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I was reading that a yeast starter should be made 18-24 hours in advance. I'm brewing on Saturday and will not have time tomorrow to do it. So I was hoping I could do the starter tonight and use it Saturday. Will that cause any problems? Another reason I want to do it tonight is that I...

I am planning on brewing EdWort's Bavarian Hefeweizen this weekend. According to his instructions - he said that he recommends fermenting at 68 degrees. My basement is 70 degrees. I do have a refrigerator with an external temperature controller for it. So I was thinking of firing up the...

Thanks for the response. The 2 calculators that I checked (http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator and http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html) both take as input the temperature. I actually tried it again specifying the temperature of 68 (temp of my basement) -...

I have a Maibock that has been lagering for about 2-3 months. I'm ready to bottle it soon. The instructions on the kit that I used (from RiteBrew.com) says to use 4.3 oz table sugar. Several online calculators are saying that if the temp is 35 to use between 2.1-2.5 oz of table sugar. The...

I'm planning on making a double batch using this recipe. This will only be my 2nd all-grain batch. So if I simply double the grains and hops, When I enter the recipe in Beersmith, should I set the "Batch Size" to 11 gallons (since the original recipe was for 5.5 gallons)? Or should I...

So yeah - you guys are right. This morning when I checked on it I noticed some decent activity in the airlock. Still not quite up to the level of the other fermenter with the safale 05 yeast in it - but I'm definitely relieved to see it bubbling. Thanks!

Yesterday after pitching the yeast and sealing up the lid on the fermenter, I realized I did not get a hydrometer reading. So I got my beer thief, rinsed it off well and then sprayed it with a spray bottle I prepared with diluted five star sanitizer (iodine based). I broke my batch up into...

So during my first all-grain batch I was using a new plate chiller that we just bought. The plate chiller has barb fittings for half inch ID tubing. We were using half-inch Inside Diameter silicone tubing (that we purchased from morebeer.com). When we attached the hose to the barb...

I just completed my first all-grain batch and I have lots of questions about things that just didn't quite go as expected. Rather than list all questions in a single thread - I thought I'd just open a thread for each question. First thing that happened was during the sparge/runoff. I was...

I got a recipe that calls for adding hops at 0 minutes. From that I've been reading about this flameout addition - it seems mostly to be done with immersion chillers which take a fair amount of time. If I plan on using a plate chiller - does it even make sense doing the flameout addition...

TopherM - Thanks for the insight on the Kolsch. I found this recipe under the following link https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f71/orange-kolsch-ag-ex-30918/ and it looks like BierMuncher was purposely avoiding the Kolsch Yeast. Since I'm looking for a relatively quick turnaround time on the...

Ok - so I guess the software was the missing piece of the puzzle. That makes sense. I'll look into some of the software to see of that fills in what I'm missing Thanks!

I am in the process of geting all my equipment ready for my first All-Grain batch. I found a recipe that I'm really interested in, it's an Orange Kolsch. So I've taken an all-grain brewing class my local homebrew store and I'm familiar with the process of mashing and sparging. My question...

So keeping the temperature constant with the lid closed is not essential? It's OK to lose some of that heat? I guess with the hotter water entering the tank - it probably doesn't make a huge difference in the water temp - is that right?

I am trying to get set-up for all-grain brewing and I just purchased a 70-QT Coleman Xtreme cooler to use as a Mash tun. A few weeks ago I took a class offered at my local Home Brew store. In the Mash Tun that they were using, they had a hole drilled through the top of the cooler that was...