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what is your brew process like? Do you boil a concentrated wort and top off with water to get 5 gallons? If so, do you preboil your top off water. How have you been cleaning your plastic fermenters? Make sure you are not using a sponge with the rough side to clean with - it can make deep...

I have been home brewing since Feb/March 2006. I started all grain about 8 months ago and the first all grain recipe was a Mirror pond clone pale ale. Every since I drank that batch I have tried to make it every other batch of beer. Lets just say that in 4 or 5 years of trying to find the...

Jamil also recommends that if you are putting wort on top of an existing yeast cake that you should make sure the yeast cake fermented a beer that was a lower starting gravity than what you are making. For instance you should not use a cake from a beer with a OG of 1.065 if you are making a...

I have been a homebrewer for a year and half now and I have used dry yeast twice. I have a strong feeling though that I will become a dry yeast convert. I mail ordered my ingredients for the first time from Northern Brewer and I elected to get a pack of US-56 because I guessed it would travel...