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My favorite bottle is Belikin Beer. It's only brewed and distributed in Belize, so you basically have to go there to get some. They are very thick, meant to be re-used. An empty one weighs about the same as a regular beer (bottle + beer), and they have a cool bottle and label that's printed...

I think you will risk contaminating the batch. You might get lucky, but I'd brew something lower gravity so you can pitch without the starter on the same day.

It might not be the norm, but it's certainly not unusual. Probably a result of higher fermentation temp. If you have the ability, you'll probably get better taste by fermenting at 60-68 degrees.

Alright, well problem solved for now! I've never brewed cider before, but after doing a bit of research it seemed extremely easy, very scalable, and cheap. 3.75 gallons of cider in the carboy! I don't know why I didn't try this sooner.

Nice, that's a great idea. Maybe something few years if I end up moving.

You can clearly see the deformed shape at both the top, and the bottom. You can also see where I "thought" it was 3 gal and 5 gal. Not the case!

I normally leave the blowoff tube on for a few days after it stops foaming. I once put an airlock on only to have it kick up some more and make a huge mess. If the tube is long enough, I think there's a pretty small chance of anything getting sucked back in. Nevertheless, I still get a little...

I'm a somewhat new brewer...brewing about 6 months or so. On my very first batch, I made a totally rookie mistake: I poured my boiling hot wort directly into the plastic carboy (Better Bottle off brand). I thought I would put in cold makeup water and it would all even out at about the right...

I did that once, and the individual ingredients in the store were much more expensive than the price online (i.e. $19 for 3 lb DME in the store vs $12 online). I ended up paying more for the ingredients than I would have if I'd ordered the kit online and paid shipping (even worse if you are...

You're saying "racked beer," so I assume you're already planning to rack it from the fermentation vessel/carboy to a bottling bucket. If that's the case, just pour the corn sugar solution into the bucket before racking the beer. Then when you rack the beer into the bottling bucket (carefully)...

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm considering modifying my procedure as follows: -Leave the wort chiller out of the wort -Add the majority of the fermentables at flameout, mix vigorously -Add the wort chiller (my concern here is that adding all the extract at flameout will lower the wort...

English pleas!

I have been experimenting with late extract additions. For my last few batches, I have done late extract additions on all of my beers. I have a couple observations about this: -When brewing high OG beers, it is difficult to mix in all the ingredients at the last minute. -I typically boil my...

Austin Home Brew has shipping for $7 any order under $100, and $5 any order over 100. I normally buy 2 kits at a time + some other equipment I need and break the $100 mark. Also Northern Brewer has pretty good shipping prices too. Even though these kits might be slightly more expensive, the...

I am currently brewing a Christmas Milk Stout (extract), which seems to be stuck at a higher SG than I'd like. The recipe does include 1 lb lactose sugar, so I figure that is bumping up the SG somewhat, since it's not fermentable...but my SG still seems way too high. Here are the stats...

I am currently brewing a Christmas Milk Stout (extract), which seems to be stuck at a higher SG than I'd like. The recipe does include 1 lb lactose sugar, so I figure that is bumping up the SG somewhat, since it's not fermentable...but my SG still seems way too high. Here are the stats: Brewed...

Do you sanitize the hops then too?

Water is denser than alcohol...so burning off the alcohol should increase the FG slightly, but maybe not enough to account for the error in your analysis.

3rd beer ever is in the carboy now...so as of now...10 gallons :)

Thanks for the feedback. In that case, since I'd be letting it steep for 15 min prior to cooling, should I subtract 15 min from the boil time? And would you then add your aroma/flavoring hops at or after flameout?