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3rd batch of all grain is in the bottles! This one is a Bell's Amber clone (thread for that one is around here somewhere...) that I made for the 2nd time, but used a different yeast this time around. Anyway, here's the recipe: 81.8 9.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) 9.1 1.00 lbs. Crystal 90L...

Ok I just bottled a batch, and I had my wife cap my bottles so she could see what a pain it is, therefore she suggested I go ahead and buy the supplies to keg from now on. :rockin: This will be my initial foray into kegging, so I'm looking for a good setup. I have my eye on this one, but...

So if I understand correctly, as a general rule, hops are used in two ways: Bittering (boiled in the wort for a long time), and Aroma (added to the wort near the end of the boil) What is the idea behind dry hopping? I have a recipe that calls for pellets for the majority of the boil, but...

Got my first all-grain recipe in the primary, and it's off with a whimper thus far. OG was 1.053, which was pretty close to the 1.056 I was shooting for. I used a Wyeast 1272 American Ale 2 activator pack. The smack pack didn't expand like the one on my previous patch, but reading here...

What's a good temp for the sparge water to hit before a batch sparge? I'm doing a single in fusion mash in a rectangular cooler MLT. Are you not as concerned about a temp drop, since the grain is alread hot from the mash?

Is a 6 gallon Better Bottle going to have enough headspace for a 5 gallon wort, when used as a primary?

Brewed my second batch a while back, a nice Sam Smith's oatmeal stout clone. While it's similar to the commercial product, it's missing something. Namely, the malty sweetness is more pronounced than the store-bought beer, which I attribute to possibly too much hops, but the part I can't figure...

I'm having a hell of a time finding tincture of iodine to test for conversion. Where do you guys get yours?

Ok so I'm jumping into the all-grain world for the first time. I'm looking for some help on a couple points. I would like to learn how to answer these questions for myself, so if you can point me in the direction to how you arrive at the answers, that would be great so I don't have to keep...

I got ahead of myself the other day when I started getting this laid out for bottling. I realized that I had forgotten to buy a bucket to tap for a spigot (i'm attaching some tubing and the bottling wand to it), so I wound up just drilling one in the bucket I use for a primary. Should I...

I'm going to make the move to AG with my next batch, but in considering my setup, something struck me. What is it, specifically, that makes AG better than extract? Aside from the process itself, I mean. Is there a tangible difference in the end product? My first batch (ever) was an...

Anyone have any thoughts on a recipe for Bell's Winter White? I'm going to start AG for the first time soon, and would love to brew up something like that.

Been reading up on the move to AG, and I'm slowly buying equipment that I'm going to need. I'm planning on a rectangular cooler with a copper manifold. This raises two questions: How big do the slots need to be in the tubing? Should I leave the pieces just press fit together, or solder...

Need some quick advice: Got a batch into the primary last night, (second one ever, extract) and it's bubbling through the airlock pretty vigorously. It's to the point where some of the starsan solution is coming through the holes in the cap on the airlock. My primary is a food-grade...

Got everything laid out to make my second extract batch (yeah I know, all grain is better, etc etc, that's for batch #3), and I have a question that I just realized I don't have an answer to. I'm going to be adding 2oz of bittering hops during the boil, and I'm just hurling them into the wort...

I'm about to start a Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout clone from the Clonebrews book. The recipe calls for Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast. My local supplier doesn't carry this (of course) product, but I do have a packet of Safale S-04. Is that a viable substitute? Is one packet enough? If anyone...

I'm about to brew my first batch! In the meantime, I'm trying to get everything ready to roll. One of the things I of course need to do is sanitize my bottles. Here's my question....is it possible to sanitize the bottles ahead of time, and then store them so that you can be sure you don't...