. Got an LD Carlson Brewer's Best kit for xmas with one kit of Red Ale. It's the kit without a carboy, but I bought one for secondary anyway. Just put that Red Ale into the the primary fermenter about an hour ago, and so far everything looks good. I...