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+1 on Smash. Its a great cheap way to get your AG process down and learn about ingredients at the same time. Just look at what kinds of hops and malts are used in your favorite beers and start using them.

I follow some of those, you might want to look up, flying dog, saranac, bells, beer wars, brooklyn brewery. Thats all i can think of off the top of my head. Beer wars post quite a few neat articles. Also you can follow me: bheher

Just use 1/2 cup dme and 2 cups water or any ratio of 1:4. Its just a starter as long as your between 1.035 and 1.06 i think your ok... You could probably just taste it and if it taste ok your good to go.

Yeah the I think you have the wrong FG. But anyway your going to want to leave your beer in the primary until fermentation has stopped. This means pretty much no bubbles in the air lock. Dont add more yeast, if you fremented for 6 days you will be fine. Yes store the secondary in pretty much...

Hi guys I have been brewing for a little while and I am going to start using a brew in a bag method to brew some three gallon batches this weekend. I would like to use the three gallon batches to learn to tweak recipes ect. I am not sure if I should buy a three gallon carboy or not. I...

There are some charts on here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Malts_Chart https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Hop_varieties

During fermentation your beer is usually a couple degrees warmer then room temperature. And it probably wont completely go away but it could go down quite a bit.

So when using a large fermenter should you just let in sit in primary for an extra week if you dont have a smaller carboy to re-rack to?

Has any ever tried or does anyone think it would be an ok idea to bottle condition beer in a growler if you dip the top in wax to get a air tight seal? I have a ton of growlers and was just trying to think of something to do with them.

So I made something similar to this recipe. What is the benefit to keeping the beer in the primary for two weeks as it has finished fermenting after about 5 days.

Hi Guys! This is my first post here but I have gotten tons of info from the site so thanks! I made this recipe with help from the dogfish extract barleywine in their extreme beers book. I have brewed 3 all grain beers but still only get a 60% efficiency because I have changed this and that. So...

Is this 42 days of secondary fermentation in all in bottles? Is the beer bottled straight from the primary fermenter (no re rack)? Thanks!