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How much head space do I need to leave in bomber bottles? Same as the 12 oz bottles or a bit more?

For my second beer, I'd really like to do a partial mash. I'm particularly looking at AHS's partial mash kits. I've only done an extract thus far and have only a 4 gallon pot for my boil. I'm wondering what is the minimum of equipment required for a partial mash and what is the grain to water...

I'm looking at a bottle of Chinookie IPA from Full Pint Brewing Company and they have the following "Beer Nerd Stats" listed: O.G. 15.1 I.B.U. 103.1 °L 9.8 I know OG is original gravity, but what scale is being used here? I have no idea what °L 9.8 could be. Any ideas? BTW, it's a darn...

is that you'll never find broken glass in the bottom of your cases. I'm still waiting for my first batch to ferment and I need bottles, so I figured I'd pick up a 12 pack of something I've never tried. I found a variety of Dundee (Rochester, NY) at my local grocery and figured I'd give it a...

Tomorrow my assistant brewer (SWMBO) and I are brewing our first beer: a Brewers Best Smoked Porter. I can't wait. :ban: I'm wondering what are some key things I can do tonight to make tomorrow go as smoothly as possible. So far, I've done the following: 1. checked kit for all ingredients and...

As I'm reading threads here, I'm seeing that some of you guys are brewing huge (to me) batches of beer: 25 gallon kettles, 20+ gallon fermenters, etc. Now don't get me wrong, I love a tasty beverage, but that's a lot of beer. Do you brew less often, give some away, stockpile, swim in it like...

Didn't see a better place to post this, so I'm putting it here. I wanted to give a thumbs up to Fifth Season Gardening in Raleigh. I'm just getting started with home brewing and these guys were extraordinarily helpful. 5th season was initially a hydroponics supply store that branched off into...

I'm planning to brew my first beer right around the first of the year and have not yet decided what style to start with. The LHBS carries brewers best kits and I'd like to do one of the following: american amber ale, american pale ale, india pale ale, red ale, smoked porter. Can anyone speak to...