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It's a new book, but I looooove Brew Better Beer. It has so many pictures and made me feel very confident going in because I had visual cues to every process in brewing an AG batch of beer. It explains the basics but gets down to business and is really, really good for a beginner I think. I read...

I use a gallon plastic carton which I sanitize thoroughly. Works fine so far.

I started with AG. It's not that hard. I love the book Brew Better Beer which gives great basic AG instructions with pictures to help - this gave me the confidence to go straight to AG.

Thank you all! There's no film between the beige floats, just oil on the surface, so it seems like it's fine. Never seen yeast floaters in a beer before; they weren't there after primary / before I added the oak so I worried. It's true that it's easy to worry too much about your beers when...

Hey all, I'm brewing a Belgian-style dubbel and just threw some bourbon-soaked oak cubes in it a week ago. Today I checked on it and I'm a little worried about infection. Would a normal Belgian strong ale yeast act like this two weeks after brew day? The cube-shaped things are the oak, but I'm...

Hi! I'm new to homebrewing too, but I've been brewing in small and larger batches using the instructions from Brew Better Beer which specifically give 1-gallon instructions -- so helpful! I have no answers to your first two questions. Maybe others can help you out. Those are both issues I...