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I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on using a 2 or 3 gallon plastic "refrigerator bottle" for fermentation? They look attractive because they are cheap (under $20 on Amazon) and have a spout which looks like it would eliminate the need for a racking cane.

I had a pint of Wells banana bread beer the other night and thought it was a great change of pace. I decided to try a very simple recipe to duplicate it, but maybe a tiny bit sweeter. (This uses real bananas, rather than using a hefe yeast at high temps.) Here's the recipe I made last night...

I made a wiki page based on my (recent) experience with the BBS AG kits, which you can brew in a small kitchen with standard size pots. As long as you don't mind making 1-2 gallon batches instead of 5-gallon, this is a manageable, inexpensive, and satisfying way to get into all grain brewing...

I just made a chocolate maple porter (using the 1-gallon Brooklyn Brew Shop all-grain kit), and as an experiment decided to leave out the hops! I've opened two bottles and the taste is (as expected?) weird -- kind of a soy sauce flavor. I was pretty careful about sanitation so I *think* this...

Hi, I'm making my first brew, using Brooklyn Brew Shop's Chestnut Brown Ale gallon kit. After 24 hours of bubbling in the fermentation bottle, I now see almost no activity at all. I "modified" the brew by adding 15oz of canned pumpkin before boiling. Also, my basement is a bit cool, 65 deg...