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Wish I had more of the screw top bottles, but beer has been in the one I do have for almost a month. Soon it will be time to try it. Glad you successfully disposed of the explosive bottles, that's my only fear about brewing.

Has anyone had any success with re-using old bottles? I picked up an interesting one this weekend and I'm bottling today, I soaked it over night and cleaned it out pretty well, any reason why I shouldn't use it? The bottle says Scarboro & Whitby Breweries and the bottle has 1942 embossed on...

I have to admit I just moved my last batch into a secondary a couple of days ago. Reading this has been very interesting and hopefully will save me some effort and some beer, but brings me to one question: If I have a very large carboy (on the order of 12 gallons) and I only use a primary...

I'm now working on the same decision, what did you end up choosing? I'm leaning towards Polware atm.

Ahh, so the recipes on this site assume you account for loss during boiling and boil the full amount you want to ferment?

I'm trying to brew my 3rd batch which will be my first non-kit batch so I've been looking at a lot of the recipes on this site for an extract recipe I can try. The question I have is, how much water should I use for each of the steps? I'd like to make this recipe...

I see, makes complete sense. I guess I'll wait till I move up to 10 gallons and try it as a primary as you've suggested. Thanks again!

I cleaned it out this past weekend (it had been sitting in an attic for 25 years) and it was pretty unwieldy with a couple gallons in it. I guess it goes back into storage until I move up to larger batches. What would you think would be the minimum batch size to try if I use it as a secondary...

Thanks for the help, I was a little afraid I'd have to brew 10 gallons or so before I could use it. You're completely right about the weight, it's got to be around 25 lbs empty...

I recently acquired a large glass carboy, which was originally used for science then used for wine making about 30 years ago. It's very similar to the one in this link and I think it holds around 15 gallons (http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=3454224&pfx=). My question...