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I have an AHS Vienna Lager that is still bubbling a couple per minute after 16 days and have a couple of questions. I have not done the rest yet and was wondering if some people do the entire fermentation and lagering in the carboy vs racking to a secondary? The recipe called for doing the...

My wife bought a really nice tap handle for me but we now see that I apparently needed one with a female end? Does anyone know if we can make this work with some type of adapter? The thread sizes are also a little bit different which may complicate matters even more.

I guess taking the FG sample and carefully moving my glass carboy still stirred up a bit of sediment right before I am ready to keg. Should I wait to keg, try to put some type of grain bag or something over the end of the tube when syphoning, or just go for it? Sorry for the newbie question.

So I bought one of those glass big mouth bubblers and didn't realize until too late they don't have Gallon markings on the side. Estimated the 5G mark and it now looks like my fermenting batch is around 4.5 to 4.7 G (no wonder the OG was high..). I will be kegging this batch (first time)...

So, I jumped the gun and pulled my OG sample prior to adding the last gallon of water to reach 5G. Is there some way to calc what my OG would have been if I was at 1.076 for 4 gallons? The ESB recipe I used as my base did not have specialty grains (I steeped .5 lbs each of munich and...

The last time I had a 3 gallon boil for a 5G batch, I had a much harder time getting down to pitching temp. I was wondering if it is okay to decrease the boil to 2G (or 2.5G) so that I can add 3G of cold water to arrive at a 5G batch and reach pitching temps easier? My usual technique is to...

I was wondering if a standard 21x21x32 dorm frig would allow me to put a 5 gallon bucket inside for fermenation? I figured someone had tried this before, and before I buy one I was curious if it would fit since it looks like the door depth may eat up quite a bit of inside space. Thanks, Drew

I took the sample after adding ice to the wort but before shaking the bucket. I noticed the sample was much lighter in color than the wort but didn't think much of it until the reading later came in at 1.01. I am thinking it may have primarily consisted of water that melted off the ice. Is...

I would like to brew an LME Oktoberfest but if I do it this weekend it may have to be in primary for 4 weeks until I can bottle. Is this too long, and is there a max rule of thumb for leaving in a primary? I am going to try and keep a fan blowing on it and use the wet tshirt method of...

I just purchased a Trew Brew kit that uses LME and states the OG should be 1.04 to 1.042 with a FG of 1.01 to 1.012, which should be a little lighter ABV than I would like. I was wondering what everyone might suggest for ways to bump up the ABV to the mid 5's? I am guessing I need to...

I did a search on Brewcraft's Cream Ale kit that I just purchased for my 2nd batch and could not find much. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this kit? I am not sure I want to do a cream ale for my 2nd batch (1st was a First Born Pale Ale). I want to stick to an Ale extract...

So I did a search and found that it is not that uncommon to only rack approx 4 gallons from a 5 gallon batch if you stop siphoning about an inch above the sediment. I got 42 bottles out of my batch and unfortunately did not adjust the 5 oz of dextrose that I added to the bottling bucket. I...

I heard that some put Vodka in the Airlock and was wondering if using Vanilla flavored Vodka would be OK since that is all that I have? Has anyone tried Rum or Scotch before?

I bought some new ziploc plastic containers to freeze my ice that will be used to cool the wort to pitching temps. My question is, I washed these new containers and then put water in from my RO system and froze them. I did not sanitize them with odofor or anything, nor did I boil the water...

Received a Christmas gift of a brewing kit with a 20qt brew pot. I am told that the kits that the LBS sells all work with this size of pot, but it seems that many on the forum use bigger pots for their 5 gallon batches. I was also toying with possibly getting a pot with a thermometer. I am...

I'm curious if this is possible, or if Customs would freak out if you brought malt/hops back into the US?