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Three Sheets, which is obviously the best drinking show ever on TV, no longer has a channel to show its episodes on since MOJO is shutting down. There is a group on facebook called Save Three Sheets that has information on how to contact the boys at Spike (and other networks) to tell them to...

I've noticed the past several days when I pour bottles from my first two homebrew batches that there are large bubbles in the bottle after all the liquid has been poured out. It looks similar to the way bottles soaked in starsan look when you drain them out. Is this normal, and can it affect...

For my third batch I'm doing a Scotch Ale. Like the recipe before it, I am supposed to use 2 gallons of water for the boil [with grain steeping, malt and hops addition], then cool the wort to 70*F. Once this temperature is reached, I am supposed to add 3 gallons of water to make a total of 5...

The first batch I brewed instructed me to boil 5 gallons of water, add all the necessary ingredients, then cool it down to 70 degrees F. My second batch instructed me to boil 2 gallons of water, add all the ingredients, then add pure water to reach 5 gallons, then cool to 70 degrees F...

If you bottle too early and create the possibility of bottle bombs, do they normally happen sooner or later? I want to move some of my bottles out of the basement and the brew was bottled 3 weeks ago, so I need to know if they are "safe" after this period of time.

Looking at the prices, the kits with the White Labs upgrade are still $10-15 cheaper than my LHBS. Has anyone subscribed to their kit of the month program, and if so, were you happy with the kits you received? I kinda like the idea of having to brew something outside of the range of beers I...

...instead of using a hydrometer to get a potential ABV%? Just curious. Hopefully there is a way other than using equipment at the local university chem lab.

For those with chemistry backgrounds, please see the title of the thread. Whatever chemical cleanser / sanitizer that you use has to actually go somewhere, right? If something is "no rinse", I assume that means that it becomes inert somehow in a manner that does not affect the brewing...

Okay. My brew is in secondary and the specific gravity hasn't moved significantly in several days and there is also no airlock activity. But I can still see movement in the glass carboy [yeasties and other matter that made it through the suction tubing come up to the top and then back down], so...

So for my second batch, I started another kit brew, this time an Irish Stout. The kit's starting gravity was from 1.048-1.052, but when I took two samples (after cooling the wort to 70F and adding water to make 5 gallons), both my starting gravities were 1.062 [temperature corrected]. When I...

I am probably getting ahead of myself since my first batch just made it into a secondary and the entire process has been a comedy of errors, but I was wondering if anyone incorporates the use of herbs in their beers. I have a degree in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine and I am familiar...

This might seem like an odd question, but since I am starting my first batch tomorrow and I have read about the topic of proper sanitation [ad naseum], I started to wonder about the transfer of sanitized equipment out from the 5-gallon fermenter. I plan on throwing my dish holder for the...