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i went shopping today and i picked up a bunch of grains to make a stout. i think i got way too many roasted grains, i didnt know what i was doing... here's what i got: roasted barley - 350g chocolate malt - 250g black patent malt - 125g crystal dark(120) - 125g carafoam malt - 125g...

I want to pitch my Wyeast 1272 American Ale II into a 6 gallon wort of about 1.060. the directions say pitch into 5 gallons. is this ok? b should i make a "starter"? i don't know what a starter is.. (..i'm brewing a 5 gallon Brew House IPA kit and I am steeping i 2.2 lbs of honey malts...

I was just wondering if there is a general rule-of -thumb to figure out how much fermentable sugar you can get out of malted grains. for example: if i steep 1 lb of grain in 1 gallon of water for 1 hour, how much sugar or DME/LME would that be equal to?

this is my very first batch of beer. it's been in the secondary for about 20 days now, and there is still airlock activity and small bubbles fizzing up the sides of my carboy. we dry-hopped it twice in the last 20 days, once when we racked, and once about 5 days ago.. the beer isn't...

my uncle gave me a whole bunch of coopers and john bull beer kits which are all about 5 or 6 years past expiry. some even more.. there is no bulging on the sides, and have been kept cool in a basement. he swears they're still good and says the stuff never expires but he also makes beer...

Hey there, this is my first time posting on HBT, i've found it very helpful to me over the last month. this is my brother and i's first batch of brew, so we're kind of learning and making it up as we go along here. we purchased an Oktoberfest Brew House kit from the beer store. it came...