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its not really REQUIRED as long as you wait long enough to be absoultely sure that it is done fermenting, i suppose they probably say its optional because if you follow exactly how they tell you to brew it you should be fine but you should definately have one if you really want to be precise...

i was just using a turkey baster to draw a sample of my English Brown Ale from my fermenter to test the gravity and make sure that it has hit its target gravity and i squeezed too hard on the turkey baster and the rubber part that u squeeze detached from the other part and the plastic piece fell...

as for now im doing somewhere in between, i cant seem to wait more than 2 weeks to bottle my beer and let it sit about 2 weeks before trying one and about 3-4 weeks before actually drinking a batch, mainly because i am still a new brewer and im always really curious as to how the different...

my book is the 3rd edition copyright 2003 it says "Fully revised and updated" but i guess your right, that doesnt mean that the WHOLE book has had every single detail picked through and revised

i just started brewing (just brewed my 6th batch) and my first 2-3 batches i let sit in primary for 7 days then bottled and let sit for 2-4 weeks and then they were gone but now that ive got a few batches under my belt im getting a little more patient and my kolsch that i brewed a while back sat...

every time i post a question about how long to let my beer sit in the primary the responses from this forum always seem to be in the 3-5 week range for best results, after reading through about 1/4 of "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian, he seems to put some emphasis on the...

so i decided to try making a batch of EdWort's Apfelwein and i just messed it up! i decided i was going to make a 4gal batch so i just bought 2lbs of corn sugar and what i THOUGHT was 4 gallons of 100% apple juice, well after i had poured all 4 bottles of apple juice in and mixed in the 25oz of...

i just brewed a Brewers Best "Classic English Pale Ale" kit last night and i came up with a lower SG than the instructions call for and was wondering if anybody knew why...the kit contains 3.3lbs of LME, 2 lbs of DME, 8oz of crushed crystal, 1oz kent golding bittering hops 2oz argentine cascade...

ive just brewed my 6th batch of extract brew, its a brewers best Kolsch kit and it has been in the primary for 7 days now, i wanted to bottle it today because its been at the specified FG for about 4 days now, but i also kinda wanted to actually do this one right, all of my previous brews i have...

i have no idea wut u r talking about, do u even know wut ur doing?

yooper is a lady?

and sorry im sure theres tons of posts on this but i tried searching but found no quick answers and im getting ready to bottle now

im looking for a quick way to sanitize my bottles and ive read about sanitizing in the dishwasher...i dont think my dish washer has a really hot sanitizing function and i was wondering if i would just put sanitizer in the soap thing or how would be the best way to do this?

is there any problem with overfilling the airlock? theres a line on mine where u are supposed to fill it to and i overfilled it and now that the middle piece has risen up from the co2 the water in the airlock is JUST below the very top of it...this isnt going to cause a problem is it? im not too...

dude no offense but apple vanilla stout beer sounds so disgusting

when a bottle of beer says its "unfiltered" does that mean that it still contains the yeast and should be poured into a glass leaving yeast sediment behind like a homebrew? im drinking an empyrean ale brand "Darkside Vanilla Porter" and it says its unfiltered and i also bought a beer called Easy...

Empyrean Ales this is a local brewery here in Lincoln, NE (where i live) that brews some excellent beers! i dont know how far out of lincoln they distribute their beer but if you ever see any empyrean beer on the shelf anywhere i highly recommend you buy it and try it out! im actually drinking...

thats pretty much what i use mines a bit smaller but they work well if u get it just make sure you calibrate it before using it

the digitals have an external probe that is meant to be put into water and stuff they are built for stuff like that

well if u had a slight buzz then pitching the yeast into too hot of wort isnt your problem, if that were the case there would be NO alcohol. and i definately would NOT use this as water for your next batch i could see that being really nasty tasting because u already have the malt and hops and...