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Ok, so i am ready to start playing with water chemistry! I have been using my tap water mixed with pure water but I want to get more precise. I am brewing all grain. I will be starting with pure water from the water windmill (pay by the gallon place) Here are my questions 1. I have...

So am i better off using my tap water (high is all areas) half tap water and half filtered water or all filtered water and add some buffer 5.2? Is it easyier to adjust my own water or start with pure water and add some things to it?

so Saturday I bottled my 4th batch, and I feel like a one man assembly line! I have figured out how to put the bottling wand into one beer while capping the one before it and then grabbing the one filling before it overflows! Doing two things at once, has made mt bottling time way less!

so saturday I brewed an all grain double chocolate stout, bottled a Belgium dubble, cleaned 50 bottles, transferred my phat tyre to a secondary, and tried to restart my braggot. I am freaking tired!

So today I brewed my first all grain. I got 68 % effeciancy ( spelling?). I need a new thermometer!!!!! The turkey fryer had a hard time boiling 7gal. I only lost 1gal! But I learned alot and will do better next weekend (double chocolate stout!!!)

Ok everyone, how much water do you normaly loose in your one hour boil? I am about to do my first all grain, and just wanted to get an estament on how much wort to start with. I have a 7.5 alluminum pot and turkey fryer propain burner.

:mad::mad::mad: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH So I made my first starter today! I was going to use my new stir plate to keep the liquid moving....... but.......

ok let me start by saying....DO NOT BUILD A CHAMBER TO SAVE MONEY!!!!!!!! ok now that I have that off my chest. I finished my chamber yesterday. Here are some pics of my baby!

Ok I have been trying to figure this out and now i am frustrated. I will be brewing my first all grain batch this weekend. I am using Beer tools pro for water temps and volumes. The one thing I would like to figure out before brew day is how to figure out my Calculating Efficiency of batch...

Hi my name is Aaron, and I am a brewaholic. Who else finds themselves finding reasons to order things online when you really dont need them? Or brewing beer you have no room for? This hobby started as a simple and cheap hobby. Boy was I wrong!!!!!!!! It starts innocent then you start wanting...

I found 1 gal pure apple juice in a glass jug for 7.99 at drug emporium!!!!!

first let me say that instructions that came with kits are so bad!!!! Now, I have a braggot that I brewed 2/24. I forgot to take a og because I am an idiot! it was 6lbs barley malt extract 3 lbs honey yeast nutriance lalvin d-47 wine yeast and .5 oz nugget alpha hops my question...

well, I am having my tonsils taken out on friday so that means no beer for awhile :( i just bottled my hefe and my irish red is done in a week and I just got in my stuff to brew a doubble! So needles to say, I am in a big hurry to get the surgery and them get better FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, so I brewed some braggot on the 24th and it fermented like crazy within 12 hrs. Now a week later, it looks as if it has stoped fermenting! like one bubble a min. Is that normal or is it stuck?

here is my plan. 1 gal of cider 1 gal of cider with passion tea bags in the primary 1 gal of cider with bangle spice bags in the primary 1/2 gallon of half apple juice and half blueberry juice (just to see what happens)

so here is my problem. I have a spare room that I am storing my fermenting beer. It is right at 70. It works great for everything up to 3 weeks in the bottle. I am wondering if it is ok to keep my beer bottles in the room after 3 weeks or do I need to buy an extra fridge for storing beer at...

ok before I start, i have searched the forum many hours, so I have done the leg work. I will be doing 3 gallons of cider (3 1gal jugs so I can add passion tea to one, bangle spice to one, and keep one pure) my question is about secondary fermentation. 1. is it necessary? 2. Do I wait...

I live in Lubbock Texas, and we have a great group of homebrewers. I think that there is money to be made and friends to be had, if someone would open a brew store and a micro brewery here!!!!!! We are in dire need of both. I would do it, but I am to scared to spend that kind of money, and I...

so is there an addiction for home brewing? If so, I have it. I am still waiting on my first brew to finish "aging" in the bottle, and I already have 5 gal in the carboy, a hefe coming in the mail, and cider supplies and a braggot coming in the mail. I am also on this website every day...

I have ordered a hefe weizen and had a crazy idea to use some passion tea for some fruit flavor. I work at starbucks, so I am able to get a lot of tea for cheap. I was wondering if anyone has any advise, warnings, or have done something like this already. I would love any information that you...