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Wondering what everyone else does in this situation. Wort is boiling just fine and I see the hop addition i just added begin to collect on the pot around the surface of the boiling water...so I push it back in the boiling wort and repeat 10 mins later. I try to control the boil as best I can...

Just brewed my first all grain and...I botched it. ABV should be 12...I'm at 4.7 :( BUT I know why and will fix it next time I brew. This leads me to my question...has anyone placed the valve on the bottom of their HLT? I haven't seen this done and I'm wondering why. This would only be a 10...

I'm thinking about brewing an Apple Pie Porter 12A (the recipe in BeerSmith 2.2) but I'm new to all grain (still making the mash tun) and I'm not sure when to add the secondary ingredient of Apple Butter. The way I understand it, I am to add it when a rack it to the secondary. I'm not sure how...

"As long as the stuff fits in the garage and I can park in the garage, I don't care what you do." That's all the wife needed to say when I mentioned turning our 8x10 tool shed into a homebrewing shed. Luckily, I had all the materials around the house and took 2 days off of work to help kick...

I have brewed 3 kits so far and the FG had been consistently higher than it should be. I'm only off by a few (ex. FG should be around 15 but it usually finishes around 18 or so). This, in turn causes the ABV to be lower than desired. OG is usually on point and temp is between 68-72 degrees. I...

Made this a few days ago. Plan to use it for drying and holding my sanitized bottles while bottling. Holds 80 bottles and has room to grow!

First time brewer here... I'm about to bottle my first batch (Irish Stout) and I want to make sure I don't get any sediment from the bottom of the fermentation bucket. I was wondering if utilizing a coffee filter to make sure no nasties get into my bottling bucket (and in turn the bottles) was a...