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Hi all, For the second week straight, my attempts to brew a concentrated wort have failed miserably. Last week, my mistake was obvious. I followed Mosher's advice in Radical Brewing to multiply a 5-gal recipe by 1.4 for a 3-gallon boil, but I comically increased my water proportionately...

The beer will oxidize if it in contact with oxygen. The only time it is contact with oxygen is when the beer is first racked to the secondary. Once fermentation continues and the airlock is on all of the O2 is replaced by CO2 and you are no longer in danger of oxidation. Okay, that makes a...

When you guys leave your beers in secondary for a few weeks, how important is it to minimize air-space? The reason I ask is... I have a lot of 6.5gal glass carboys that I brew 5gal batches into, but I have a lot fewer 5gal carboys to use as secondary fermenters. I can conserve the amount of...

So what I ended up doing was hour or two soak of bottles in hot water and washing soda the night before bottling easily peel off labels while soaking, scrub any remaining residue with bottle brush soak in bleach for fifteen minutes the morning of rinse a few times and throw em in the...

Just washed my first batch of ~50 last night in preparation for my first bottling today. Washing soda + soak for a few hours worked great, even for Sam Adams (~25 of those 50), which I understand are fairly difficult to take off. Most of the other labels just sloughed off in the water. A...