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Okay, I brewed a batch and while it tastes great it is flat. I've replayed everything, the amount of priming sugar, amount and conditioning time are the exact same as previous batches and those were fine. I did begin to use a new sanitizer on bottling day 5 Star SANICLEAN. I retread the...

Has anyone brewed a batch with any peppers? If so how did you do it? When did you put the peppers in, Boil? Fermentation? How much did you use? Did you have to do anything to the peppers before you introduced them? Thanks, Matt

I brewed my first batch a few months back, a Pale Ale. I thought it came out pretty good for my first time. Out of the 48 beers I bottled 3 were gushers. Not sure what happened but as soon as I opened the bottle they overflowed the bottle, badly. The first homebrew I gave to my father-in-law...

My fermentation just started, a little less than 24 hours since the pitch. Is it okay to shake up/aerate the carboy after the fermentation has begun?

Just jumped into the home brew world. I have always been fascinated with brewing and my wife, she is amazing, bought me a home brew kit for my birthday. Just brewed my first batch yesterday and it is in the carboy in my hall closet. I checked it this morning and looks like not activity yet...

Just brewed my first batch and it was fun. I had a question abou the initial hydrometer readings. I showed 1.020, 5% Balling and 2.5% potential alcohol by volume. Did I brew a really weak beer? I know that the post-fermintation reading tells you the % alcohol but are these numbers too low or am...