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Hey, I've gone with no-chill / hot-cubing in recent brews and aiming to further simplify my brew day. Rather than trading off whirlpool / trub removal vs peak sanitation, I keep the wort on a rolling boil whilst pumping it to the hot cube (and then turning off the heating element before pumping...

Hey, just finished fermenting a hefe at around 17 deg C. All in primary. It's remarkably clear. Should I give it a bit of a wiggle to encourage the yeast to re-suspend before I bottle it? I haven't opened the fermenter since i pitched and so can't comment on taste or FG. The only potential...

I like to bottle a few beers from each batch and keg the rest. Using carbonation drops is intuitively the easiest method ... but would like to know how to minimise the infection risk. Do you give each drop a starsan spray? Fingers too? How do you know the carbonation drops are sanitary? I...

I racked an all grain porter into secondary today. OG was 1.069. Primary finished at 1.042. Way too high, right? 4.5 days at 18degC, fermentation started within 4 hours. Aeration good - I had only 6 litres in a 23 litre glass Carboy - so a vigorous 2 min shake gave it good aeration. Note that...