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I have a refractometor, what can I use to sample wort during the boil that will not melt. They provided a plastic eye dropper with the refractometer but I would be afraid it would melt.

I am fairly new to brewing and decided to do some 1 gallon batches to try out 4 different hops with the same wort. After I did the first couple of batches I was stunned at the water loss. I had used the percentage I used for 5 gal batches. But that percentage was not close in this case and I was...

It is amazing how only the shrinkage factor has been propagated and is so widely used in all these home brewing calculators and programs. If you were to start with water at 68 degrees, you boiled it, had a way to loose no evaporation, you then cooled it back to 68 degrees you would have no water...

I agree with this one. I have moved to a touchless laser thermometer. One less item to clean, sterilize and potentially cause contamination. I use to check top of wort when cooling shooting for the top of the cooling range and I use to check temp of fermentation buckets. Figure if outside temp...

Stainless vs. copper tubing is going to have virtually no effect on time to cool. The metal is not cooling the wort, it is the water running through the coils that cools the metal that cools the wort. While copper does have a much better heat transfer coefficient, even with needing to be a...

I know people argue whole grain saves money over extract just like people state home brew saves money over store bought. Yeah your recurring costs (ingredients, additives, cleaners, sanitizers, grain bags, test strips, bottle caps, fuel, etc.) go down but your fixed costs go up for equipment. It...