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I just made a batch with a friend and we are conditioning it in his basement. Ours is definitely taking a bit extra time for it to carbonate. It's also on his concrete floor which probably doesn't help. I just assumed it would take a bit longer than normal and we don't really need to buy a...

Ok well basically what I'm asking is should I add the pumpkin and spices to the secondary or will that just mess everything up? I just wanna know if anyones done it and how doing something like that turns out.

I don't really understand what your saying. What's green beer and is mashing the only way to get that flavor? I thought by maybe putting it in the secondary I would get just a light pumpkin flavor to go with it.

So as we are nearing the fall season I was looking to make a pumpkin flavored beer. While looking at some recipies a lot show adding the pumpkin right in the mash. I was wondering if I were just to put a small baked pumpking right in the carboy kind of like dry hopping what that would do to the...

I'm looking to start an all grain beer and need to make a mash tun. I have looked up a lot of different ways and types to make one and I wanted to see what was the most effective. Should I use a round or rectangular cooler? Use a false bottom or use the copper tubing with slits? Or both? What...