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I'm fermenting a NB-'new old ale'...OG was 1.070...It has been in the ferminter for 1 week..fermation seemed to stop after 5 days[no bubbles in air lock]..since this is a high gravity ale,should I swirl the fermenter to see if I can get a bit more fermentation to take place.??..haven't taken a...

right now,I only have my basement to bottle condition...Is 60 deg. too cold to bottle condition ale ?[that is the floor temp]

I love ales from the British Isles..I have noticed that a lot of 'kits' for British ales use American hops and sometimes American yeasts..If I want a British ale,shouldn't the kit have both British hops and yeasts for the 'full' taste?

I bottled a batch of NB English Pale Ale 2 1/2 weeks ago..stuck with NBs kit,except I added 1 lb extra of DME..between primary and seconday,it was almost 6 weeks before I bottled..Nottingham yeast was used...stick on thermometer showed 67/68 degrees,except the 1st 2 days when it hit 71..since...

yesterday I bottled another batch..this was my 1st time using an 'auto-siphon'..the A-S ,I got has the 3/8" OD tube...I connected a 3/8"ID hose to it and started the transfer to the bottling bucket..I noticed that where the hose and the siphon tube come together there was a generation of bubbles...

I brewed a NB 'English Pale Ale' kit yesterday...I did add 1lb extra of dme and 1/2 lb lt brown sugar...the kit said that the OG should be about 1.050[without the extras]..after agitating,with paddle till it had a 4' head, for about 15 min,I drew a cup of wort fron the spigot to check the OG...I...

..ever drink any 14 year old stout ??..A friend of mine joined me for New years..he 4 bottle of 'Russian Imperial Stout that he found back under his basement steps..let me tell ya...MAN,was it ever good !!!,not a beer that I would want to drink more than 2..it was marked at 9 1/2 % when...

I couldn'y wait any longer..last night I tried my NB-St.Paul Porter..It had only been bottled for 2 weeks..carbonation a bit low[I like low carbed beer]..great lasting head..about all I can really say is ...WOW !!..great tasting..smooth,nice malt flavor with just enough hop flavor in the after...

If you are as good with 'glass' as I am,cheap glasses are the only way to go.. My local Wal-Mart carries 'Anchor' brand...the model called "Belle' is a close 'shaker'..17 oz and only $7.97 per 12 glasses !!..a dozen should last me less than 6 months before they get 'Humpty-Dumpty' syndrome..

I just bottled my 1st brew..it was 'northern' St.Paul Porter...they state that the SG should be 1.052,I started with a of 1.060 [I had added 1/2 lb of dk brown sugar to the wort].. used US-05 yeast..I had good fermation in about 18 hrs..after 4 days there were no bubbles in the air lock...took...

I have a neighbor,who is into home brewing..when bottling,he bottles in 22 oz bottles,he also bottles 6 of the 'pony'[7-oz] bottles as his 'test' beers as to not waste his 22 oz'ers....

Does anyone have any good sites for downloading some tasty beer wallpaper ??

does anyone use this stuff?? lets hear the 'Good & Bad'..I noticed that the directions are for 5 imp.gallons..I'm guessing that this needs to be cut back some for a 5 US gallon batch..

just finishing up 12 days in my primary and about to rack to my secondary..primary has bottom spigot to transfer..question is:when draining to the secondary,there will be a vaccum pulled on the primary..should the air lock be in or out ??...afraid of any contamination that might get sucked in...

I started a batch of Northerns'St.Paul Porter' on Wed..checked the OG=1.059 Put in an unheated pantry,that holds a temp of 63-64..I had air lock action after 18 hrs[us-05 yeast]..Just checked a while ago and the temp on my bucket reads 67-room still 63-64...would I be correct is saying that...

when doing a partial boil,the directions say to cool the boiled wort to around 100f before putting in the ferminter then adding cold water to bring the mark up to 5 gal..my question is: why can't the cold water be added to the hot wort[cooling]in the fermentation container to aide in the...

Please bare with me,I'm new to homebrewing...I have a 'Porter 'kit ..It has 2 varities of hop pellets..the 1st hops boil for 60 min and the 2nd hops boil for only 1 min..since the 2 nd hops only boil for 1 min.-should they be crushed to get their full inpact or left whole ??

I'm a bit confused on something...I have a 6 gal glass carboy and a 6 1/2 gal fermenting bucket..I see some ferment in the glass carboy and transfer into the fermemting bucket as their secondary fermenter and some ferment in the bucket and secondary ferment in the carboy..which is the right...

Hi everyone..it's been 40 years since I brewed beer and going to give it another try..After many years, my taste buds have evolved from cheap[any kind]beer to the tastes of fine Porter and mild stouts..anxious to start !! wbgv