I am sure I am only the 100th person to post something like this but I am hopeful that those who know about brewing water will help me out. I have been brewing for a while now and I am working on researching more about water profiles, how they can be applied etc and I even sent off a sample of...
You can soak a towel in some sanitizer to wipe everything down with first. The reference to a blow off he is making is a blow off hose. It is essentially a 3 foot or so long piece of tubing that has a diameter that will fit snugly into the neck of your carboy (most commonly without the bung...
The best advice I can think of for your first go would be to take your time and double check everything: Ingredients, times, connections from vessel to vessel. My first AG batch got ruined from not checking the hose clamps on my immersion chiller, over a half hour a bunch of hose water ran into...