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I bought a brewers best Belgian IPA kit and whipped it up the other day. I am looking to get it into secondary and dry hopping very soon (as per directions) and am contemplating going to tertiary later and hopping again (because why not?). I plan on bottling this in 750ml Belgian bottles with...

I am making an arrogant bastard clone and I would like to use different size bottles (really, just to be fancy). If I am batch priming can I still do this or will some bottles be over carbonated while others are under carbonated?

My first mead has been in primary for just about 2 weeks now and I am going to start taking SG readings to see if it is time to rack just yet. I was poking around and I just stumbled upon a thread that said when racking to secondary, I want to leave as little head space as possible. I...

So I have my first batch in the fermenter right now and it is bubbling along quite rapidly. The recipe I followed noted to bottle when the gravity hit 0.980. I forgot to take a reading initially, so I am not really sure what to look for and when to act. Also, should I rack to a secondary at any...

I have a regular plastic bottling bucket with a tap near the bottom and a snap on lid that has a built in rubber gasket. Im assuming this makes it air tight. For my primary I know i need to ferment in here, but im not sure how to allow the pressure to escape using this setup. I have seen lids...

Hi all, so I recently got into brewing beer and mead has suddenly caught my interest. I am planing on making Charlie Papazian's Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit Mead. Now I don't wanna invest a year or so in this to not have it turn out well, so I have a few questions. 1. Where is the best place to...