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The smell is 50% why I home brew! I'm also 50% thirsty.

No boil-over although it was close the majority of the time. Well, I'll chalk it up to practice then, I already added the yeast. I'm terrible at chemistry admittedly, I don't know why I didn't realize that the end goal is 1000ml of wort. Thanks for the help.

fixed.. i meant 1000ml of water

Hello brewers! I'm in the process of making a yeast starter. I boiled 1000ml of water and 100g of DME, however I only ended up with about 400ml of wort after a 15 min boil. Is this normal? I don't have a refractometer and if I take a reading with my hydrometer there will not be much left...

Heineken or Corona

Quick question- is lowering the bitterness of a recipe as simple as reducing the amount of the first hop addition or is there more to it? Thanks!

The goal here is to minimize space required and to have a continuous supply of keg'd home-brew. I brew 5 gallon batches. I'm planning on primary fermentation only, for about a month long. I just purchased 2x2.5 gallon kegs (so I can fit 1 in my refrigerator). I'm thinking I may brew a...

Plastic tub with water and frozen water bottles works great for me.

Sure, why not...

I'm planning on trying AG for my 3rd batch. My first 2 batches aren't even ready yet... but I like to test myself.

Any lager

This is only my second brew so I'm by no means recommending anything . I personally can't recall reading any reason to do a secondary so I'm just trying to minimize any possibility of infection thus opting out on the secondary. FWIW I will not be doing a cold crash either, only because I...

I'm doing this same kit now. Used US-05 and not doing a secondary, I'll post in a month or so if nobody else chimes in.

I'm getting ready to bottle my first batch. My kit came with a plastic bucket and a 5 gallon glass carboy. I didn't do a secondary so I can't bottle from the primary bucket. I'm trying to decide if I should just go buy a second bucket for bottling. They're cheap enough that if they make my...