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Back during Christmas my brother bought me a $100 gift certificate to the wrong brewstore. My LHBS is excellent: carries everything I need, has good prices, and is the ONLY store in NYC. Unfortunately my brother bought me a gift card to an online shop, brooklynbrewshop.com, that his horrendous...

So this may be a dumb question, but when testing for conversion with iodine, do you test wort from your outtake valve--through the grain bed as if you're collecting or vorlaufing--or is it drawn through the top with something like a turkey baster? I understand you need very little I just don't...

I'm really trying to brew this Sunday and can't make it out to my LHBS until then. I was planning on building up a starter from previous homebrews' bottle sediment, which were made with a starter of Wyeast 1056 American Ale, but Brew Day snuck up on me and now there's no way I can get the...

I just cleared up all of my fermentors before the holidays and am looking to start brewing again in about 2 weeks. I have 50 beers sitting in my apartment after giving just as many away during the holidays. My question is: Can I build up the yeast from the bottom of one of my bottles into a big...

I’m about to rack an IPA tonight into the secondary. I was also reading today about making hard cider. Could I use the slurry from the bottom of my IPA to create a starter for the cider, or is the yeast not going to eat the sugar because it is now used to maltose (WYeast American Ale 1056, made...

Hello all! I’ve been getting into all grain having brewed a few batches extract and finding it kind of lame compared to what I could have been doing. I was going to brew my 3rd batch of all grain tonight but am worried that I will need a yeast starter to get my desired FG. I’m going for a...