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I'm lucky, though my wife is a little picky about beers, we have similar tastes so I can brew the stuff we both like. Have you ever been to Great Britain? My wife and I went there and I was introduced to still beers and still ciders (uncarbonated). From your description maybe your wife just...

I started with a basic kit so I could learn the process (I have a tendency to jump ahead). I've been slowly replacing things with better stuff as needed. I also started by brewing the things I like the best so I could determine how I was doing. While some gear needs to be ordered, I prefer to...

I'm only a few batches into BIAB so relatively new at it myself. A lot of people will probably criticize my process, but I'll share it anyway. For a number of reasons, I really don't want to get into all the fiddly details and do all the math... I feel like it will raise my anxiety and ruin...

What I do... crack one open after a week to "see how the carbonation is going". Then crack another one open in another week to "see how the carbonation is going and how the flavor is developing". Then another in a few days, then more, then more, then more. Why? Two reasons. 1. It's...

i recently made a great batch of Irish Ale. Tasted great, the color was almost perfect, the ABV slightly high but not off putting. I primed and bottled and the carbonation turned out just right. But now that they’ve conditioned for awhile I have this problem where every time I pour one, (see...

Yeah, but then you can't angle the siphon and gently tip the carboy to get the last bits out. I hate leaving anything behind. :)

I see a lot of this too, so let me put in my two cents in favor of secondary (though I'm not married to it)... I just bottled a beer where I didn't use a secondary. when I transferred to my bottling bucket I sucked up a bunch of trub from the bottom because the amount of it was higher than the...

Hey, don't you victim shame me! And yes, it was all my fault. First time fermenting in glass. I did have a terrible suspicion of it though and had a blow off tube ready. :)

I should think the answer is obvious... slightly more than 5 gallons to start. All in a 5 gallon carboy with some wonderfully aggressive White Labs Irish Ale yeast. Prior to brewing beers I had been brewing cider and headspace was never really an issue, with the exception of limiting it as...

I started out in cider then moved to beer. Rather than give you advice, I'll tell you what I did and it's been working well for me so far... I have very simple tastes in beer... Stout, Ale, maybe something simple and light in the summer. So, to start with beer, I started making the things I...

Thank you for this! I'm going to be doing some small (1gallon) batches and I was worried about the headspace... I blew half a gallon on my last 5 gallon batch. Hopefully this will help!

That is exactly what I was thinking... rocket fuel.

I did the exact same thing the first time I fermented in a carboy... 5 gallons of wort in a 5 gallon carboy just doesn't cut it. I had the same results.

If you're going to brew beer you're going to have to speak German. It sucks, but it's necessary. What's even more infuriating is that the terms are all different depending on what you're brewing. So, make it easy on yourself... forget about trub, troob or trewb... just brew cider and you can...

Everything went really right with this brew day... I was panicking trying to figure out what I missed... no dough balls, right temps, good sparge, solid boil. I kept second guessing myself. I'm going to have a tough time waiting the three weeks... the good thing about doing half batches is I...

Sorry for the delay... was in surgery. 2.5 lb Organic two row 2.0 lb White Wheat Malt 12oz Flaked wheat 12oz flaked oats malt was milled on a finer than usual setting to accommodate BIAB. Mashed at 152 degrees in 2.5 gallons of water for 90 minutes. Sparged with additional 1 gallon. Boiled...

I would LOVE to brew with rain water... just not sure about the stuff that comes out of my rain barrels... it gets filtered by the roof and gutters.

Temp was 72 ish... I meant that it was up in the table wine section of the hydrometer... round 1.080.

Hey, just a quick update... I started this brew yesterday. I probably had enough room to do a full mash in my kettle, but I went with the sparge as planned. In the end the OG was very high... like off the beer section of the hydrometer high, although I'm a little concerned that the wort was...

My first batch of beer not from a kit (extract recipe though), I topped off the wort with water as instructed to make 5 gallons. OG was a little low, so I added some corn sugar... didn't calculate it, just guessed. OG was high, so added some water. did this a couple of times until the OG was...