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I found this recipe, bought the ingredients without thinking and now I am questioning the recipe. This seems like an awful lot of hops. Sanity check please. Recipe: 7 lbs amber malt extract 1 lb black patent malt .5 lb chocolate malt .5 lb crystal malt, 60L 2 oz willamette at 50...

I brewed an IPA about 9 days ago. I was going to transfer to the secondary on day 7 when I noticed that fermentation restarted. I am guessing that when the basement cooled a bit, the yeast woke up and finished their job. So, since ferementation restarted, how long can I leave the brew on...

So I have kegged for the first time. I added 1/3 cup sugar, purged with CO2, and set the keg aside to carb up naturally. This was Friday (27 July). It seems I've got a problem now. The liquid side outlet can't hold the pressure and is leaking a little (and by little, I mean very little but...

So I am going to keg my batch of APA. It's ready to move from secondary to the keg... I have all the parts and built my kegerator. Now I just need gas. The local gas supplier says they exchange tanks...they do not fill the specific tank that I bought/bring in. Do I care? A tank is a...

My first batch was (actually still is but only a few left) a German Oktoberfest. Primary straight to the bottle; about a week in primary, 3 weeks in the bottle before I cracked the first one open. Damn good if I don't say so myself. I am using Brewer's Best extract kits for now to get the...

So I brewed for the first time today. When it came time to take the initial specific gravity reading, the reading came out off...1.035. The kit calls for 1.052-1.055. It's a German Oktoberfest kit. Is this bad? What did I do wrong?