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ive used a strain of yeast by wyeast 1007 german ale. i never harvest the yesast, i just repitch on old cake. this was the third generation and all of a sudden the yeast is taking much longer to settle. it is going but verrry slowly. the previous batches were much more flocullant.

so im still an extract brewer and of course would like to step into the world of grain brewing. i discovered you can toast oats and use them as a portion of fermentable sugars. can anyone point me in the direction of quantities to sugar proportions? and perhaps what temp i should mash at...and...

Alright i was at the brew store in my area, its a brewers direct and i asked the clerk how much malt to subistute for the brewers sugar. he told me 1 for 1. now im questioning his ability to help me as the malt extracts are 1 pound and not one kg. i havent brewed today yet so if i need to go get...

I recentally had a beer from BlackRock breweries (thay make the wheat beer called grasshopper) and the beer was called traditional ale. was one of the best beers ive tasted, and i was wondering what beer this wold be close to, perhaps an amber ale with medium dry malt? any thoughts please.

i am new. i recentally brewed two batches (batch 3 and 4 for me) and airated them with my wine degasser. they were my first batches to need blow off tubes. can i attribute this to better O2 content? the problem with assesing this is that every batch i sort of improve. my first coopers dark ale...

ive decided i would not brew with a hydrometer for a few batches as i dont really care about final alcohol percentage. how many people out there have gone hydrometerless?

if i were to brew a coopers kit for instance with no fermentables what would my final alcohol percentage be? Id like a beer with low percentage for those days you want a cold one and dont want to get drunk (i know these days are few)

this is my second batch of beer. my first was a dark ale coopers and it carbonated in 5 days to excellent fizzyness. the entire time i could see the bubbles going in the bottles. on this batch which is a pilsner i never saw the bubbles in the bottles and after 4 days of no action the beer is...

I recentally stared beer making after 8 years of not doing it. i was sorting my old equipment and i came across a niagra mist cranberry shiraz i never made. went out today to get the yeast as all i had was the the bladder in the box and the yeast would have been toast anyway. the guy at wine...