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This was our first All Grain batch and the mash rest was a complete failure. The jacket I had my buddies construct was a bust, but have since fixed it. This batch has had reading of 1.026 for the past two weeks from my refractometer. I know there is a formula to get a more accurate reading will...

So next time leave the flask open? I just built a stir plate to set it on would you recommend leaving it open for the whole 24hr process?

My yeast starter blew over and there is sediment in the airlock is that yeast and should I pitch it?

I made a yeast starter about 3 days ago anticipating a brew day on Sunday, well we had one of the biggest blizzards my city has seen in decades and the brew day was canceled. We are regrouping next Sunday (about a week) is there any hope for the starter or should I just start anew?

Person could go mad listening to do a secondary or not. I'm just interested in the process and will continue to experiment

Recommendation to drop the gravity or should I just ditch the batch? A whole slew of problems were picked out in the first batch and an bad yeast pitch was one of them, about to brew our third tomorrow and much more informed

I could most likely. Measured the gravity at 1.026 again beer doesn't taste horribly. I'll be rolling with a secondary for all my batches will be more cautious from here on out though

Hahaha yea I don't know why I call it that but it's a hydrometer I'm a goob but yea the air pressure in my carboy is all clear lol but my hydrometer is junk

Our barometer has a problem staying level because of a piece of plastic at the bottom so it wasn't operator error I've used one before that could stay level and it was fine. So racking it to early have ruined anything? It's our first batch and we have made a number of improvements to our system...

We gad a cheap barometer when we first brewed and couldn't get a good O.G, we purchased a refractometer and the last ready we had was 10.26

Yea we had planned on bottling yesterday but I decided to hold off until I looked into it. We primaried for 2 weeks and the secondary is going on 2 weeks as well should I let it settle before bottling?

Brewed our first batch and racked it into a secondary carboy, it's been two weeks yesterday and the was layers of sediment in the carboy should I give it more time to settle before bottling? I'll try and attach a pic though its not a good one

So my friends and I brewed our second batch a week from yesterday. I checked the batch and it had some reddish foam on the krauzen (spelled it wrong I know) I'm assuming its infected. Here are my sanitation steps let me know if i can improve on them. because a snow storm we weren't as vigorous...

My friends and I are looking for a cheap and effective (<key word) way to aerate our worth he brought up using a brewer modified tire pump for bikes. Any thoughts or suggestions?

My friends and I gave been collecting bottles to shave the cost of brewing. We have a normal caper that works great for all bottles but twist caps. Can I cap them like regular or is there a special cap or capper I need?

My friends and I are looking into creating a false bottom as cost effectively as possible. My buddy works at a hardware store and had some brewers come in and buy stainless steel braided hoses but never heard how well they worked. This method would be cheaper I'm just worried about the mash out...

I'm new to brewing and in order to save money I was considering using food grade plastic buckets to ferment during the primary and transferring it to glass carboys for the secondary. I have been told that plastic buckets even food grade can allow amounts of oxygen if fermented for over a week...

hello im looking to brew with about 21.5 pounds of malt how much water should I mash-in with. what is a good equation to figure this out as well what amount of water should I use to sparge? Thank you

I'm using all American hops, Columbus for bittering cascade for aroma was going to try for amirilo for late addition maybe dry hop with Columbus I'm using I believe yp-0001 California ale (may have butchered the name and don't have the recipe in front of me) and it will be a 10 gallon batch

I have not but am in need for some good literature. I watch a couple of his video and admire his genius. Good looming out