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I hope that's where this ends up, that would be perfect! Haha :)

I wonder if there's a market for fresh caps of that type. If you've ever tried to smuggle booze, you may be aware of plastic bottle caps with unbroken seals, wine caps with shrink wrap, etc. They have new seals and are cheap. Like 50 for 5 bucks cheap, if my memory serves. They would give you...

Thanks very much, this is legitimately interesting. I saw the guys at basic brewing (youtube) reused some aluminum bottles for camping trips. It's sealed from light as well. I would have never thought to try to remove the labels, it's kind of impressive you were able to do it at all. :) I...

Ok, thanks for that!

I have an app with beer recipes called DIY dog. Under the recipe for "77 lager" they include a brewing tip: "Watch out for collecting too much wort. Collecting too much liquid from run off (under 1008) may impart massive and undesired 'grainy' flavours into the beer." I've never encountered...

If you plan on aging for many months in a carboy, it makes sense to think about oxygen exposure. In my humble experience, you are fine up to 3 months or maybe more, even with lots of headspace. I personally think this is plenty of time for a simple recipe to age. Remember also that the exact...

If yall partake in smoking you may be familiar with some hands positions that allow you to create a draw without touching lips to a cigarette. Here's one that works: If you roll your hand into a loose fist like you are holding a stick, then put your mouth in the hole by your thumb and draw...

I too have three cheap stock pots purchased at various places including the cheap Walmart line. None will stick to a magnet and all work excellent on my induction cooktop. Try with some water sometime before counting them out.

You can use a tool to separate your lips and the tool (a straw, etc) or fill the tube from the faucet so it's already loaded with water. I think most autosiphons have the nub on the end to draw from above (mine does), and you are describing my process exactly...i recommend everyone give it a...

I think the key is clarity or yeast in suspension vs. Sediment. I'm saying you can bottle clear beer from primary, but it is hard to do so without picking up sediment or wasting beer. But I would definitely encourage anybody to try--with more effort or better technique they can probably do...

Sorry, I just was thinking of my latest brews. But this is typical for me even with cider and mead yeasts, US05 and 04 English yeast, hefe, etc. (though English gives the best results among them, occasionally perfect clarity when used for cider). I put my dip tube halfway down, clench my teeth...

I only primary but I get lots of yeast in my beers. So each time I sort of regret not using a secondary, especially when i give beer to friends. After a few transfers with a poorly sealed racking cane (which allowed bubbles of air through the hose along with the beer, ao every drop got super...

Keep em coming!

This is awesome, thank you so much! That's a lot of great ideas

I'll see if that beer heading liquid is available near me. I didn't even know that existed!

My simplest extract recipe is below. 2.5 gallon recipe 1 can light LME (3.3 lb) Boil 0.5 oz perle hops for 45min Add 0.5 oz with 15 and 5 min left. Cool to 60 then pitch California common lager yeast. Bottle prime with sucrose to 2.7 or 2.8 vol co2. When I brew all grain or have...

I would love to make beers that have an absolute chimney of foam, if I could. Or at least learn some tricks for certain recipes worth using them on (I have light summery beers in mind these days).

Thanks for the maltodextrin tip, I haven't heard of that one

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had tips for maximizing head and foam. This is especially hard for me in extract recipes. I've been doing some research before posting. Looks like adding wheat helps (does this include wheat extract?) and "cara" type steeping grains. I'm seeing mixed...

Also you can use an app like Brewking (free) or others that take OG and alcohol into account, so you can still take refractometer readings without being wildly off. You just need to have the OG in order to adjust the output value accordingly. There is never any serious harm in pitching more...