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I've brewed a number of batches but have never had one that has gone through a fermentation process that is this vigorous... I brewed a hefeweizen yesterday. When I woke up this morning the 3 piece airlock was bubbling like crazy. I left to help a friend move and when I returned home...

I have a fermenting dunkelweizen. It showed visible signs of fermentation after about 48 hours and continued to do so for about three days. It then stopped which I thought was completely normal and didn't think anything of it. This was when a cold front came through and the house got...

These are 55 gallons, but they're cheap... Think they would work to convert into a kettle/mash tun/lauter tun so that I can start building an all grain rig? Or is the metal too thin to take the heat? http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/for/1591197389.html

Long story short - I peaked in my fermenter last night to see if there was any activity going on after 48 hours. When I got home from work tonight I realized that the lid hadn't snapped all the way shut after I closed it. The krausen is forming, and I don't think that anything got inside...

From Left to Right: English Pale Ale, Oatmeal Stout, and Dunkelweizen. The English Pale Ale looks a little dark in the photo, but it's much lighter than that. This is the first time I've ever had 15 gallons going at one time so I had to post a picture!

I forgot to put my White Labs American Hefeweizen Ale yeast in the refrigerator for about two weeks after I bought it so I need to make a starter to double check that it's still viable before pitching. Problem is, I only have LME for the recipe and all of the starter threads and directions...

I got a tube of White Labs American Hefeweizen Ale 320 for a Dunkleweizen. In the hustle and bustle of things, I forgot to put it in the refrigerator for storage after buying it. It's been sitting in a box in about 64 degree temperature for 15 days. Think it's still okay or is it ruined?

I brewed two 5 gallon batches two weeks ago (one Oatmeal Stout and one English Pale Ale). I also have ingredients for a Dunkleweizen ready to go. I was thinking about brewing the Dunkleweizen today and bottle it in two weeks to catch more of the suspended yeast in the bottle. If I did...

I've seen a few threads dance around this subject but have yet to find a definitive answer... I brewed an English Pale Ale and an Oatmeal Stout today and used my new copper immersion chiller for the first time. I was concerned about the cleanliness of the IC going into the wort so I did...

Just got my brand new copper immersion chiller out of the box and am going to clean it for the first time. I'm just looking to get all of the initial dirt and grime off of it right now so that when I brew on Sunday all I have to do is rinse it off and drop it in the boil to sanitize it. I...

Has anyone else read this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6874884/Alcohol-substitute-that-avoids-drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html Scientists are working on a substitute to replace alcohol. "The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to...

I'd like to subscribe to a beer magazine. However, there are a number of them and it's always tough to judge a book (magazine?) by it's cover. Anyone have recommendations? Which ones do you subscribe to? Any direction would be great.

I got a copper immersion chiller for a Christmas present! :ban::ban::ban: I have ingredients ready to go for an English Pale Ale and will definitely want to use the chiller on the batch. What do I need to do to give it a nice thorough cleaning before the first use? I've read things...

I have a closet with three shelves that I keep all my carbonating and empty beer bottles in. I've started to accumulate a decent amount of bottles so that I can have 3 or so batches drinkable at any given time. As the number of bottles increases I look in my closet and feel like they're...

I just got done brewing the Happy Holiday Ale recipe from Midwest. It's recommended to brew it 4-6 months before serving, but I'm not sure where the beer should be after the primary fermentation. I called Midwest and the guy I talked to said it could sit in a secondary for the remaining months...

I bottled my Java Stout and let it sit for 2 weeks to carbonate. The temperature of the house has been upper 70's and usually carbonates the beer in that amount of time. I tested one on the 15th day and it had a dull "Pst" to it when the bottle was opened. I gave it some more time and on the...

I'm about to move my Java Stout into the secondary, where I need to add 8 cups of coffee. I have just over 5 gallons of brew in my primary right now, and am afraid that when I add it with the 8 cups of coffee in the secondary I won't have much head space. How much head space do I need in...

I brewed my third batch yesterday - one of the Java Stout kits from Midwest. I put a little more in the kettle than the typical two gallons to try to disperse the flavor in the batch and put just over 3.5 gallons in the boil. It took a while for the boil to happen, but it did eventually...

Couldn't find any tips on here about it. It's not a huge problem, but I always have trouble getting all of the sanitized water to dry in my auto-siphon and tube. It obviously does over time, but then it leaves the water marks and such. Any suggestions to quickly dry the inside of an auto-siphon?

So I brewed on Friday and made an extremely dumb mistake. For anyone who doesn't know this already - The kitchen sink disposal is not a fan of grains... I had steeped my grains and added the hops. The boil was going along well. I was going to throw the grains and bag away in the trash (a...