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Hey all, I came up with this recipe for a Russian Imperial Stout, but I do not have brewing software to tell me the specific specs for the beer. If you all could give your thoughts about it that would be great. Thanks for your help. Batch size: 3 Gallons 9# 2-Row Pale 1# Oatmeal 1# Chocolate...

I am planning on brewing beer in 3 gallon batches now but I didn't want to buy another $20 carboy. I saw 3 gallon water containers (similar to the ones that you put in a water dispenser in your home) at the store for cheap. Will this work as a fermenter or do I need a specific type of plastic?

Im trying to create an IPA recipe and I want at great combination of bittering and aroma hops. Any suggestions will be great thanks.

I was wondering, everywhere says to boil the water you will use to rehydrate your dry yeast packet. My question is can you avoid that step by just using bottled water or would that have to be boiled as well?

Hey I'm new to all grain brewing and I was wondering about the amount of water used to the boil time. I only brew in 5 gallon batches and I've read that foir the strike water you want a 1.25-1.5 water to grain ratio and then 1/2 a gallon of water per pound of grain for sparge. So depending on...

I wanted to added some brown sugar to my recipe to bump up the ABV and hopefully to give it more of a "sweetness" to the final beer. Will the brown sugar do that or should i just add some specialty malts? Also if I did add the brown sugar when should I add it, at the start of the boil or towards...

I have an extract batch that I really liked and I wanted to make it using an All Grain system I just bought but I do not know how to convert it. Here is the Recipe Grain Bill: 7# - Pale Liquid Extract .5# - Caramel 20 .5# - Caramel 30 Hops: .5 ozs - Chinook - 60 mins 1.50 ozs -...

I have been wondering if you are brewing all grain and have malt that does not need to be mashed, like crystal malt, do you mash everything else and then steep the crystal or can you put all the grain together and mash everything together.

I brewed a batch of beer the other day and didn't notice until I pitched the yeast and put the airlock in that I only had about 3.75 gallons instead of 5. I didn't want to mess with it after I had put the airlock in so it is fermenting in the primary fermenter. All I have is are 6 gallon...