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Test your gravity throughout the boil with a refractometer. You should be able to gauge your boil off and you can end your boil sooner if your first wort was too high or boil it longer if your first wort was too low. Remember to adjust the times for your hop addition times to reflect the change...

Look at the ingredients to your bottled water. Most have sodium bicarbonate present and I even in low ppm, sodium present can cause the metallic mouthfeel. Reverse osmosis or distilled water should alleviate that issue. If you have a city water supply, ask for their water analysis. Sometimes...

Cheers fellow homebrewers! I knew that I'd be able to find a nice concise answer on here. 10 gallons of summer ale to bottle this weekend and brewing a 10 gallon traditional all grain witbier next weekend. Bottoms up everyone!

I've built my all grain stainless system from scratch by just doing tours at about a dozen different breweries. The one question I still have to find an answer for is, when is the appropriate time to start the whirlpool in my brew kettle? On my nano pump I've shortened the headspace to roughly 4...