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Hi, one of the 5-gallon recipe I have calls for a secondary fermentation in a different vessel, with dry hoping. As I don't have a 5-gallon glass vessel (looks like plastic is not recommended because of O2 permeability), I was thinking I'd use the 2 1-gallon glass fermenters I have. In terms of...

Hello, the weirdest thing happened for my 8th batch, a Black IPA 1-gallon kit. Everything went almost exactly as for all previous batches. I boiled the wort, added fermentable and hops. I cooled the wort, sanitized everything with 1-step and star san, siphoned the wort into my fermenter...

Hi, I'm reading about apparent attenuation and I was curious about the theory behind it. Let's say I'm brewing a beer with an OG of 1.076, fermenting it with a dry yeast that has an apparent attenuation of 68-72%. Does that mean that after fermentation, the yeast will have converted between 68...

Hello New-ish brewer here I've starting brewing beer a few months ago, starting with 1-gallon batches, experimenting different styles of beer (IPA, Pilsner, Stout, ...). I will move up to 5-gallon batches soon! Excited by the wider range of recipe kits, but a little bit afraid by the larger...

Hello I'm still a beginner, I've brewed several 1-gallon batches in the past few months, and I'll start brewing my first 5-gallon batch soon. I have a question related to wort aeration and yeast starter: I've read that the purpose of aerating the wort in the fermenter is to dissolve more oxygen...