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I have had some great input on water profiles for an all grain Kölsch I’m brewing using RO water for the first time using salts. I’ve been playing with the calculators built into beersmith, as well as EZWater and John palmers app, however it can be very frustrating trying to reach my targets...

I recently purchased a chest freezer and an inkbird temp controller. I plan on brewing with safeale us-05 this weekend I called my lhbs to ask what temperature I should set it to if I wanted to ferment at 70. He told me to set it to 68, and make sure the differential is no less than 66 and no...

I was looking at these brew kettles, http://www.bayouclassiccooking.com/baclbrke.html I've never used a false bottom before and this one says it sits 3 inches above the bottom I'm wondering if that is too high ?? Wouldn't there be a significant amount of water that wouldn't even touch...

ive searched on the forum but mostly all I can find is converting light LME. I know the ratio should be someting like 1# grain/.75# LME But what other grains should make up a Dark LME? can you help me convert 6.6 lbs of Dark LME? thanks

so 2 out of 3 of my brews have turned out horrible, even after 5 months the first is bad. after 3 weeks in the fermenter(each), the beer tastes fine, just flat and warm. but after 3 weeks in bottle they became horrible.... is this an indication my bottling procedured need to be fixed or can...

so i just finihsed my 3rd brew, a london porter, and even though its only been in the bottle for 2 weeks, it tastes much like my first brew, a stout which i made over 4 months ago, like vinegar. my friend who has been brewing for a few years has never had this problem with his stouts and...

i have read on here that you can divide up the boil if you do not have a big enough pot, but i havent found much detail on it. heres the situation (no im not from NJ) i ONLY have one 3 gallon pot and london porter recipe from AHS. the recipe calls for boiling 2.5 gal then mashing the grains...

last batch that i bottled i just threw all my caps in sanitizer then picked them out from there. once done i set the caps aside to dry(or so i thought) and then put them in a sealed plastic bag, now there is some rust goin on around th edges of most of the caps but not where the actual beer...

ive read on these pages that you should wait until fermentation is done until racking into the secondary, others say when it's not quite finished fermenting. the directions on my brewers best kit says to do it before fermentation ends (5-days). i went ahead and re racked today (8th day) so...

i was thinkin of making something like a root beer porter or even an alcoholic root beer. good idea? any one try this before?

This Saturday will be exactly 3 weeks in the primary for my first brew, Irish stout extract,which I hope to bottle Saturday, and I wanted to open the bucket for the first time and take a gravity reading to make sure it's ready My question is- I've read several times that you should take...

ok so i didnt have an insulated cooler like an igloo but i did have this plastice bucket to keep a party keg in. put the fermenter bucket in with water and ice packs and put my own lid on. is this good enough to keep the temp down or did i make the lid for nothing? also, i was thinkin about...

i looked for the swamp bucket pages as fast as i could but im afraid i have to leave soon for the day. i am on day 3 of fermentation of my first brew, an irish stout. it is sitting in the laundry room probably around 75-77 degrees. i really dont know. i have a swamp bucket and i was considering...

well i posted this under recipes and ingredients but since no one looked at it, i figured id try it here.... anyways me and some of the guys were talkin about makin a beer with protein. is this a bad idea? if not, i could use a flavorless protein but when would i add it to the mix?

some of they guys and I were talking about tryin a protein beer. is this a good idea? would a flavorless protein work and when would be the best time to add it to the mix?

im from tampa but living in orlando so i have direct access to both of these locations, but for the money, which one is better out of these basic kits? http://www.beerandwinemaking.com/beerkits.html...