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I've been wanting to pull the trigger and switch to all-grain, but have decided to take the intermittent and cheaper (for now) step of partial mashing. I wanted to convert a recipe that I brewed using extract but was originally an all grain recipe. I used Beersmith to convert the original...

I'm fixing to begin buying my hops in 4oz quantities online where they are much cheaper/oz. My concern is storing these puppies since I'll probably only use 1-2oz per recipe. A couple of questions: 1) These hops are frozen at the vendor's location (Farmhouse Brewing), then shipped and I...

I've been looking for recipe kits but always hate paying the $8-$10 for shipping. I noticed on the Northern Brewer website that they have the instructions for each kit, including the ingredients posted for you to download for free. Does anyone know if this document will match the recipe...

I've read all sorts of things regarding water quality. Now that I'm ready to make the move to all grain, I've read that the RO water I've been using for extract brewing will not work very well. I'd hate getting ahead of myself by messing with water chemistry being that I'm still pretty new to...

Today, I threw away half of my beer in anger. Siphoning is always an issue for me. I had a Pale Ale that had been in the secondary for 3 weeks and dry hopping for another week that I was about to bottle. On my transfer to the bottling bucket, i noticed a whole bunch of bubbles in the line. I...

OK, so I started brewing a few months ago. I'm 5 batches in, 2 one gallon all grains and 3 extract brews. My latest is fermenting in my brand spanking new fermenting chamber, which I'm really pumped about. Can't wait to see what a properly fermented beer tastes like. At any rate, the SWMBO...

1.) I just stepped up to 5 gallon batches from 1 Gallon. I'm concerned about cooling the wort on bigger batches. Guys at the LHBS said since i'm still doing extract brews i can add ice cold (clean) water post boil to top it off and cool it as well, along with the ice bath. I've also read that...

I while back I ran across a post someone made that included a real nice spreadsheet of chest freezer model numbers vs how many carboy/buckets/kegs each could theoretically hold based on dimensions. I've been looking for it like crazy all morning and cant' find that post :confused: . Can...