Recent content by MissStBrewDawg

I am working on my second batch which is a simple Golden Ale (my first I moved to a secondary and let it sit for a week before bottling and it now conditioning). Here is what I am thinking of doing with this batch and I want to see what pitfalls I should watch out for or if my ideas are bad...

Awesome, thanks JustLooking. I started using the bottling bucket for primary so I can take the gravity reading without having to open the top. Not sure if that was a bad idea....seemed like a good idea at the time.

I am moving my beer tonight into my secondary to begin dry hopping and I have a question about racking. What is the disadvantage/advantage of using an auto siphon instead of hooking directly onto the spout at the bottom end of the fermentation bucket? Every video and thread I have read shows...

I am amazed at those links and how much science goes behind brewing and how much has gone into finding answers to some of the major questions. What I'm most excited about is exactly what you said Gavin_C; the planning and research is what I have enjoyed. Not only that but I am looking forward...

Wow, once I started searching I didn't realize how many different options and ways to clarify beer there are. Thanks a lot for the advice. Awesome, Thanks for the information everyone!

The book I got with my first kit says secondary fermentation is used to produce a clearer beer. But I have never heard of cold crashing before, so I will look that up if it also produces the same result. I have planned on moving from primary into secondary and then when ready for bottling...

I am about to transfer my first brew ever from my primary into my secondary and I am going over my notes I took during the actual creation of the wort. When I moved my completed wort into my primary bucket (prior to cooling down to acceptable temp) I used a sterilized strainer to strain out...