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Can I ask how it turned out? (If you've had a chance to try it yet, that is)

So, I know that you need to adjust your use of hops if you are doing a full boil vs a partial boil, but I have yet to find any thread, any website, anything to help me in actually determining how to adjust the amount of hops. Please help

So, this is going to be my next brew regardless of the answer, but any thoughts of adding coriander seed? I have no doubt its amazing without it, but I know that a lot of tripels have coriander seed so just wondering

And also, I'm an extract brewer so scaling may be harder

Just a quick addendum, I did just now find a whole bunch of threads for smaller sized batches so I guess I have heard of people doing this haha. Suggestions and comments still very much appreciated though

So I really love variety when it comes to anything, especially beer. Also, 5 gallon batches are just huge. I mean sure, you can give a lot of it away, but still, I want to move onto my next batch, but not until I'm almost done with my current batch's bottles. The only problem is I haven't...

My OG was 1.049 with 4 gallons of wort. I pitched a dry yeast, but I forgot the name because I was using a kit since its my first brew. The temp range is 64-70 though and the temp is 64F. And cool. Good to know that it could just take a little longer. Thanks for the help!

Hi, So I've boiled and pitched my first batch of beer and after 24hrs, I haven't seen any action from the airlock. Should I shake it around to try and aerate it? :mug:

Cool. Makes sense

Thanks for the help guys. The OG was normal so looks like I'll just have 4 gallons. Quick question though: If I start out with say 6 gallons of water and it boils down to 5, won't that make my OG lower than where you want it?

Hi, I just finished my first brew. Things went well, kind of. At least I know what I need to do for the next one haha. Anyway, I started boiling with a full 5 gallons, but when I siphoned into the fermenter, I found that I had a little over 4 (boiling off water and what not). Do I add enough...

Hey, So what do you guys use to strain the hops/grain out of your wort?

Do you need to sanitize your brewpot before you boil? It seems like that would be just sanitizing it twice since you'd boil the germs away. I ask because I'm wondering if a stainless steel brewpot is worth the price. From what I can glean for what I've read, the only real upside to SS is the...

Wow, thanks for the advice everybody. Sounds like I have a decent amount reading and searching to do, but also sounds like it'll be worth it!

So I think I want to start home brewing, sounds like a fun hobby, but I don't want to make crappy beer and it seems the brewing systems are either like 100 bucks or 2000. Is there a middle ground or can you make quality beer in cheap systems?