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I have just moved a stout to my secondary fermenter. Does the secondary fermenting phase need to have an air locked on it, air tight or can it just be wrapped with foil? I'm storing my secondary in a pressure barrel. Been reading different comments about what to use but just wanted some facts to...

I've been brewing beer for about half a year now, nothing to serious, just the ready made packs you just knock down with hot water and ferment. What I've noticed during the fermentation phase, is once the airlock stops bubbling, if you gently rock it (not hard but just enough to disturb the...

I made a batch last night and have a horrible feeling I pitched the yeast too early and killed it with the heat in the fermentation tank. This morning I had no activity in my airlock when normally by now it's going crazy!?! Shall I wait, pitch more yeast, or what?!?!

As a new starter to the hobby, I was wondering, when I transfer my beer from the fermentation tank to the secondary phase, will be beer be ok if the secondary fermentation is air tight, as I only have my pressure barrel to transfer it to. And how long do u recommend leaving it, in it's secondary...

I've made 3 batches of beer now, really enjoying and all that good stuff. But what I'm finding is once I've primed and bottled the beer, after a few weeks, it's carbonated but not really holding its "fizz" towards the end of a pint glass. Is this normal for home brew? I mean the beer tastes...

I have brewed 3 batches of beer now so I'm still very much a beginner at this. Once the wort, sugars have been and mixed and diluted properly, the instruction say it needs about a week in its first fermenting phase after pitching the yeast. I do all this as instructed, but find that my airlock...

I will be making a 40 pint batch of Australian ale in the next few weeks, what I'm looking for is the strongest possible alcoholic percentage possible. I have been reading that honey or brown sugar can make it stronger then normal. Any tips on this situation??? And I really don't care how the...