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I've got a beer in the fermenter now that I calculated at ~37 IBUs using Palmer's nomographs in How To Brew. When I put it into BeerTools I was shocked to see 60 IBUS! Why do I get wildly different IBU figures? Which one is correct? my recipe: 3 gal boil 6 lbs. Briess Gold LME .5 lbs...

Has anyone tried building a fermentor pail with a built-in hydrometer? I was thinking about a pail with a tube fixed to the outside which would fill with beer to the level the pail is filled. I have seen tubes like this on other opaque containers to indicate how full it is. In this case, we...

I'm working on my first batch of beer and I'd like some reassurance that I'm not making bottle bombs! I bottled 8 days ago and haven't had any trouble, but I was really shocked at the huge amount of CO2 blown off of a bottle I just opened. details of the brew: Boiled 3.3 lbs dark LME in 1...

Hi folks, I started brewing my first bucket of beer tuesday night and it seemed to have quite fermenting by wednesday night/thursday morning. I made my wort from 3.3 lbs dark malt extract, boiled in 1 gallon of water- probably 3 quarts left after boiling. Mixed it in the fermenter with 1.5...