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I just a made an Applewein for the first time and had a question. Is it advised to crash cool it on the last week or placed in a secondary to clear up? Thanks Skip:mug:

I have been kegging my beers for a while now and had great results. The beer comes out of the tap full of carbonation and a great head. I recently bought a counterpressure bottle filler and started filling bottles from my keg. The problem is head retention in the bottles. They dont have as much...

I made a yeast starter and unfortunately i used the wrong yeast. I kept it in the flask and placed it in the fridge for another time. Can i do that or is it bad now? How long can it be kept and what are the steps to re-use it? Thanks, Skip:mug:

What is your technique on lager beers? Please no fancy answers just the steps. Explain at time of adding yeast through the end. Diacytel rest, ETC..... Please give details as temp, time and methods. Thanks,

When the wort is transfered from the boiling kettle to the fermenter bucket, do you guys transfer the trub also or filter it out?

This is the brew house set up with temperature controlled fermentation and tapped kegs in the fridge.

Who out there uses a thermowell? I just purchased one and used with a ranco temp control and am not satisfied. I may be doing something wrong. Please let me know? I have a chest freezer(Temp controlled) and put the ranco thermocouple down the thermowell tube and set at 70 degrees with a 1 degree...

I just placed an IPA in the primary and i had a couple of days where the temp was down to 50 degrees which is out of the zone and has stopped fermenting. My question is after i get the temps back up will it start again? Does it really matter how long it sits there out of the temp zone?

I want to filter the junk from the beer before I bottle it to get rid of the sediment at the bottom. I was thinking about getting a 12" long canister filter with a cheap aquarium pump attached and pump the beer from the primary, through the filter and to the secondary. What do you guys think? Is...

I just bottled my two batches of Scottish Ale and American Light Ale. I had them in a temperature controlled fermenter for 11 days set at 61 degrees. The original gravity was 1.07 and the final gravity was 1.035 on the Scottish Ale. I bottled the beer and opened a bottle after 4 days. The...

What is the recommended final specific gravity of a Scotch Ale and a light Ale? My original gravity on the Scotch Ale was 1.07 and the light Ale was 1.03.

I currently have a light ale in the primary now and would like to turn this into more like a lager. I heard you can move it to the secondary for another week at a lower temperature. Can anyone shine any light on this and what to do? I have temperature control.... Thanks, :mug:

I visited Morebeer today. What a great place. I picked up 2 batches of beer and figured 9/11 would be a great day to brew. I placed them in my new aquired freezer with temp controller and set at 61 degrees. Time to make some real beer..... :rockin: Primary #1 - California Light Ale (OG=...

I'm stoked!! I just recently bought a chest freezer and a Ranco temp controller to maintain proper temperatures during fermentation. I did an experiment first with a beer bottle full of water to see if the temp will be stable. I placed the thermocouple probe in the bottle and wrapped the top of...

I just wanted to say whats up to the beer world. I just made my first brew of a brown ale. 2 days in the Primary.