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I've found some infected bottles in my most recent batch so I'm revamping my cleaning and sanitation procedures. I was planning on letting my bottles soak in One Step for 2-3 hours and then rinsing them out with my faucet bottle washer. I have only used One Step to rinse out carboys, and am not...

I wash my bottles out in the sink right after drinking them and let them dry. Then I soak them in Star San on bottling day. Is this not enough? Maybe I should invest in a faucet bottle washer. Has anyone had any experience with those?

I forgot to mix the priming sugar but I did rack ontop of it. Could this be the culprit?

I brewed a Stone IPA clone kit from AHS and let it sit in the bottles for the suggested 5 weeks. After putting the first few bottles in the fridge for a few days, I tried it and it was amazing! Now a few weeks later the beer has started to taste bad and has developed way too much head when...

I try to use a yeast starter for every beer no matter what the OG. Mr. Malty's calculator will only go down to suggesting a 1 L starter. A lot of my low OG beers get automatically calculated as a 1 L starter when I use my stir plate. I was wondering if I should just always make a 1 L starter...

How long has everyone found it needs to condition in the bottles?

So if I start with let's say 2200 ml and boil to get 2000 ml of wort, should I add 200 grams of DME or 220?

I entered all my brewing information into malty, and it told me to make a 2 L starter. Does this mean I want to end with 2 L of wort after the boil or to add DME to water until I get 2 L in my flask and then boil? I typically lose 400 mL to evaporation when boiling 2 L.

So if I start with 2300 ml of water for a 2000 ml starter, do I add 200 grams of DME or 230?

I made my first yeast starter tonight. According to Mr Malty it was to be 2 L. So I measured out 2 L of water in my flask and poured it into a pot. Brought the water to a boil and added 200 grams of DME (1g/10mL). I brought it back to a boil and boiled the wort for 15 minutes. After cooling down...

Can someone please post the extract version recipe, Thanks!

I used my first yeast starter this week on an IPA with an OG of 1.070. It was a success and fermentation started quicker and more vigorously than normal. Anyways, I know yeast starters are typically recommended for beers with an OG over 1.060. I was just wondering if it would hurt to use them on...

Usually I check my beer's gravity 3 days before bottling and then once again on bottling day to make sure it has not changed. However, I have heard that as long as you leave the beer in primary for 1 week and secondary for 2 weeks, 99% of the time fermentation will be complete by then. I'm...

I just bought my first AHS kit and the instructions say to heat the water to 155 degrees, turn the heat off, and then steep the grains for 25 minutes. Past kits I have used have told me to maintain the water temperature around 155 degrees over the 25 minutes as opposed to letting it drop by...

what type of sugar did you use? brown sugar?

Should I try and boil as much wort as possible without a boil over?

how can I get it to 5 gallons without further diluting the gravity down? I hate to miss out on an entire gallon of beer.

I brewed a honey wheat extract kit today. In order to guarantee water quality and make sure my total water adds up to 5 gallons, I purchase 5 gallon jugs of spring water from the grocery store every brew. I boiled 3 gallons of wort and then poured 2 more gallons to top it off. However, the total...

I am brewing a honey wheat kit I bought from homebrewing.org. The directions said to add 1 lb of honey during boil. However after doing some research I've decided to add it during secondary (about 7 days after brew day). I was wondering what some good techniques for pasteurization were. I have...

I made the mistake of bottling straight from the spigot and not using a bottling wand. I now realize this is putting unwanted oxygen into the beer bottles. Will this mistake effect the taste of the beer or will it just shorten its shelf life?