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planted 3 weeks ago. nuthin'. they were little spindly lookin things too. i'm tempted to dig them up, but haven't yet. when i got them they were just in a sandwich baggie. at what point should i do something?

how much corn sugar per bottle (16 oz) if i wanted to prime just a few bottles instead of a whole 5-gallon batch? it would be helpful if the amount could be in fractions of a teaspoon, rather than by weight. i don't have a scale that accurate. thank you.

is there any reason why i cannot or should not use regular old (inexpensive) table sugar instead of malt extract to make a yeast starter? the yeast will be wyeast 1056, if that makes a difference.

so i'm making an IPA today and i'm going to try this "extract late method" i've read about wherein you don't add the extract until the last 15 minutes of the boil. so at 45 minutes into the boil, i add my extract and stir it in. i usually remove the pot from the burner when i'm adding the...

so right now i've got the bucket that came with my starter kit. after two batches, it is already smelling like beer even after a vigorous, bleachy washing. so i'm done with it. i have a 5 gallon better bottle carboy for a secondary and i love it. so i want to get another and use it as my...

this is the first time i've done the following: a) secondary fermentation (in a better bottle carboy). b) dry hopping. i put the hop pellets in a muslin bag and threw them in the carboy. siphoned in the beer. looks good. smells great. three hours later there's another krausen...

hot side aeration bad... cold wort aeration good... you gotta aerate intentionally and with tools... no, you don't, your normal sloshing from pot to fermentor will aerate everything well enough.... color me confused. could you all give us beginners a breif (or lengthy, what do i...

could one (or many) of you please describe to me (in the same manner in which you might describe something to a 5 year with down's syndrome) what/how exactly it means to "sparge" the grains in step C of these here directions? http://www.highgravitybrew.com/docs/MyFavoriteIPA.pdf i aim to...