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I use star-san in a spray bottle for this purpose an most other sanitizing. Mix 1.2 tspn to gallon of distilled water. Lasts for months. 1 qt in sprayer does an entire brew day, another qt an entire bottling day. Assuming you are starting with clean equipment this is all you need. I've used...

I'm thinking of forcing the issue when we get back from vacation, but I'll talk to my therapist first. Sorry for the rambling. Any thoughts, questions, concerns, or advice are appreciated. Forcing the issue may be the worst idea. You have the right to spend some quality time with the kids...

The considerations for batch size are personal. If you love good beer but only enjoy 1 or 2 per week (and you're not sharing) 1 gal batches make good sense. 5 gal batches work for me to establish a "pipeline". However I do like 1 gal batches for experimental purposes. Brew day take me about 5...

The "enhancer" is likely comprised of mostly dextrose. Along with the dextrose you are only increasing alcohol by replacing LME with corn sugar. You could replace the dex with sucrose and save enough on one batch to get an inexpensive hydrometer. The ingredients you are using can probably...

If you use say 10 lbs of grain, that bag is gonna be hard to lift even after sparge/drain. All that added weight is water. Using 7.5G total water won't ever get 5 G to the fermenter. I almost always have to add water, usually at sparge since it will be pasturized. After cooling wort I'd stick...

A non hydrometer way of knowing it's that time: I use the standard fermenter bubbler. After the week or 10 days I depresss the lid gently to force a few bubble out until the water is level - - see how long it takes to get back to _ - depress lid again till level. Depending on the fermenter (I'm...

I've used soda bottles in a pinch, came out fine and same carb as the grolsch bottles I use. Used those up first, don't like to age in plastic anything.