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Hey! I just bottled my first brew. I'm so excited!! One of the things I was wondering as I was bottling: what if I bottled it before the brew reached final gravity? Would it be bad? What would that do?

This doesn't affect the flavor?

ok, but...what are the fermentables. I'm new at this. Haven't brewed my first batch yet. Still collecting tools and reading books:)

Yeah, I saw a documentary--how beer saved the world--about Pasteur and the beer (NOT milk:) and the doctors and all that:) very interesting:) I know that beer is different in many ways from long ago--my understanding is that it was, among other things, less alcoholic back in the day when it was...

I'm just learning about this--I'm new to home brewing. Something has been on my mind for a while and I can't figure this out: if cleaning and sanitizing is so important to brewing, how is it that people have been successfully brewing beer for thousands of years? They didn't have the means to...

Hi! I'm a beginner, never brewed before. I'm going to start brewing with extracts because that seems to be the usual advice, but I'm already thinking to the future and all-grain brewing. I was wondering: what are the differences (in process) between all grain and extract, and what is the special...

I have lots of that--thanks:) and I learned a special kind of patience with the sourdough bread, actually. It took me a year to make my first really successful loaf of sourdough bread. There's a learning curve--getting the starter going, determining if you have a live starter or a dud, figuring...

And I suppose if it is aluminum that's bad, right?

I'm new to brewing and have not yet started my first batch. I'm just finishing collecting the materials I need to get started. I have most of the supplies I need at this point, but I haven't bought a brew pot. We have a huge stainless steel pot at home already, but I have some concerns about...

Hi everybody! I'm new to this forum and new to brewing. Actually, I became interested in beer brewing about 8 months ago, after several years of baking my own bread. After going through the fermenting process bread and maintaining a starter for my sourdough, I realized that fermenting things is...