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How long can wort sit in a carboy before pitching? I have done about 40 brews and have used both dry and liquid yeasts. Recently I used a dry yeast that my local homebrew doesn't carry. There were no signs of fermentation after 24 hours so I considered getting an equivalent liquid yeast from the...

I've brewed close to 30 extract kids over the last few years and each one has resulted in a darker color than anticipated or what is depicted on the website where I bought the kit. I recently did a Pliny clone and while it tasted fine the color wasn't even close. Is there some chemical reason...

I normally follow brewing directions to the letter. My kits usually tell me to boil a specific amount (say 2.5 gallons) in order to keep the desired hop bitterness/flavor. If I were to increase the boiling amount to 4 gallons (being 60% higher than the kit's recommendation), does anyone know how...

For the second consecutive time I attached the strainer bag to the siphon when transferring from primary to secondary. I left about 2 inches of the bag below the end of the siphon. Both times I got an extraordinary amount of bubbles and an occasional stoppage of flow. Anybody know what I am...

I've used the bag when filtering hops to my secondary or bottling bucket. Usually I tie the bag to the end of the cane with the bag floating in the wort. This has worked well and I leftmost of the hops behind. Last time I tied the bag high up on the cane with the bottom of the bag snug against...

The reason I ask is I have seen 2 different extract recipes that calls for adding a lot of hops or a few ounces of coarse ground coffee at flameout. The recipes then call for a 30 minute steeping with the kettle lid on -------before an ice path. Yet I will read of home brewers bragging of...

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I've read on a few threads that flip top bottles may not be the best bottle for long time storage and/or carbonation. Before I buy a case I'd like to know if the liter sized flip top bottles can be capped using caps that I use on my 22oz bottles. Ideally, I would like to do half caps/half flip...