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I was drinking my first home brew beer over the weekend, and I've realized, there's no head! It seems to be carbonated but...no head. Is head related to carbonation? What's the problem? Thanks!

K everybody, I opened one early. One week early. Whomever it was who said that I would love my first beer no matter whatever it tasted like: you were right:) I love it:) think it tastes delicious:) I'm SO HAPPY:) I posted a picture of me and the beer here...

Does it ever happen that the wort blows off the lid of the fermenting bucket and makes a mess? When and why? And, if the bottles of beer were going to explode, when might that happen? Within days of bottling?

This is my first experience brewing beer! I just bottled a week ago, so I have one more week to wait before I can drink. I can't wait!!! But I have a question. I made a lot of mistakes during this process--some of them I know of, and there are probably many more I don't. Here's one mistake...

Hey! I just bottled my first brew. I'm so excited!! One of the things I was wondering as I was bottling: what if I bottled it before the brew reached final gravity? Would it be bad? What would that do?

I'm just learning about this--I'm new to home brewing. Something has been on my mind for a while and I can't figure this out: if cleaning and sanitizing is so important to brewing, how is it that people have been successfully brewing beer for thousands of years? They didn't have the means to...

Hi! I'm a beginner, never brewed before. I'm going to start brewing with extracts because that seems to be the usual advice, but I'm already thinking to the future and all-grain brewing. I was wondering: what are the differences (in process) between all grain and extract, and what is the special...

I'm new to brewing and have not yet started my first batch. I'm just finishing collecting the materials I need to get started. I have most of the supplies I need at this point, but I haven't bought a brew pot. We have a huge stainless steel pot at home already, but I have some concerns about...

Hi everybody! I'm new to this forum and new to brewing. Actually, I became interested in beer brewing about 8 months ago, after several years of baking my own bread. After going through the fermenting process bread and maintaining a starter for my sourdough, I realized that fermenting things is...