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I have brewed 3 IPA's and 2 pale ales thus far. The last IPA I brewed was a bit tricky due to the warm temps and having to keep the fermenter chilled all the time... Very Difficult when you work 12 - 14 hours a day! That being said, What is a good style of beer to brew that would ferment in...

I am getting ready to keg my brew for the first time. I have ALWAYS bottled before. So, once I put it in the keg, do I just put the top on it, hook it up to the kegerator and apply the CO2 to it and hold the tap handle until the beer starts to come out and then let it sit that way for a couple...

I brewed as Stone Ruination Clone Extract with some grains a few weeks ago and I dry hopped it on Monday. This weekend I wanted to try cold crashing it and then keg it... OR... keg it and then cold crash it. I asked a similar question a few weeks ago but I am still fairly confused. When do...

I decided to buy a kegerator and just now ordered a keg kit from Northern Brewer. I have also never cold crashed a beer due to space... So, my questions are: After I finish dry hopping the beer, do I put the beer into the bottling bucket and then the keg? Or just straight from the primary...

I am ready to bottle my fourth batch of beer today!!! But this brings up a question! This was the third clone that I have done. One was two hearted ale, one was Stone Ruination, and this one is fat tire clone. My very first beer was from a kit and I really didn't know anything about anything...

After brewing two batches of beer without a wort chiller, I think it might be time to step up the system a bit and go for one. I'm tired of it taking forever for my wort to cool. I am looking at an immersion chiller and also at plate chiller. Which one seems to be easier to use? Which one...

First question is about fermentation... I read some people post stuff about leaving the beer in the primary for a month or two yet I read where other people leave it for 7 days... I brewed a stone ruination ipa and after 10 days, I checked it and it was at 1.019FG. I checked it 4 days later...

I have now brewed two beers. One is a mutton's IPA extract kit with added hops and I have also done a ruination IPA. The Mutton's is now on its 3rd week of conditioning... and the Ruination is will be done dry hopping on Super Bowl Sunday!!!! Anyhow, my wife bought me this home brew kit...

I have now brewed two beers. One is a mutton's IPA extract kit with added hops and I have also done a ruination IPA. The Mutton's is now on its 3rd week of conditioning... and the Ruination is will be done dry hopping on Super Bowl Sunday!!!! Anyhow, my wife bought me this home brew kit...

popped the top on my first home brewed beer today. It was a Mutton's Kit IPA with added hops and extract. It isn't too bad at all (for my first time with mistakes and all)!! I'm thrilled! I was told her heard somewhere that the longer it sits the better it will be. Is this true? This bottle I'm...

popped the top on my first home brewed beer today. It was a Mutton's Kit IPA with added hops and extract. It isn't too bad at all (for my first time with mistakes and all)!! I'm thrilled! I was told her heard somewhere that the longer it sits the better it will be. Is this true? This bottle I'm...

Hello All!! I'm on my second batch of beer ever... this one is a ruination IPA. On my first batch, which was a mutton's IPA kit with added cascade in a boil and extra for a dry hop... At the end of the first week of fermentation, I added the dry hops because I saw the airlock stop moving...

I want to see what others have to say about this!!! Let me start back in pre-historic times with me and bring you to now. Way way way back when I first started drinking beer, it was MGD for me!!! Then one day, I tried a craft beer...and I wasn't very sure what to think. Was it good or was...

Apparently, Murphy's Law and I work together!!! I have officially brewed two batches of beer. One is fermenting and the other is in bottles conditioning. What I have found is that if I can find a way to do it wrong, I will!!! LOL. My first batch of beer: I went to put the airlock in and...

First, I'm on my second batch! Will the Noob Questions ever end??? Or even after brewing for years do questions pop up in your head?!?!? My first real question is, when I was using the hydrometer, I would take it and spray it down with some sanstar and drop it in the fermenter bucket...

If you look at my other posts, you will know that I am a very new brewer. Today I did my second batch ever and I still haven't tasted my first batch since it is conditioning. That being said, my local home brew shop (only ONE in the whole area) guy knows that I am brand new and is very...

This is my second batch of beer ever... But my fist one without a kit and trying to do a clone recipe. I really thought that I was ready for this and other than this one problem, I seemed to hit everything spot on with temps and times and such!!! Anyhow, I decided to follow the "BYO mags 250...

I bottled my first batch of beer today. It was a mutton's IPA kit where I added extra extract, Hops, and dry hops. It was a 5 gallon batch. I ended up with 38 12oz bottles. Is this about right? I was planning on about 46 bottles or so... Also, I was told that they should stay in bottles...

How many people keep log books and how detailed of information do you put into them. I jotted down notes from my first brew... but then I started thinking, It might be a great thing to start jotting down every bit of information... hops, extracts, weights, temps, yeast, ferment times, etc etc...

I have read forum after forum after forum (on here using the search function) about dry hopping. I put here we go again, because I'm asking again (first time for me...this is my first batch ever of IPA...and first batch of beer ever). This question seems to be the same as asking should I get a...