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do i have to sanitize bottled spring water that i'm using to top off with?

does it matter if i use a bucket or carboy for primary fermentation?

hey, brewed and kegged a stout. primary fermentation 10 days... 7 days in keg kept around 40 degrees at 10psi... tasted it, not bad but maybe a bit homebrewy and green and low on carbonation... 3 more days at 12psi... tasted it, not much better and still low on carbonation. am i being too...

is there a benefit to a 1/4" or 5/16" barbed shutoff valve coming out of my regulator? all my ball lock things gas and beer have the 1/4" barb and swivel nut fitting and then on the dual regulator i've got one 1/4" screw in barb thing and then a 5/16" barbed shut off valve... i'm thinking i'm...

Mr Beer Irish Stout Refill Pack Gypsum Irish Moss Barley Caramime? Caramide? Cinnamon Coriander Ok folks, what can i do with this? I'm thinking at least the cinnamon and maybe the barley? not sure what you do with gypsum and irish moss.

Hey, building my kegerator. The friggin cornstarch thing isn't working for me. I've read enough about these fridges where it seems like I can just trust that if I drill a 2.5" in the center of the plastic top straight down I'll be fine. The freon line is like 7-8" from the back? Um, do I have to...

i'm confused how to sanitize the cold water? if all my equipment is sanitized and i'm boiling half the water in the wort and the other half is cold water in the carboy how do i know that the water in the carboy doesnt have bacteria in it without boiling it or something?

Hey, I inherited a bunch of corny keg homebrew stuff... the co2 regulator is the one that has dual pressure gauges sort of looks like this one... http://www.kegkits.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=JO60-2-K44BC&Category_Code=DPReg except the left pressure barb thing is a...

Hey, new to kegging... and homebrewing in general... and building kegerators so I'm going through a crash course here... wondering what the advantages and disadvantages to the 3 different versions of carbonation that I'm aware of... 1. dump some sugar in the keg to prime it... 2. force carbonate...

anyone have any forgiving beginners beer recipes? i'm in the process of building a 2 corny keg kegerator and am going to want to whip up a batch as soon as it's set. preferably something simple. i'm into pilsners, wits, hefeweizens, pale ales, ummm... pretty much all beer haahah. i guess for my...

Hey, I just inherited all this homebrew stuff and equipment to make a kegerator with. I got the cornelius kegs and that same sanyo fridge a lot of the folks on the boards seem to be using. The process seems straightforward I'm just hung up on a couple things with the CO2. I've got 3 cornelius...

Hey, I've made three 5 gallon batches of home brew over the past year, two batches of pale ale and a hef and they all ended up tasting the same... gross. The carbonation is good, the color is OK although all three looked the same amberish color even though the hef should have looked different...