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Damien21

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Hey guys, just new at this. Right now I just brew extract kits and i feel like its just like making frozen orange juice but more complicated. sanitize everything, put the extract,sugar and yeast in the fermenter be check hydrometer reading etc etc and be patient.

well what I was wondering what are some small nuance type tips and tricks that you find give you more control over variables when it comes to brewing?

also if someone could fill me in on monitoring temperatures when it comes to brewing, what variables does it change? i feel like its something i should be doing. haha
 
well, for more control over your beer, you can still do extract brews, and including specialty grains which get steeped pre-boil.

number 1 tip: patience. yeah we all love beer, but rushing things is never really wise, while letting things go longer than planned often results in better beer (meaning, don't rush primary ...let it ride 10-14 days even on smaller beers).

you need proper fermentation temps or your yeast will be stressed and produce off flavors, or possibly stall out.
 
I wrote this around christmas, it contains links to most of the "tip" threads we have on here.

Look at any of the stickies, at the top of every section of the forum. 99.9% of any new brewers questions have usually already been answered and they are usually stickied somewhere in the forum, usually in the section it is more than likely related to.

In fact THIS ONE probably has every question answered in one place if people would only look. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/faq-please-read-before-asking-question-7909/

This thread has a lot of tips, but sadly some folks can't tell the difference between information and an opinion about something, so some of it has to be tacken with a grain of salt. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/stone-cold-lead-pipe-lockd-n00b-advice-54362/?highlight=stone+cold

Then these threads of mine are meant to be helpful. They're basically summations of things I've answered hundreds of times.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/revvys-tips-bottler-first-time-otherwise-94812/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/never-dump-your-beer-patience-virtue-time-heals-all-things-even-beer-73254/

But basically just look through the threads there's a ton of info here, usually repeated thousands of times.

In the time I've been here, I've come to realize there is no new questions ever asked, no new situations that we haven't seen 100 times before. I know people hate it when we say it, BUT the answers really are already here, and people really just need to do some digging. This time of year especially, with all the new folks, there's usually 5 different version of the same question in the same section being answered the same time and all in a row. Like right now there are 4-5 "Should I secondary or do long primary?" threads where we're cutting and pasting the same answers in each thread.

:mug:
 
When I do an extract batch and want to feel like im "not making frozen orange juice" I might boil a little extra water and put my already steeped grains in a colander and wash them. Maybe it doesn't do much but I certainly feel like I know what I am doing!
 

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