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Living in the country, my water supply is well water run through a softener. I have no idea what chemicals are present. Any thoughts as to checking for chemicals.

OK, 4th batch in primary and I still consider myself in the early novice stage of my whole brewing ability. My brew is a dunkelweizen, using the "Brewers Friend" brew steps the OG for this style was to be 1.080, however it ends up at 1.050. My question then is if I shoot for an OG of 1.080 and...

I hadn't planned on doing a secondary fermentation, but in this case might it be worth while just to be able to put the wort in a cleaner bottle, or am I just worrying to much? As a newbe my brewing has been not been very positive.

Oh my, brewed a batch on Thursday last week returned from a long weekend away today (Monday) and the stopper and air loc had blown 10 feet away from the bottle and lost a couple inches of wort for a five gallon container. I do believe that fermentation has started. I have no idea how long...

You all have been helpful so far with my newbe questions, so here goes another. Just finished a wheat beer, DME, whole hops, and steeping grains.Added a whirlfloc tablet at the end. Finished the batch and while it was cooling I noticed some sort of sediment suspended in the wort. After I pitched...

Being new to the whole brewing thing, there is so much to read about all aspects of brewing and sometimes there is conflicting information, so what are the pros and cons of making a yeast starter. thanks newbe dave

Brewed my second batch of "wheat" and half way through the case I encountered a bottle that had a really "off" taste to it. To this point all bottles were very good. The cap popped off with nice pssst, good foamy head and no weird smells, just a taste that wasn't the same as the others. Any...

New to the whole homebrew world and just did my first partial grain/extract. Most of the containers of LME that I have found are 3.3 pounds, the recipe calls for 5 pounds of a wheat malt and 2 pounds of a light. I hate to be wasteful, so what to do with the leftover?? Can it be saved, what...

Newbie here, I am ready to start my second batch, first batch wasn,t bad. I wonder after an item is sanitized how long will it stay sanitized? First go round I used bleach, and rinsed. I guess what would be a rule of thumb for the time sanitizing takes place to the time you would have to start...