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Yeah, in my short recent research, on a small scale, it seems I'm getting into at least the $35-45 range for ingredients for recipes I have from a couple books I have on the subject (3 from Papazian, Secrets of the Master Brewers, and a couple others). I see Austin Homebrew has these special...

Greetings. I'm getting back into homebrewing after some attempts over the last several years with variable levels of success. I hoped to brew a kit from a local HBS yesterday which I'm now planning on brewing tonight. Next, I have new grains and liquid yeast I overbought last week which...

Thanks, folks. Very helpful and quick information. I'm trying to get back into brewing after a hiatus, and am brewing a 5 gallon recipe today from a local homebrew store. I have 6.5 and 5 gallon carboys. I think I'll put this recipe in the 6.5 gallon carboy and then perhaps scale down a...

Can you ferment, say, a 2.5 gallon batch in a 5 gallon glass carboy? Is that too much empty space?

I ordered from Homebrew Adventures on Monday morning via homebrew.com. I'm in NJ and they're in NC, I think (I wanted to order from someone at least close to where I live). They shipped on Tuesday afternoon and I got the stuff this morning. Not bad! I want to try the free shipping from...

Some updates.... I took a closer look at things and it seems everything is packed so nicely that it's hard to throw anything out. This was the High Sierra Pale Ale kit from homebrew.com. Doing a little poking, I read somewhere about DME lasting for about a year before it starts to degrade...

Many thanks! Meanwhile, I may pick up some Star San after doing some reading on the topic. This is a great forum!

Greetings. I think I last brewed a batch about 2 years ago. I had also purchased a kit from homebrew.com at the time which I never got around to brewing. I assume the grains are now stale and not use-able. Is that right? How about the hop pellets? And the DME? All of that is nicely...

Hi, everyone. This is probably a ridiculous question, but when we say "bottle bombs," do we mean there's so much pressure in the bottle that the glass cracks and, oh crap, there's beer on the floor and in the closet. Or, do we mean "everyone run and dive into a corner! those bottles over...

Awesome. I'm probably 10-15 minutes away. Looks like a trippy-trip is in order for me this weekend :)

I think those are the same thing. Different brand, but same idea. I was thinking of bottle priming after some stuff I read on the web and some podcasts I'd heard. The basic ideas are you want to minimize the amount of times you move your beer around (to minimize aeration and chance of...

Hi, all. Thought I'd pop in and give an unsolicited update since you've helped me so much already with my beginner questions. I brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale using the two-step method from BYO magazine a few weeks ago. Went about 2 weeks in the primary. It fermented like crazy for the first...

Oh absolutely. I've been thinking of it as some folks challenging conventional wisdom. Also, I should have noted I read those books probably 7/8 years ago. I've been skimming them a lot the last month plus reading some on the Net plus talking with fine folks such as yourself. It's been great...

Yes, I've read two Papazian books (his first plus the Homebrewer's Companion) plus I have a couple recipe books (Homebrewer's Gold by Papazian and this odd assortment of submitted recipe book (has about 200 recipes)). I've also paged through Secrets of the Master Brewers, which has some...

If I were to follow the regular priming sugar and "bottling bucket" idea, what should I do? First, I have no bottling bucket, but was thinking of trying to bottle right from a carboy or pot using an autosiphon and bottling wand (I posted about this a while back). The advice I was given was to...

I've been listening to many podcasts from basicbrewingradio.com (I think that's the url...or basicbrewing.com and choosing radio?), and am in the middle of one with I think the founder of WYeast. I just listened to a part where he advocates simply making sure you complete fermentation in your...

This is probably bad advice, but I have a wussy electric stove that can't handle full boils, and can't have a burner on my balcony at my apartment, but I wanted to do a full boil. So I just brewed a Belgian Blonde using this "two-step" method I saw in BYO. Basically, do two 3 gallon boils...

Thanks, everyone. I'll check again when I get home tonight.

Greetings. My Belgian Blonde, which looks more like a Belgian Brunette, has been in the primary fermenter for a week and a day now. It bubbled like mad for several days, and is now down to maybe once every 20 seconds. I want to move this to a secondary fermenter at some point since there's...

Hey, dudes. How well do the ingredients hold up when shipped, say, across country from California or Texas to, say, NJ. During, say, this time of year? I guess I'm wondering about the yeast. I have a local homebrew store which is about a 45 minute drive from me. I'm wondering if I should...