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I have a dumb question about sanitizing and starsan. When you use starsan do you have to rinse it off after? Isn't the water rinsing it dirty or do you just leave it. For instance I want to sanitize something to dip in the beer to get a sample for my hydrometer. Do I dip the baster thing in...

I bought the Drakes IPA clone. The kit came with a bag of Briess carmel malt 40L in addition to the the crystal 40L and the crystal 15L. The Carmel is not part of the recipe yet i made the mistake of putting it in my beer. So now it will have a lot of extra malt in it. Do you have a suggestion...

My first batch of beer was not very good. I have a mr. beer kit and i made Bills Brew. I waited the about 3 to 4 weeks after bottling it and it just never tasted right. In the winter i had a problem with my house being too cold. I am going to guess it was around 55 degrees in my house. How does...

New brewer here... If i sanitize my brewing tools such as the measuring cup i use for priming sugar how long can i leave it out to dry? Because the sugar sticks to the thin cup and its hard to tell how much is in it. Or can i dry it with a paper towel? Or will that make it unsanitary again...

I was looking at the recipe kits on these two sites and none of them show the alcohol content on them. Am i missing something? I just kind of like to know what the abv is before i purchase anything.

I see a lot of beginner kits come with a plastic fermentation bucket and a plastic bottling bucket with a spigot. Why can't you just use the bottling bucket for fermenting and bottling? It seems unnecessary to transfer the beer to the 2nd bucket. What is the advantages of having a glass...

Every mr. beer recipe says bring to a boil then remove from heat. Well i followed this to a T and i fear i made a mistake because everything online says boil for 60 to 90 minutes. What do i do? here is an example of instructions from a mr. beer recipe. actually this one says boil for 5 minutes...