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You don't calculate pH, just check your LHBS or online for pH testing strips. They're pretty cheap to get

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I second for BeerSmith. It even has a scaling function to easily go from 5->1 gallons or any other way

I'll sign up when I get home. Are there any northwest arkansas brewers around?

I have a 2 gallon plastic fermenter that I use for this exact purpose. Midwest has them for $5. The bottom "ring" that supports the fermenter is wide enough to fit over most stir plates.

My first few batches had carbonation problems with the first few. It got better when I put the sugar in first. I probably was just lazy and didn't stir well enough. Good luck on your bottling this batch.

I thought you would say that. I would go with the others and say to stir really well. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I put the sugar water in the bottling bucket before siphoning the beer. If you stir well, it shouldn't matter, but it could be that you're not getting enough priming...

Did you drink them in a certain order based on the numbers? i.e. starting with bottle #45 instead of #1? It could be the homebrewer's pain of the last bottle drank being the best

I got very lucky in that my boss has all the welding equipment and agreed to help if I provide him with some of the tasty product! We went to a scrap yard and haggled the metal down to $50 and the casters were $3 each at Harbor Freight. It was my first time to weld...... so I made sure to...

I’ve been brewing for about 3 years now and I would say that about everything I’ve learned came from this forum. The only way that I can express my thanks is by bragging about my own stand I just recently built to make my own move to all-grain. The painted stand with the plate chiller...