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Definitely oxyclean an hot water for 30 minutes... Do not let the bottles fill up because oxyclean will leave a white film on the inside. I fill my bottles up with water about half way and stand them up in a large pan with hot water and oxyclean. 35 minutes later labels peel off with ease...

I am in the process of building a kegerator but still need most of the parts that come with a conversion kit plus a c02 tank! Thought maybe you guys could help me out by sending me in the right direction towards purchasing these items (I'm shooting for cheap)! Website or places I could look...

Sit in your closet under the stairs where your IPA is brewing just to bask in the hop glory!

After brewing my first beer I learned tons about fermentation, the different kinds of hops, that there is nearly a million recipes for just about anything you want to make, that you can spend 100 dollars or thousands on beer making equipment but most of all I learned that fellow brewers hardly...

You'll be fine. If I've learned anything from brewing/reading/researching its that you'll never really know exactly what your beer will taste like until its done. Sanitize well and everything should be just fine. Btw you shouldn't dry hop until 5-7 days before its done.

I recently transferred about 4 1/2 gallons of beer from my bucket into my 6 gallon carboy. My concern is that with quite a bit of headspace it's at risk for infection because there isn't enough c02 being produced in the secondary to protect the beer from air... any thoughts?

Yes of course! Can you still taste the hippiness of the beer? I'd like a berry taste but just slightly.. Maybe like a berry finish.

For my next brew I was thinking a pale ale with cascade hops and some kind of fruit tossed in the secondary, maybe like cranberries or something similar. Any ideas? Suggestions? Concerns? I've never done anything with fruit before, neither have I had a hoppy/fruity beer!

Ok great, but I should of asked the second question better... I meant that how long before bottling should I cold crash it?

I plan to cold crash my current pale ale before bottling. My question is; what is the ideal time and temp for cold crashing. How will this affect the time of bottling?

To be honest I'm not sure whether or not oxidation is a threat with this particular beer, it's a Sierra Nevada clone. I have not met my target OG yet. I'm fine with a few less bottles but since I used the amount of ingredients for a batch of 5 gallons will less than that be a big deal taste wise?

So on the 24th I'll be siphoning my beer into my secondary for another week and when taking a reading I noticed that I have a little less than 4 1/2 gallons when my recipe called for 5. Would it be bad to just add an additional half gallon into my secondary after or before I siphon?

So my first brew (pale ale with perle and cascade hops) is currently fermenting but I have two concerns with it. My first is that I haven't witnessed any bubbling in my airlock and its been over a week (although I wasn't checking it every few minutes and my bucket is fairly large with only 4...