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So my SWMBO called me to tell me there was beer everywhere. My batch ended up foaming over and blew the cover off my new conical fermenter. I have a few questions. 1. What can cause this? 2. Is there anything i can do to prevent it from happening again? 3. Is a blow off the only thing i can do...

So im just getting into all grain batches, i have done i think two batches. Now unlike extract i cant start with extra water to compensate for boil off. So after i mash, sparge, and boil am i able to just boil plain water in the amount i need to get the right volume and add it? If i can do...

Im using a swamp cooler keeping the water between 66 and 68 for ferm since its summer. When i rack to secondary do i need to worry about temp anymore or could i remove them from the swamp cooler to make room for new batches. I usually ferm primary for a week and secondary for 2 weeks.

Ok all i have is an electric stove. Can someone give me alternatives to using a gas set up. I dont want to be brewing outside do to cleanliness. I would like to stay indoors but dont want propane tanks inside my house. I have heard very little about partial boils. Maybe partial boils is my...

So if you have to high of a ferm temp can the batch be recovered with extended bottle conditioning? My batches were usually 2-3 weeks in bottles. My last two batches are "green"(have a liquor "burn" finish). The one batch is at 6 weeks in the bottle, 5 weeks on the other batch. The batch...

Everything was normal through the hole process and i just opened my first bottle from a batch yesterday. It smelled normal and the initial taste was normal but it finished with a liquor taste and the "burn" of liquor. Im hoping it could be nust the one bottle but im thinking all my bottles in...

The thermo plastic tubing on williamsbrewing.com, is this really flexible or not. I almost had my mash tun built and had a silicone tube that is not very flexible and cant be ran the way i need without kinking. I need a high temp flexible tube like almost licorice flexible. Please help

Im building my first mash tun. Got my 5 gal igloo cooler, got a new spigot, and made a manifold out of cpvc. Problem i have i need something flexible to go from manifold to back of spigot. Is regular vinyl tubing ok? Its the only thing i could find to go between the two ends which are...

Ok i bought an igloo 5 gal beverage cooler. I bought a new better control spigot from my LHBS. Problem is the old spigot is 13/16" diameter threads and the new one is 1" diameter threads. Any ideas how i could resize this hole without wrecking my cooler or ruining the circle shape? I thought...

When pitching the yeast should i pitch the yeast into the ferm bucket the pour the wort in, or pour the wort in and pitch the yeast spread over the top of the wort? Not sure if it really matters but thought i would ask.

I did everything right from what i thought gave 2 weeks bottle conditioning at room temp and one week in fridge to drop yeast and yet i had no carbonation at all. This was my first batch and it boiled over causing me to loose half a gallon on a gallon batch but i primed with dme using northern...

I bottle two weeks ago and was looking at my bottles today and noticed there is a settling on the bottom and the beer is still slightly hazy. I gently mixed the sediment up into the beer but it just re settled. I also notice one or two particles floating in the beer. Did something go wrong...

Ok i have been brewing extract pilsen light with german hallertau hops and coopers brewing yeast. I do 1 gal batches. I boil water for about 5 minutes to clean it then add my hops and start a timer for 45 min. I then add 1lb of my dme then i add the other 1/2lb of dme 20 min before flame...

Im brewing ales right now and i usually get an SG of 1.060. My last batch had an SG of 1.066 ish. Wondering what would cause the higher SG and is it a bad sign or does it just mean ill have a higher ABV in the end?

Ok got one for the info nuts. Looking to find out the differences between bavarian wheat and light pilsen dme. Currently im using light pilsen but was wondering what things would change with the use of Bavarian wheat?

Im looking at making an Apfelwein. My first batch im gonna make according to the recipe but it got me thinking. What would a dme in place of the corn sugar do to the flavor. If anyone has tried this please respond with your results and how much you used was it lb for lb or did you use more or...

Ok bottled my first batch yesterday. I fermed for 6 days and conditioned in secondary for about 12 or 13 days. Fg was right around 1.010 which is what the recipe called for. I only had a half gallon due to boil over and not compensating for evap. Got 4 bottles from it and i use northern...

Im looking at cost differences. My father can get me a 6x6 aluminum heating coil, that i could run water through, for free. Right now i do 1gal batches. Now i could also buy soft copper for $25 and make a copper IC. Would the aluminum heating coil be a bad idea being that its made of aluminum?

I have my batch in a secondary glass carboy right now. Ferm in primary six days and racked to secondary. I have a good layer of sediment in the bottom of the carboy and it cleared up nice, but 6 days into secondary now i have some particles that are floating that wont sink and are increasing...

If i want to try different flavor infusions what rules are the basics. Does the flavor have to be in liquid form when add? When do i add the infusion of choice when doing an extract brew? Can you infuse almost any flavor? I am curious because i started with a 1 gal set up, and when i start...