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Will opening the bucket contaminate the beer?

Is there a way to check the gravity without removing the bucket lid? What is the best way from a bucket and a carboy? Thanks

Thank you all happy Thanksgiving

I am brewing my first non kit beer. It is a pumpkin ale and I purchased all.fresh ingredients except for the pumpkin and malt extract. I pitched my yeast at about 65degrees and put the bucket on a copper tun. Normally my batches start kicking within 6 hours and bubble like mad for 15. This batch...

36 hours into my new batch after watching training movies by Master Brewer Griz from San Francisco and I have very slow bubbling, about 30 bpm. I am confident this will be good stuff. I found a recipe and purchased FRESH ingredients instead of a kit. (Good bye kits forever) my starting sg on a...

I dumped it and started a new batch after watching a few of Griz's seminars from san francisco brewcraft. I now have a pumpkin ale going and its the first time the fermenting hasnt started within 12 hours. Previously my fermenting would be active starting at 12 hours and stop rigorous bubbling...

Thanks Tipsy i'll check it out. I'm about 50-60' above sea level.

Sorry, I'm new at this. It's an Irish stout by monster brew. I added 2 cups of oatmeal during the mash. Bobs red mill Scottish oatmeal. Other than that I followed the directions. Currently it smells wonderful and I intended on checking the sg on Saturday which will be one week into the ferment I...

I am doing kit beers and I just did a batch and forgot to cook it because I had to pick up someone. All I did was steep the grains for an hour and dissolve the hops etc. When I came back I forgot to fire back up and cook so I just threw the stuff in the fermenter and added yeast. Should I toss...

I am doing kit beers and I just did a batch and forgot to cook it because I had to pick up someone. All I did was steep the grains for an hour and dissolve the hops etc. When I came back I forgot to fire back up and cook so I just threw the stuff in the fermenter and added yeast. Should I toss...

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When I brew with kit beer it overcarbonates. I live in San Francisco and not sure if climate plays a part. What do I so? If less sugar, half? 3/4? Thanks

Is it ok to bottle beer in 1 litre plastic bottles for Xmas gifting? Thanks

They aren't screw tops they just have a double barn on the neck where the capper grabs causing it to slip

Thank You. They have a double ring at the top.

I have been saving bottles to use for my homebrew and today when bottling discovered my capper doesn't work on green Stella bottles. Is there a special bottle capper for these bottles as I have a butt load of them and I already peeled the labels etc.? Thanks:mad:

After the mash my sg was 1.090 the ferment process was high gear for about 20 hours then slowed to a bubble a minute or so and I left it in the fermenter for about a month then checked sg nada. Bottled it, left it 3 weeks then started drinking. Tastes good and gives a pretty strong buzz no...

Meant to say make my wort. It's beer

Yes the reading is no longer within any.of the readable area. It's to the negative side of the lines

Specific gravity not sh