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ive got this beer about ready to move to secondary but im thinking about doing an experiment where ill split it up into 3 or 4 1 gallon just and ill oak each one with chips that were soaked in different types of whisky, has anyone seen something like this done before? ive never use oak...

The last beer I made was a strong scotch ale that I double pitched nottingham on, and it was very active. Yeast was bubbling out of the fermenter (bucket) lid. Since that means the bucket lid isn't air tight is my beer under threat of infection? The dried yeast on the top of the bucket...

if i want to assure that the tripel i just bottled carbs up can i buy something like this fizz drops (http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/fermenters-favorites-fizz-drops-8-oz.html) and put them in the bottles i just bottled? they have some sugar in them, would it be better to wait 2 weeks...

It ferments in a basement in the high 60s, the bottle conditions there as well. I measure by weight with a scale

everywhere ive read people seem quit sure that putting the sugar solution in the bucket and then letting the beer siphon into it will allow it to sufficiently mix itself. i admit that from watching the whirlpool effect it causes as the two mix leaves me pretty stumped as too how all the sugar...

Ive brewed 7 or 8 all grain batches so far, and a consistent problem in almost all of them has been under carbonation. From the beginning ive been mixing in my priming sugar solution just as Palmer describes to do in how to brew (occasionally using more sugar as prescribed by online...

i just came across, that. bit of a relief, thanks

just opened it, theres a decent krausen already on top, no air lock activity yet. is there nothing i can really do at this point

i made a 1085 scotch ale last night, things didnt go as well as i hoped with my new wort chiller, and i simply forgot to aerate before pitching two packs of unrehydrated nottingham yeast on 80ish degree wort. its been probably 14 or 15 hours since i pitched. ususally when i aerate i just dump...

ive been looking over diptubes/screens to put in my kettle and saw these ones that appear to be in blichmann kettles, can you buy these somewhere? Ive seen you can buy the screen, but what about one with the SS shield?

So you recirculate through the hop filter before sending the wort to the chiller? Could u describe that process? Thanks

What I was planning was to put the IC in a cooler with ice and run the ground water through it to a plate chiller, according to the duda disiel website I could chill 10 gallons in 13min for $65; ..

ive been using an immersion wort chiller since i began brewing, and this summer it has been taking me as long as an hour in some instances to chill my wort just to 80. so im wanting to get a plate chiller since the duda diesel ones can be had for 70 or 80$, but i need some help understanding...

i had kind of gotten the impression that bags are not so great for pellets, but this was the first time i used whole leaves. lesson learned

if i tried to scoop them out and put them in a mesh bag and weigh them down would i be taking too big an infection risk?

They've just been sitting on the top like this for 4 days now. There is 3oz in there; how can they add tastiness to my ipa when theyre not even in contact with it? should i press them down into the beer?

when i mashed the temp was 156 for the first 30 min but i was able to then get it down to 149, it mashed for about 90 min total before i started sparging

only one view? i guess i picked a bad title:(

Two weeks ago i brewed NB's number 8 all grain. It was my first strong ale and my fourth all grain brew(i started all grain). The OG was 1.081 @ 67F. I only used one smack pack that was in a starter for 24 hours. Fermentation was at about 65-68(lower acceptable end). Despite all the reviews...

i tried the two brown sugars side by side and theyre damn similar in appearance and taste but maybe not quite identical. pre boil OG was like 1.04 and after the boil and all that sugar it bumped all the way up to 1.081 (supposed to be 1.084), and the airlock is bubbling like mad so everything...