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Anybody give a little help?

I was in San Diego last winter and loved a local beer called four scowling owls by Karl Strauss Brewery. Been wanting to brew this but pretty inexperienced in putting a recipe together. I found some info on the beer and was hoping someone would take a shot at putting together a 5 gallon all...

We started our recipe by steeping our grains for 30 minutes. As we got to the end realized that we only have half of the extract we need. Can we just cover the wort til tomorrow and get the other can of extract and bring it to a boil and go from there? Thanks for the help.

we are breing some scotch ale and recipe is a little vague Do we put the brown sugar in at the end , after the aroma hops and just dissolve it and go right to cooling? Amount Item Type % or IBU 9.9 lbs Pale Liquid Extract (15.8 EBC) Extract 79.93% 1.3 Pale Crystal (50.0 EBC) Grain...

Like idiots, we did not take a reading before we sealed it up in the carboy. Can we do it now? Will taking the lid off screw things up? the griff

Brewed our first batch and all seemed to go well until the end. We used the liquid yeast and thought we burst the paccket inside to activate the yeast bit upon opening foumd out that we did not burst the inner pouch. After panicing for a moment we sanatized a knife, cut the pouch and mixed the...