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Can/Has anyone experimented, theorize or speculate what would be the results of using wheatgerm in their brew? Would it be like using raw wheat? Would you cereal mash it, protein rest and then up to sacc? Wheatgerm is the "heart" meaning all the good stuff is in there. I might try using it in my...

This might be a slightly off-the wall idea/ lame and I would like some feed back. So I have heard that plastic/seran wrap is 100% impermiable to air, while the plastic fermenting buckets are pourus in regards to letting air into the wort. I'm wondering how effective it would be to wrap a plastic...

Ok so I have been slightly annoyed by the ways I have to create yeast starters. I started by aiming my innculated wort into the tiny hole of a 22oz bottle (annoying as hell). Then I purchased a growler from New Belgium (considerably easier), but still a consideralable amount of aiming was...

I am wanting to brew some high adjunct/ protein grains. I am currently using a 10 gal igloo mash tun system. I grabbed an article from NorthenBrewer.com (http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/Hi-Res/advanced-mashing.pdf) about how to do a protein rest with an infusion system (vs. HERMS)...

I have a quick question. I was on www.tastybrew.com and they have multiple calculators. One of them is a sparge calculator. The "problem" is that it tells me to adjust my grain bill by around 1-2 lbs, and when I want to do a double batch it's more like 3-5lbs of adjustment. Now supposedly this...