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So, I have been ridiculously busy with work, school and planning my wedding and haven't had the time to brew in awhile. I opened up the pantry last night and was digging around for something when I discovered roughly 144 ounce of homebrew dry hopping in a bunch of misc individual plastic...

I am brewing an IPA that I've made a few times in the past, but I currently moved to Arizona from Alaska. When I went to my local homebrew supplier, I discovered that they had White Labs instead of the Wyeast I have previously used. Since I hadn't gone online to find an equivalent myself, I...

After reading many posts on here asking how long we should leave our brews in the bottle for carbonating, I have found that the typical answer given is 3 weeks. I just opened up a few IPA's that I've had in the bottle for six days at 58-64 degrees and they are all very carbonated. I used the...

I awoke to the sound of glass breaking so I loaded my gun and went looking for trouble and all I found was this. I don't know which would've been worse. There used to be three growlers of leftover homebrew I took to a friend's house awhile back and I forgot about them. Notice the bottom of a...

Disclaimer: This post became a lot longer than expected. Only read if you’re bored…. Okay, so I’ve had some recent changes in my life that has left me on a very tight budget. But quitting brewing beer isn’t high on the list of things I’m willing to give up. Luckily I’ve hoarded some...

I brewed a golden ale and a lager back in the middle of June. I then had a personal emergency and had to leave my brew alone for the summer. It has been over two months and both are still in their primary glass carboy fermenters. The golden has been at room temp (roughly 64 degrees) and the...

I've read about the differences between cold pitching lager yeast and pitching as if it were an ale. This is my first lager, and I decided to pitch it at room temperature as if it were an ale, with the intent to move it to 50-55 temp when there is a definite sign of activity. However, it's...

So, as I was chilling my wort with my copper wort chiller hooked up to my outdoor spigot, I noticed there was a large leak where the vinyl tubing of my wort chiller meets the copper. It had sprayed 10 minutes (roughly a half gallon) of 'garden hose' water into my wort as it's most susceptible...

OK, I'm new to this site and relatively new to brewing. I've made a few extract and specialty grain brews with no problems at all. However I am not satisfied with the results of one of my brews and am wondering if it's too late to fix it. I brewed an imperial stout with an OG of 1.09 and an...