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Homebrewing is a serious time commitment. Extract brewing takes a couple hours, AG can take 4-6 hours. Then there's bottling, kegging, cleanup, etc. Many folks who love good beer have too many other commitments to get involved in this amazing hobby. That and the resurgence of good craft beer...

Bought them years ago at my lhbs. You can find them online as well, northern brewer carries them. They are initially expensive, compared to regular bottles, but they're a good investment. They'll last forever cause they're made of thick, heavy glass (you only need to change the gaskets every...

Thanks for the welcome everyone! 7 days and fermentation is done, but I'll leave it in primary for at least two more weeks before I bottle. My extract Caribou Slobber has now been in the bottle 7 days. No tasting till 4 weeks! Good thing I have plenty of store-bought in the fridge :)

Meant to post this video several days ago: Active Fermentation

Love mine! So easy to clean!

The whole "It's pointless to go to all the trouble to brew a small batch" argument is completely fallacious. If the goal were truly to mass produce beer at minimal effort, we'd all just go buy it at the store. The volume you make (based on need, practicality, budget, etc) is immaterial. We brew...

My Deluxe Lo-Tek "Cheap 'n Easy" 3-Gallon 3-tier Brewery! And then put away neatly in the utility closet :) Some of the stuff you guys make blows my mind. The wooden stands in particular are fantastic. Cheers!

I started brewing 3 gallon batches in the kitchen, now my back is much happier, and I'm doing AG in about 5 hours, instead of 7+ hours outside on the propane burner.

3 gallons of Palmer's Elevenses Ale 7197 + 3 = 7200

I used to know a guy in Atlanta that mashed overnight. He mashed in a cooler. He would get up the next morning and sparge/lauter. He had some philosophy behind his method, but quite frankly I've forgotten. He made excellent beer, though :) Try this link: Overnight Mashing

I've been handling glass carboys in various sizes for 15 years. I've been lucky to have never had an accident. Lucky and careful. You can be as careful as you can be and still have accidents, though. So I do what someone before suggested and I always wear jeans, closed shoes, and long sleeves...

Rarely is there a nice, simple answer :) I'd use 1/3 to 1/5 of the packet. I would add the yeast at the end, when all is mixed together in your fermenter.

:mug: There really is no set answer to that. Depends upon yeast, OG, temperature fermented, etc. Some will finish a little high in the teens, some lower in the single digits, mine finished at 1.009. The trick is not to bottle until you've had 3 or more consecutive days at the same gravity...

Flip tops absolutely work for aging. I've been bottling in swing-tops off and on for nearly 15 years. I will NEVER go back to capping. That said, the gaskets will need replacing from time to time, though normally they last for years. The bottles and wire bails, if taken care of, will last a...

It's glass, and oh so EASY to clean. One of the best purchases I've ever made. The plastic lid seems on the cheap side, but the benefits currently outweigh the faults. I am quite pleased overall. I made a conscious decision that I would only start brewing again as long as it was low-tech...

I next added 4.25 quarts of 200° water for my first sparge, hoping to get half my boil volume in the first runnings. Collected a little over 8 quarts into the brew kettle. 1st runnings: 1.068. For the second batch, I added 9.5 quarts of 170° sparge water to bring my pre-boil volume to 4.5...

Hey Brew Brothers, My First-New-Batch https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/brewing-again-after-5-years-458853/ after my long brewing absence is now bottled after 22 days in primary. That was an extract batch, NB’s Caribou Slobber, scaled down to 3 gallons. But I’m anxious to get back to All-Grain...

Just bottled :)

Just bottled! Final gravity 1.009. Tastes very very good:D Ended up with 6 1-liter bottles and 10 16-oz bottles.

3 Gallons of Caribou Slobber: 6883+3=6886 That's about 222 barrels ...