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Hi all, I currently have 4 gallons of barleywine wort cooling and just realized no yeast made it into the shopping bag. No brew shops are open and all I have in the fridge right now is some dry wine yeast. The shop opens at noon tomorrow. What do we do!! Should we just put it in the...

We have a pretty varied selection of bottles and I've lost track of which are which, but among them are those short lagunitas bottles, some fat tire, dogfishhead, bells, some local breweries, etc. I guess this could be where part of the problem is. I hadn't really thought of different...

A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend and I were bottling our third batch of beer when our bottles kept cracking when we capped them. We use the standard red capper that I think comes in most kits. Basically, we started bottling, the first ten or so capped just fine, and then when I capped one I...

Wstcstwil - thats actually the pot I asked for for Christmas! I think we'll go ahead and wait till we've got the 20 qt pot before brewing again. In the mean time, since we made so little wort and lost out on a lot of hoppiness, would it be a good idea to dry hop in secondary?

My boyfriend and I just brewed our first batch of beer last weekend (Holiday ale) and we used an 8 qt stock pot. It seemed to work out fine and we were able to boil it for an hour but I've read that making wort in a quantity this small can really reduce the flavor. Any idea how this will turn...