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Two quick questions that may or may not be related: First, all three brews if have done have had a veeeery mild fermentation. I have done a coopers ale, a northern brewer irish red, and a brewers best irish stout and I have never gotten more than an inch of krausen and the bubbling out the...

Do it however you want to do it. It all depends on what you want to learn about. If you want to get to know hops, then just change the hops. If you want to know malts, then change the grains. Really you could probably change both and tease apart what is different because of hops vs what is...

That would be ideal, but I don't have the space or money for that, so I'll make due with swamp coolers.

I just started my first brew 2 weekends ago having no idea what I was doing. Searching around this site and posting about 565456402654 questions helps a lot. I did get the Palmer book and am reading through it, but mostly just looking around here and googling things. There are also several...

Yea, I think that may be what I end up doing. I think I'm just going to go for this. The point is to see the characteristics, not make good beer. So I think I will just get a few pounds of 3 malts and 2 different hops and not worry about making a good recipe at this point. Just run the...

Mind sharing your recipe? Everything I try converting down to that size is calling for around .05 oz of hops. Did you use that little?

I just downloaded the trial version and have been messing with it. Discovering that I may be in a bit over my head at this point so I may put this project off for a few weeks. Thanks a lot for offering. Also discovering the reason not to do batches this small: tiny amounts of hops for each...

I don't have any tab a draft bottles. I was just thinking the 1 gallon jugs because they are cheap. I don't want a lot from each batch, this is more about seeing what the ingredients contribute than making beer I want to drink lots of. I am also wondering about making my own recipes. I know...

Recently read about doing SMaSH brews and I am interested in trying them out. I was planning on doing several in some 1 gallon growlers I have sitting around to get a feel for what the different malts and hops bring to the table. However, when I went to look for recipes all I was finding were...

I think I am going to try out the swamp coolers described above, but I am trying to decide how many I will need. If I can get away with only having to cool some of the fermenters then that will save me a lot of floor space and freezer space for ice. I assume the temperature control for a...

As a follow up I was wondering if the temperature control is more important at some times than others? If I had 3 fermenters going all at different stages would it be more important for the one in active fermentation to be cooled and the one that is just aging for a couple of weeks to be a...

Yea, that will be plenty. Even a 4 gallon (16 liter, your math was right on) would have been fine, but I didn't plan ahead when I bought that pot. Oh well, it was only $8 buying a new one tomorrow.

There are only like 3 more hours on it, but this is a steal http://www.groupon.com/deals/midwest-homebrewing-springfield-mo?post_purchase=true I am grabbing it just for the buckets and brew kits.

That is pretty cool, pretty pricey though.

Personally I think the malt and hops smell great. I'm only on my second brew so that may depend on what you are brewing, but my problem is more that I like the smell too much and keep opening my lager to bask in that delicious aroma. I just got that deluxe kit a few days ago and I like it...

Alright, looks like a swamp cooler is the way to go here. Now if only Indiana summers didn't have 99% humidity all the time the swamp cooler would be even more effective as the temperature went up! How much ice/how many water bottles do you guys have to use to keep these cold? If I can I'll...

I was actually looking at something like this http://www.bayareamashers.org/gadgets/Jim%27s%20minimalist%20fermentation%20chiller.pdf which is a simpler version of the Son of Fermentation Chiller, but the swamp chiller might be even easier/cheaper. Only problem with it is that it can't warm...

Hey everybody, I was wondering what would be a good way to keep my fermenters cool. I don't really want to have to try to keep my apartment at 65 degrees all summer, so what would be a more effective way to keep my fermentation buckets cool? Needs to be relatively cheap and small since I am a...

Weeeeellll, this wasn't a little splatter. It was a pretty huge boil over since I didn't know any better. Have quite a bit under my big burner on my stove. But I assume elbow grease and hot water it is.

So I have some wort spills that have dried up from my last brew and I was wondering what people thought the best way to clean them up would be? I would assume hot water and elbow grease, but I wondered if anybody had a better way.