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Found this paragraph in a blog called " TODAY I FOUND OUT " dated Aug 29, 2014 Plastic, on the other hand, is chock-full of chemicals that could potentially leech into your drink and ruin your beer and possibly more. For example, the plastic most often used to store soft drinks and indeed...

What do you think of this statement found on every can: "We know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age. Our exclusive Beechwood Aging produces a taste, a smoothness and a drinkability you will find in no other beer at any price."

Another brewers best russian imperial stout kit with 1lb brown sugar added for usual bumped up abv of 8.7%. You could go mad with this kit and get her up to 13% if you wanted, but I'm too old for that kinda drinking. It's A tasty trusted kit and a bargain at only 41.99 shipped. It's from some...

Getting a pretty strong feeling they must use a small quantity of Hello Kitty Teen Charm Body Spray available at Dollar General. Take a sip and see if you agree.

for kits etc is offering for their Barley Wine Kit: "Add 1% ABV to your brew WITHOUT affecting the flavor at all." for only an extra $2.00. This concerns a 5 gallon kit. WHAT do you suppose their special blend would be? Seems to me it would have to be at least a pound of dme and a pound of...

Normal air is 20% pure O2. It seems that it would infuse just as well as pure, but would just take longer. Logical?

Next time I'm going to leave half the cooled wort in a second bucket to assure plenty of head space. After the wild foaming is over it will all go into one bucket.

I use a 5 gal. bucket with just 3 inches of head space. Saf Ale SO4 yeast. But this happens no matter which yeast I use. Is it best to add fermcap in the boil or at pitch time? I was told either is OK. I'm going to try the latter next time and give the foam a 2" diameter 3 foot tall "Tower" of a...

Right, Fermcap is what I meant. I'm just going to have to design a vent more difficult for the foam to exit. Wider and taller.

I put 4 drops into the 3 gal boil of high gravity ales but every time I lose about 20% to foam out of the 2 inch wide two foot long blow off tube. is this to be accepted with a high gravity batch? Fermaid simply doesn't seem to help here. OG 1.098

I always soup up my kits by tossing into the boil an extra pound of DME, 2 pounds dark brown sugar and a cup of molassas.

What is the general difference in say, 5 gallon batch for all grain when LME and DME kits are $35-$50?

Impulsively I added a half cup of Giraldi's 100% cocoa to the boil of a 5 gal batch of Belgian Ale. Now I see I'm seeing no more bubbles at the air lock after 48 hours. Yesterday (48 hrs after pitching) I saw 50 bubbles a minute. This morning, none. This seems like a very fast primary...

The recipe target is predetermined to be 1.062. I wanted to know what will two pounds of dark brown sugar and one pound of light dme add to that.

Is there a simple calculator that will indicate the change in specific gravities when a certain amount of a fermentable is added? I broke my hydrometer last night. Fermentation is under way. I have the kit OG But I've added more.