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This may seem sacrilegious, but I've found that the White Labs tubes are pitcahable in 5g of wort, and I've pitched smack packs right into 5g of wort too and they both attenuated just fine. I honestly prefer dry yeast and only use liquid if I really need to tweak a beer with a liquid strain. In...

Maris Otter is a two row malt, and it is considered a "premium" variety. Besides the price, I don't really know how much difference you'll see by using it over "regular" two row or pale malt. It's a winter variety of two row barley... Maris Otter is preferred by home/craft brewers, and really...

I recently brewed for the first time in about a year and it's time to bottle... now I've got my new house and a second hand me down fridge that's in the basement housing extra food, and of course, I'm dreading the bottling day and thinking it's time to put that 'fridge to use... I've looked at...

I dont see why a 5 gallon bucket of ice water won't work... it's worked fine for me in the past. I just got a $10 submersible aquarium pump, ran water through my IC and as soon as the water being discharged from the chiller wasn't scolding, i placed the hose back into the ice water a just...

How else do you seal a plastic bottle? You screw the cap on! Green bottles shouldnt be a problem... a majority of plastic water bottles are transparent, so I don't see any problems with this one.

Just some re-assurance... you're fine! When racking to secondary, you're bound to rouse up a little yeast, so you may be seeing some additional fermentation, or just more Co2 coming out of solution. Nothing to worry about! Let it sit for another week or two then bottle/keg away!

It's possible, yes, but not recommended. I would also recommend a bottling bucket over bottling right from the secondary (or primary...). When you siphon from your fermentation vessel onto your priming solution, the swirling action will evenly mix your beer with sugar water, ensuring a more or...

Just to reinforce the other posts... leave it! 3-4 weeks is a normal primary time for me, then into bottles. While the vigorous part of your fermentation is likely over, the yeast is still working. The krausen should drop within a week or so, and the beer will start to clear, give 'er time...

Just dump it all, the hops will settle in the trub while in primary.

I'm getting back into brewing after a year in my new home and I'm going back to extract w/ specialty grains for the time being... also showing a friend how to home brew so, I figured it'll help me get re-acquainted with brewing while being easy for said friend to follow. Doing an American Wheat...

Soda bottles work fine, just keep em clean and make sure the caps don't mold over between uses since you'll be re-using those too. Another good thing using plastic is you can just give a bottle a quick squeeze to check it's progress as it carbonates rather than opening a bottle or two week...

I've not made a beer that big yet, but even after that amount of time in the secondary, there should still be plenty of viable yeast in suspension that will carb that beer. I'd say skip the yeast at bottling unless you have filtered the beer, added gelatin or crash cooled it. Note that it will...

I can only assume that every "How to make a starter" discussion always insists on a 1.040 wort because anything higher is probably unnecessary, but I am fairly confident that a 1.050 starter would make beer that is just as good.

I've been brewing for a while, but I'm still learning patience. Brewing more is a great way to curb the desire to try some of my most recent batch and honestly, drinking green beer really isn't worth the worry it causes. When drinking green beer, I've tasted everything from over bittered beer...

It sounds like you pulled out a lot of unfermentables during your mash. US-05 is quick to reach full attenuation and after 4 days, unless it's fermenting rather cool, I'd say it's just about done. Give it a full week and check it again, it may drop a few more points, and if it doesn't, you can...

If the man wants to make a Miller Lite clone so be it! Let him brew what he wants to brew without question... I'm not sure how you would really brew a lite beer as an extract batch, but I imagine you could approximate like this: 4-6# of the lightest extract you can get .25# Flaked Rice .25#...

Another silly questions as I try not to think about my wedding on Sunday... I use a 5 gallon round "Victory" cooler as my mashtun with a small length of copper attached to a SS braid and I drain the wort using a vinyl tube. I haven't replaced any of these parts since I've starting using it...

Hi, I'm in the process of moving my operation to the basement and I'm getting closer to purchsing a natural gas burner, but the burners I have found don't appear to have any sort of regulator. For those of you that use such burners, how do you control intensity of the flame? I don't want to...

I don't do secondaries... so yeah.

So I was thinking about a little bottling experiment for no apparent reason tonight... Has anyone bottled right from the primary? I was thinking about adding my priming sugar to the full carboy, attaching a bottling wand and using the autosiphon to bottle directly from the carboy. I know...