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I just bought a wort chiller today. Yea! No more bringing in buckets of snow in from outside! I was going to buy some tubing and make one myself, but when I checked the price on 25ft. of copper tubing, it was real close to the $65 for a pre-fabbed one. A book I had said that for $15 and some...

Well, I was expecting to get around 60 bottles worth out of my 5 gallon batch of bitter, but I only filled 47.5 bottles. Perhaps I didn't measure the 5 gallon mark on the carboy properly. How many do you usually get from 5 gallons, and should I be concerned about the ratio of 3/4 cup corn sugar...

For fermenting which is better? the 5 gallon which will blow off more of the hop resins and exess yeast during the start of fermentation? or the 6 1/2 gallon which will leave more in the carboy? or does it matter? I am just getting back into beer brewing after a long break, but have accumulated...

Hi everyone My name is Mike from Geneva Illinois, I took a few year break from homebrewing beer, I really got involved in winemaking and motorcycles pretty heavily, obviously 2 seperate activities, but with my last 2 batches of wine turning out poorly 1 was very bitter and the other was was...