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Well... have you? What do you think of it?

What is the best non stout/really dark beer to try from goose island?

I'm from Missouri, and around here, people really like boulevard. It's not the most popular, but regardless is held in high regards. I honestly enjoy all their beers, especially Boulevard Wheat on tap, but I don't have that refined taste that homebrewers gain over the years. What do you...

So... I've heard about it a lot, what is it?

I'm quite the beginner, but I have had the same thing happen to me in my first 2 batches. I think it's because you boil off a lot of the measured water that you account for. Try making a line on your fermenter, and filling the rest of the way with water right before you ferment. This should...

must you siphon off the top of the wort, or could you strain it out really quickly with a strainer?

So what's the right kind to get?

Believe me, I'm not being an idiot with this... other than I have a proof and tralle hydrometer, and I noticed it says it's to be used with specific gravities less than 1.000. I think it might be the wrong kind??????

Is this after fermentation before bottling? I thought it was after boiling, which there shouldn't be any trub correct?

describe how you get the hop pellets out of the wort using a whirlpool.

I tested it in the tube the hydrometer came in. I tested water in this tube, and as said it was room temperature, but I was testing with a 60 degree hydrometer. It read right below the .000, so it should be calibrated. I then placed some beer into the tube, and it read as originally, right at...

That still doesn't help me with my hydrometer reading. It was floating literally as low as it could be floating. There wasn't an inaccuracy due to not being at eye level, it was just as low as it could go.

Thing is I spun the hyrdrometer, and even picked it up and moved it. I also have no idea what the floating stuff was, maybe just krausen foam curdled up. My hydrometer is accurate, so why doesn't it show my "objective ending fermentation number" of 1.012?

yo. I got a hydrometer to see if my beer was done(i didn't have one at the beginning of the brew). I did this because the beer bubbled and had foam krausen, but then after about 36-48 hours things ceased. After that, I didn't see a bubble pop through if I stared at the airlock for 2 minutes...

I want to make mead. What is a basic recipe, that I can add fruit to, if I want to experiment to make a nice mead? I know how to brew beer, so relating the steps to that will help a lot. For instance, how long do i have to ferment it, boil it, bottle-age it, etc, any differences in yeast...