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Hello, I'm just getting back into brewing again. Its very difficult with 3 kids and a wife ha. I generally brew 1 gallon all grain or extract batches. Today was a 1 gallon biab. I used 2 lbs of pilsner and ariana hops.i used distilled water and purchased my brewing water minerals from Waters...

I brewed a DIPA on 6/11 and had an og of 1.072 and checked the gravity today and it's 1.034. I brewed this last minute and I usually oxygenate with pure oxygen and a stainless steel stone but I barely had any left. I shook it as much as I could and put a pindrop of vegetable oil in the wort...

Hello, today was the second time I brewed a extract kit and when I topped my fermenting bucket and the SG was off a lot. I brewed a bsg dark saison today that was supposed to have a SG of 1.060 and it when I took the reading it was 1.034. The kit came with 2 x 3.3lb Cans of pilsen lme and 1lb of...

Has anyone ever used this to sweeten their cider? I bought some the other day, backsweetened, and bottled yesterday with the carbonation drops. I noticed after I finished on the Pure Via Stevia box, they add dextrose to it. Will this cause bottle bombs? http://purevia.com/Purevia/PureVia.aspx

Hello, I have had this issue once before and am curious what this stuff is. I always rinse it my bottles after I pour out the beer and immediately place them on my bottle tree. Before I bottle my beer, I usually only sanitize them and not use 5 star pbw unless I can visually see an issue like...

I have a few yeast related questions. I want to get into harvesting yeast from my 5 gallon batches and I have watched many videos on how to do so. Usually, they split up the slurry into 4 or 5 smaller mason jars and I was curious how to figure out how much slurry you would need for a starter for...

I wanted to purchase a cream ale kit but only wanted to make a 1 gallon batch because I can never seem to make a batch of beer my girlfriend likes. So I figured why not make a cream ale. I looked at some recipes and kits and quite a few only called for light dme. I had some light dme on hand and...

I'm curious , what's the best way to use canned pumpkin when brewing an extract pumpkin ale ? I'm using the Pocahontas pumpkin pleaser recipe. I read that boiling will cause haze and possibly an infection.

I have a bunch of bottles that need to be cleaned, my question is how long can I use a 5 gallon buckets worth of 5 star pbw if I soak the bottles in it to clean and get the labels off of the bottles.

I brewed Northern Brewers Cream Ale on 7/11 and bottled 7/25. I heated up the water/suger mix as directed and put that into my bottling bucket and and siphoned my beer into it afterwards. My issue is that the carbonation on every beer is different. I had some that were perfectly carbonated or...

I have ingredients for a 1 gallon batch and I purchased a smack pack of liquid yeast for a 5 gallon batch and I was curious if I could just use 1/5 of that and it would be enough yeast Thanks.

I was curious if fermenting a 1 gallon batch, or even a 3 gallon batch, in a 5 gallon carboy or 6.5 gallon bucket will cause issues due to the extra oxygen and headspace. Thanks.

Hello, I was wondering if some people can point me in the right direction. I was looking to do a 1 gallon SHaME brew because I will have 2 lbs of my tons extra light DME and figured that should be plenty. I think I saw 1.5 lbs of dme per gallon somewhere. Basically I'm looking for advice on hop...

Hello everyone, my name is Aaron and I'm somewhat of a beginner to brewing. I have brewed about 5 batches of kits in the past, but it has been about 3 years since I brewed my last batch, a pumpkin ale that had wayyy too much carbonation :o. I just brewed a batch of Northern Brewers Cream Ale...