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I've started experimenting with my own recipes; I always make a yeast starter to get the party started. My beers always have a raging fermentation and the gravity never seems to change after a week of fermentation. This has happened with my last three beers. How many days do you check for FG...

I double my keezer (when out of beer) as a temperature controlled fermenter. Living in Arizona, this works out pretty well as ambient temps are typically too high and I don't like the wet towel in a tub of ice water technique. This time, I'm fermenting two 5 gallon beers with great activity...

So I'm brewing an Imperial IPA that required a pound of hops. I knew that would take quite a bit of volume and skew my liquid volume that I end up with so I overcompensated for the hops and "angels share" that happens in my primary fermenter. I sealed the primary with 5.75 gallons. OG was still...

I'm thinking of modifying an extract recipe from northernbrewer; their nut brown ale extract. What I would like to do is add oats to the grain bill for the purpose of giving it a little extra body and more head retention. I have brewed this recipe twice before and I enjoy it but it lacks a few...

I recently kegged my first homebrew... well two of em. I made a nut brown ale and a Fat Tire clone. Both being ales I decided to carbonate at 7psi. The charts actually indicated 4-6psi for an English ale but I wanted to have it ready in time for the holidays. However, I did not want to force...