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I am converting an extract kit to partial mash by adding 2 lbs of 2 row pale malt to the specialty grains and mashing for 60 min. Obviously with only 2 lbs I will still be using most of the malt extract that the recipe calls for. My question is, the kit includes .5 lb of carapils and .5 lbs of...

I have an interesting situation. I usually do a partial boil/partial mash technique for my 5 gallon recipes (my pot isn't big enough for full boils, and a little extract makes up for missing gravity). But my wife recently came back from the brew store with ingredients for a 5 gallon all-grain...

I'm not talking about multiple gallons or anything. But lets say after my sparge I get an extra .5 gallons of wort in my kettle. Can I simply start my boil, let it boil down to my target preboil volume and then proceed with my first hop addition and 60 minute boil timer? Aside from darkening my...

Forgive the silly question.. But say I usually put 5 gallons in my keg and it takes 4 days to carb at 25psi. If I only put in 2 gallons of the same beer with the same psi, will it take less time to carbonate?

When it reaches spring/summer temps I'll be forced to use some kind of temperature control for fermenting. I'd like to continue brewing 5 gallon batches but the mini fridge I have as a fermentation chamber will only fit two 3 gallon better bottles due to their square footprint. Would i have any...

I'm a new homebrewer and inherited some of my equipment from a friend. I've been using a plastic stir spoon that has Fermenthaus stamped on it, looks like this http://www.midwestsupplies.com/24-stirring-spoon-plastic.html One thing I noticed while boiling just water and removing the spoon from...

Has anyone made this years Hopnog kit from Brewers Best? I was looking at my kit and it includes a palisade/calypso hop addition at 20 minutes. I've noticed the overall lack of popularity of these hops, would it be wise to just swap them with an equal amount of a different hop, columbus for...

I'm extract brewing and my kit instructions have said to start the boil with 2.5 gallons, chill and top up with another 2.5 in the fermenter. With the goal of a 5 gallon batch, should I most likely be adding more than 2.5 gallons to compensate for boil off? Or does the kit assume this and the...

I discovered that my brand new picnic tap is very touchy and will spray beer with the slightest pressure on the handle. Not to mention, when I set my keg pressure to anything above 15 psi I'll come back to a nice beer puddle a couple hours later. I know that I can reassemble it, or buy a...

I'm brand new to kegging and I think it went okay. I have a few questions in retrospect. I sanitized by filling half the corny with starsan solution and shaking it up, then hooking up gas and pumping it out my picnic tap for a while. I've heard that starsan can create a slime inside of hoses...