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Ok i'm kinda new to homebrewing and have only brewed 3 batches, but i am very cautious when it comes to sanitizing. I hardly keep any of my equipment that i'll be using out of a sanitized solution (primarily 5 gallons of water with iodophor). What I was wondering was if i could ease off on...

ok i was wondering what was the prime temperature for fermenting a lager... i know its somewhere around 60 F or below. Also i would like to know a few tricks for keeping the brew at the temp. ( I live in florida and the only way it gets below 60 F is if the devil goes on vacation.... which...

well i was wondering if there was an easier way to sanitize the bottles besides using my ineffecient method of submerging them completely in my bucket of water with two cap fulls of iodopher sanitizer in it. This way was very tedious and time consuming especially when you have around 30 bottles...

ok this was the first time i racked from a primary fermenter to a secondary and as i was finishing siphoning over my "Wild Worthog Hefeweizen" i notice that the sediment at the bottom was very "chunky" and gritty. Sense this is my second batch that i've brewed and my first time racking over to a...

ok i just wanted to share my first experience of drinking my first batch of beer and i must say i was really suprised at how well it turned out. The London Brown Ale was really dark and smooth which was much better than my expectation. Even though i only did primary fermentation it still turned...

ok well today was my first bottling day and i had a very hard time siphoning my brew out of my carboy into my bucket. I used method of filling the tube and racking cane with water and using that to start the siphoning but it tended to only siphon a small amount before dieing out... i don't know...

ok i would like to share part of my first brewing experience with all of you and i would appreciate any comments or suggestions (whether they be for the good or bad). so for the most part i think i did pretty well even though i am still a rookie at this. i do think that i made a few...

Hello everyone, this is first post and just wanted to say hi, i'm technically not a "brewer" yet but my home brewing kit will be in by the end of the week... oh how i can't wait to :tank: .... :D