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I have a 5gal batch of Coopers Stout in my carboy right now. This one is more active than I'm used to. The beer has been flowing out of the air lock somewhat. It has slowed down but the airlock still fills with beer. The other night I took off the airlock and sanitized it, only for it to refill...

I have been wanting to make a Pumpkin Spice type beer. I've looked around at all sorts of scratch recipes but not sure I want to try making a scratch beer quite yet. Then a thought came to my head... Could I just modify a beer kit to get an approximate simulation? I'm fairly ignorant to the...

I'm not an absolute beginner but I have only brewed about 5 batches in the past couple years. The most recent I have bottled is a kit of "Coopers: Real Ale." I did a stage in the fermentor, I don't remember the exact gravity readings at the moment but I calculated it to 4.2% alcohol by vol. Then...

I'm not an absolute beginner but I have only brewed about 5 batches in the past couple years. The most recent I have bottled is a kit of "Coopers: Real Ale." I did a stage in the fermentor, I don't remember the exact gravity readings at the moment but I calculated it to 4.2% alcohol by vol. Then...

I'm brewing a kit of Black Rock: Nut Brown Ale. I'm doing a 2 stage fermentation and am In the second stage. Beer is in the carboy with the air lock on. It has been in the carboy for 4 days and I don't see any bubbles in the air lock. There was at first some bubbles stuck to the sides above the...

I just mixed up a batch of sanitizer. Its been a while since I last brewed a batch but I seem to remember the Sodium Metabisulphite solution having a strong odor and leaving the smell on my hands. The solution I just mixed up doesn't seem to have any smell at all. Is that normal? The powder by...

I am still pretty new to home brew. I have made 2 batches of Baron's home brew. The process for that includes fermenting the wort in a bucket for a couple weeks before doing secondary fermentation in the car boy for a while longer. Then on to bottling. I now want to try this batch of Black Rock...

Newbie here fixin' to make my 3rd ever beer kit. Black Rock: Nut Brown Ale. Trouble is the yeast that came with it is old and probably not worth using. Living out of the city I can't just go to my local Superstore for beer making yeast. My question may possibly get a chuckle (or a belly...