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I am trying to do something new with an IPA recipe i have been fooling around with, and i want to add mint to it. I am thinking of adding it in the secondary since i dry hop the primary. Has anyone ever brewed with fresh mint before and have any pointers? I dont want it to be overpowering and...

Ok so i made my first wheat beer the other week, the ferment was crazy so i finally invested in using blow off tubes. I use the 3 part air lock, and take the lid and middle piece out and put a 1-inch tube directly into the air lock and run to a vase filled with san-star water. My question is...

Just thought i would share my great experience i had last night and this morning. I made a specialty wheat beer a week ago, and was planning on transfering to a seconday yesturday (2 gallons of the five gallon batch i am experiementing with dry hopping it in 1 gallon measures for 2 different...

Ok all, i just picked up everything i need to make my first immersion chiller. I was wondering if you had any tips or tricks that will make shaping the copper, or any other part of making this thing any easier?

I am developing a recipe for a shwarzbier as that is one of my favorite styles of beer and I am trying to figure out of what kind of yeast I should use for it?

Just did a weizenbock batch, this is my third time brewing this particular recipe, and when i went to take the OG my hydrometer read 1.010 @ 68*F. To me this reads that there is 0% potential alcohol. I am not sure what i did wrong here. I caliberated the hydrometer with water and it seems to...

I brewed yesturday recreating my favorite recipe i take rediculous notes so i know that my process was exactly the same and the mash times and temperatures were all the same as well as boil time ect. However, i got an OG reading of 1.054 (not the 1.072 i got last time and was looking for). My...

I am planning out my "brewery" in the basement of my house (i have no garage and it gets cold outside in the winter so an outside station is out). Has anyone ever used induction stoves for brewing? I feel like it would be safer than propane or natural gas for indoors, and my stove is electrci...

I just brewed my first batch of beer, an irish stout. I have read several books and have looked over this forum, but cannot figure out if letting air in when siphoning from fermenter 1 to fermenter 2 is aloud or not. Do i merely take the air lock out, stick the siphoning tube in where that...