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So a quick question on LME's and adding hops. If I plan to add hops, what kind should they be? Since the LME needs to only boil for 15 minutes or so, would I add a low AAU hops, or a higher content one? And if I do add a higher content one, would I boil the LME for 30 minutes or longer?

So in preperation for my first batch hopefully getting started Monday (fingers crossed), I have ran into a problem. How do you sanitize the 5 gallon carboys? Using a big bucket and just mixing together your sanitizer in there and cleaning it in the bucket?

So taking the advice you all gave, I am now rereading How To Brew, and this time taking notes through the whole book. I think that by doing this, I will gain a better understanding of the process and insight into the biology behind it (though I have come across Brew Science books that don't...

Yeah, now that I re-read it, it makes more sense to me. I was still stuck in mead making mode hah.

It seems to me, reading through Palmer's "How To Brew" that most of the steps he writes in are unnecessary. I can understand boiling the water to sanitize it, but boiling the wort for so long and all these other boilings seem a bit unnecessary. Most brewing materials I have read seem to use a...

Greetings from here in Raleigh. I'm a college student looking to get into brewing beer after making a few batches of mead. Need a little more hands on product, and one that takes a little less time. I'll probably end up having beer and mead going at the same times anyways, for good rotation...