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I've always used bleach to sterilize my bottles but would like to switch to idophor. Does it require a rinse after soaking? My old technique was to soak bottles in a bucket of bleach water for 2 min. rinse and put on bottle tree. If I can skip the rinse it might make bottling a bit more...

I brewed a batch of maple brown ale today folowing a recipe I found online from BYO magazine. It called for dried ale yeast,kind of vauge, so I used a Wyeast American Ale smack pack instead. I pitched the yeast about two hours ago, and I already have activity in the air lock, a good sign I...

Is there a shelf life for crushed grain? I'm going to have 3/4 of a lb of Weyermann smoked malt left over from this comming weekends brewing session. If its sealed up tight how long will it stay "good"? If its a short time, anybody got any good extract recipes that call for it:) Thanks

I'm about to brew a smoked maple amber ale useing maple sap for water, 6 lbs DME, 1 lb of crystal malt, and a1/4 lb of German smoked malt. It calls for 23 grams of cascade hops at 60 min. and 25 grams of Northern Brewer and 60 min. My question concens the % of alpha acids. The Cascade is 6.1%...

A quick question about disposing of bleach and iodopher sanitizers. I live with a 1000 gallon septic tank and leach field. Iv'e always been very careful about what goes down the drains cause I don't wan't to kill all the stuff in the tank that eats all the other crap(literally) that goes in...

Saw these kettles listed on Williams Brewing web site. The only downside mentioned in the reviews was material thickness, but the gave no info on the bottom construction. Anyone have any experience or opinions of them? Thanks

Not yet, snows still butt deep to a tall man and daytime temps less than 30. Nobody I know has even put taps in yet.

Hello all-been home brewing off and on for along time but have really gotten into it bigtime in the last three years. Been doing extract kits and recipes from books but I think its time to branch out. I"m comfortable with my process and cleaning methods, so the next step is better equipment...

I brewed a batch of amber ale useing light DME with smoked malt for flavoring and used sap in place of water. Started with about 8 gallons of sap and boil it down to 5 gallons. The recipe also called for a pint of syrup in the boil and 2/3 of a cup syrup and 1/3 cup corn sugar for priming. Two...