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I got a 2nd glass carboy for Christmas that I'm using for my primary fermenter. The only problem is, the hole at the top is not big enough to get a specific gravity reading with my hydrometer. It will fit through the hole, but there is no way I could get it out. How do you check specific...

According to the description of the recipe, the flavor of the Mountain Dew doesn't really carry over to the beer. Either way, I'm always interested in trying something new...

I have recently had the itch to make a caffeinated beer a la Drew Carey's Buzz Beer. I found this recipe online for Mountain Brew. It's basically a normal recipe, but the water is (mostly) replaced with Mountain Dew. I just wasn't sure how the extra sugars in the soda will conflict with the...

Thanks for the reply, usmcruz. It is an immersion chiller. I figured that boiling it would sanitize it enough, but I didn't want want to ruin the batch. I will just make sure that it's clean to the eye before boiling it for 5 minutes. I normally make 5-6 gallons of sterilizing solution in my...

I just got a wort chiller for christmas and I wasn't sure exactly how I needed to sanitize it. Do I need to soak it in the iodophor or should I sanitize it by letting it sit in the boiling wort for a while? I am a sanitizing FREAK and I sanitize everything before I start. That brings up...