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Hi - I am still very new, and so I added too much water during my mash for temperature control and I have roughly .75 excess gallons of water. My plan is to first boil off that .75 gallons, and then proceed with my boil as planned. I have a lot of hops to be added during the boil, so I was...

So I’m still quite new to this, and I realized I think I only really filled the outer portion of my airlock up to the line, and didn’t fill any water in the center portion. Obviously some water likely trickled in but nowhere near up to the line... I put in the fermenter about 12 hours ago...

So I had my first batch about 2 weeks into bottle conditioning, and my second batch almost 2 weeks into its fermentation, and I had to take off for a few days. Both batches were in my basement and while I was gone the house got down to about 55 degrees. Will this have hurt/ruined my batches...

Hi - my first batch is still fermenting, and I'm already plotting out my second batch. I wanted to try a double IPA, get something up in the 8-9% abv range. I was reading a recipe that appeared to be calling for 9 pounds of DME for a 5 gallon batch. Does that sound right? I'm basically...

Well, first batch and I of course had a boil over at the start of my wort's boil. About 5 minutes after adding the DME. It wasn't boiling so I moved it to another burner, turned away for 2 minutes and it boiled over. I immediately moved it back to the previous burner so it never really lost...

Hi, I've been researching home brewing for a little while, but am just finally taking my first plunge today. I have one main question, but I'll also explain what I'm looking to do and please let me know if you see any glaring mistakes in this. My plan is to boil 2.5 gallons of water to make...