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Last night I racked a batch to secondary. The bucket and siphon I carefully washed with bleach water, then rinsed them with 1-Step. Today I changed the lid on my secondary for logistical reasons, and realized that the 1-Step I used last night was actually corn sugar. WELL - glad I...

My last batch had a rather explosive primary that was apparently 95% done after about three days (airlock is not a guarantee, but an idea anyway). It seemed 99.9% done at one week. As of today it's been 13 days. I racked it to secondary today in a sealed plastic bucket. After I was...

I made a batch of the following: 10.58 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter 0.55 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt 0.44 lb Carafoam 0.33 lb Chocolate Malt I kept adding 160 F water, but the mash temp seemed always to be between 130-140. After an hour, I really flooded it with 160 F water and let sit for...

I did a double infusion mash last night with my wife of a dark English ale. I guess we were a little 'enthusiastic' about squeezing every ounce of juice out of the barley, and it looked a lot like muddy water. Even after boiling, even after adding 1.5 teaspoons moss... It still looked...

I made a 5 gallon batch yesterday that turned out very murky, I suspect because we were too aggressive in straining out of our infusion mash. So rather than using the bottle-recommended 1 teaspoon of Irish moss, I added 1.5 teaspoons. ... not that it seemed to have much of an affect...

After a few 1 quart and 2 quart runs which spoiled in mason jars covered by cheesecloth... Having tried the coffee maker approach... Having attempted to use baker's yeast... I met a new friend recently who is a long time home brewer. He came over tonight and walked me through a double mash...

Hi, I'm a new brewer and I'm quite poor. I'm getting into this hobby quite slowly. Currently I have two quart jars of ale fermenting in mason jars covered with cheesecloth (rubber banded down). It's a simple SMASH that I brewed the other day. It's been 50 hours or so since I added...

I followed the directions at the below link almost exactly, except that I added the hops at the beginning of the boil by accident. It seems that during the boil it condensed quite a bit by lost steam - the end product was only 1 quart. I fit it in 1 quart jar. Also I used baker's yeast. Gosh...