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This is old hat for most of you, should be for me too, but I have some questions I need answers to. I've been brewing for around 3 years now and lately am discouraged with results of a brew I've done 5-6 times at least. It's a British Ale (BASS ALE clone) I purchase from a local shop. The first...

I'm running out of beer in between brewing and am thinking about just brewing two at a time so I have backup. Is storing a full keg of beer just like storing a bottle of beer? Do I need to carbonate the keg before I put it in the basement (unrefrigerated) for a month or so?

Greetings! I'm not all that new at brewing unless you consider two years new. I guess it's sorta new but I know my way around a little. Something I just started doing is kegging my beer rather than bottling. The bottling process took forever with the cleaning etc. so this seemed like the way...

Greetings! I'm not all that new at brewing unless you consider two years new. I guess it's sorta new but I know my way around a little. Something I just started doing is kegging my beer rather than bottling. The bottling process took forever with the cleaning etc. so this seemed like the way...

I brewed an amber and all went well. It tastes great but I noticed when I refrigerate the bottles the beer becomes cloudy. Is this normal or is something wrong? I've kept some bottles in the fridge for a few days but it stays cloudy. 6 lbs. Light dry malt 3/4 lbs. Vienna malt 1/3 lb...

Like most first timers I've been fairly impatient with my fist batch. I started out with an Imperial Stout which sat in the primary for three weeks before bottling. The FG was higher than it should have been @ 1.030 which it stayed at for a week and a half. So out of impatience I bottled it. I'm...

I bottled up my Imperial Stout yesterday, started a new batch of Vanilla Porter on Saturday and have an Amber Ale kit on the counter. I'm thinking about doing the Amber Ale kit today. How many batches do you have at any given time?

Need some advice on the following recipe. 3 lbs. Dark Malt 2 lbs. Amber malt extract 4 lb. Can of Mountmellick Irish Stout 1 lb. Crystal Malt 60L 1/2 lb. Roasted barley 1/2 lb Black Patent malt 2 1/2 oz. Super Styrian hops (90 minute boil) 1 1/4 oz. Super Styrian hops (15 minute boil) 1 1/2 oz...

Twelve hours ago I put a batch of Vanilla Porter in a five gallon better bottle. This morning when I went to check on it and it was bubbles galore, knocked my airlock right off too. I'm worried that all my yeast has foamed out of the bottle, if that's an issue or even possible? What should I do?