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So I have had it with the standard priming sugar that seems to come with most extract kits. In my mind they leave a strange aftertaste and too much carb as opposed to the beer I've kegged and carbed with friends. Unfortunately I have to carb in bottles due to my lack if space and funds. One of...

So I went to the local homebrew shop today to buy some yeast for an esb I am making today. I saw a bag of oak chips and couldnt resist. I basically have two questions. First, how do I sanitize the oak before I put it in the secondary fermenter? Would soaking it in burbon work or should I soak in...

First of all, thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out with this. I'm building an ipa recipe and I had a question about the hop selection I was going to use. Apart from some specialty grains I have yet to determine, I was going to use 6lbs of Pilsen lme and 1lbs of briess Pilsen lme.

Hi All, I am planning on brewing a Brewers Best European Bock kit this weekend and was looking to make a few tweaks. I have read on several threads here that saving some of the malt extract and adding it during the last 15 minutes of the boil is a way to improve the overall quality of your...

I'm planning on brewing a pale ale this weekend and was considering attempting a dry hop in the secondary fermentor. I'm fairly new to all this, so I was wondering what would be a good length of time to dry hop with one ounce of whole cascade? The guys at my home brew store suggested racking on...