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My wife has started drinking kombucha and the guy she gets them from bottles in reg. beer bottles that I would use for my homebrewing/beer. Are the bottles safe to reuse for beer? Is there a chance for cross contamination assuming that I sterilize and sanitize my bottles correctly?

I am wondering if anyone else has plugged Calagione's recipes into BrewersFriend or BeerSmith and got really different numbers than the author is putting out there? Lou

I have a recipe that I inputted into BS and also into BF. Keeping all of the data the same, the OG, IBUs, ABV all come out differently. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs to know which is correct or what am I doing wrong? Thanks - Lou

I have a question about OG. We follow a recipe exactly and many times will miss out OG by 10-30 pts. For example, I plug a recipe into Beersmith, it says OG should be around 1064. We hit 1050. (The orig. recipe said it should be around 1074-from Sam C. book Extreme Brewing, but from what I...

I have a lager in the refrigerator. This beer has been through a lot. We had a temp control thermostat on the fridge, but the fridge is outside in a pool house a my brew partner's house. The temp crashed in December and the fridge dropped really low. We moved it inside to an attic space and...

We are making our first melomel. I want to know if I am supposed to squeeze the liquid out of the fruit when I am racking the mead? Thanks Lou