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I'm doing my second all grain right now and I accidentally caluclated my strike water for 12 lbs of grain instead of 11. Should I do anything to make up for this or just not worry about it?

My buddy told me that if I have my grain milled for me and I'm not planning on using it right away I should store it in my freezer or it will loose some of its sugars. Is there any truth to this? I would be using it in with in three to four days.

I live in Salt Lake and just want to know what other people here do to keep there fermentation temp down in the summer. I was thinking a shallow tupperware bin with some water in it to keep my buckets cool might work. My apartement is not very well air conditioned so it still gets up to about 80...

I just switched from extract to partial mash and then to all grain. None of my beers now seem to get very good head retention since I stopped doing extract. Any advice on what I can do about this?

kind of a newbie question, but what exactly is meant by deadspace in my MLT? Thanks

Just did my 1st all grain and got scared about my brewhouse efficiancy and added a lb of corn sugar & 10 oz of DEMto my boil. I totally shouldn't have worring because now I have an SG of 1.080. So my question is should I hurry down to my LHBS and grab another package of wyeast to pitch?

how do I figure our my brewhouse efficiancy? I have beersmith but I can't figure it out. A little help please.

Doing my 1st all grain today with a 10.5 lb grain bill. So I am just wondering would a be correct to mash iwth 3.25 gallons of water and then do my sparge(not sure of the difference between fly and batch but I will be using a sparge arm.) with 5.5 gallons of water. I generally get about a 1.5...

Doing my 1st AG, shooting for a Scottish style ale. Here is what I'm thinking 10 lb domestic 2 row 2 lbs carmel/crystal 60L 1 lb brown sugar during boil 2 0z fuggles, 1oz 60 min, 1 oz 30 min 1 oz Cascade 5 min Wyeast 1720 scottish ale I figure 75 min mash with 13(3.25 gallons @ 153...

How important is it for me to strain my wort when dumping it into my primary? I haven't really worried about it in the past but the more I brew the more I wonder.

Has anybody out there grown hops in planters? I have two cascades and a chinook planted in large planters(20 in opening) and I have them planted in miracle grow. Has anybody done this that can offer me some advice? I plan on growing them on hop cord(can't remember what it is really called) and...

What the hell is gelatin used for?

I've just switched to brewing partial mash from extract. I just did a partial mash IPA where the SG was supposed to 1.060 but I ended up with 1.041. I have had a hard time maintaning a consistant tempurature on my mash. For this one I was able to keep it between 151 & 154 for the majority of the...

have some pics of a fridge that I want to convert. Would like some advice. Hoe the pics help

I have a few pics of a fridge that I want to convert and was looking for some advice. Don't know if these pics will be useful or not. Any advice will help