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I ordered some grain for an English Bitter from Austin Home Brew (awesome vendor BTW). They have a great service were you can get your grain bill for an individual recipe pre-blended, down to the ounce on stuff. Anyway, I must not have been paying attention and ordered one of my batches with...

Kind of annoying. Bought a smack pack of Wyeast 1318 from the LHBS about a month ago, in preparation for making Orfy's Boddington Bitter. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f64/boddingtons-bitter-21131/ The yeast was manufactured in July, can't recall the exact date. Anyway, I took it out of...

I brewed an IPA a few weeks back and didn't have an appropriate Sulfate salt on hand to add to the brew water. I'm ready to prime and bottle this wort in a few days. Will adding a Sulfate salt at this point still help enhance the hop flavor as when sulfate is added to the water...

Making an IPA today and its the only source handy for Sulfate. I realize its not the best source considering the Sodium / Sulfate balance for IPA's. Anyhing else to consider?

Looking for a sanitary check. I was gonna brew last week, but at the last minute I didn't have time. So the starter I had built up, was right at peak to pitch (i.e. 24 hours or so old since I'd last stepped it up). So I threw it in the fridge to stop the yeast from progressing to a...

I'm planning a 3L batch with some experimental ingredients. Wanna see how it comes out before making a full batch and figure the 8 or so bottles I'll get can tell enough of a story. Gonna rig up a 1 gallon glass jug with an airlock. It'll be nice to be able to brew inside in the stovetop...

Anyone ever heard of this or tried to clone it? My father was raving to me about it the other day. Apparently it's brewed in Barbados and only distributed to a few islands in the caribbean. I searched the net and since it doesn't seem to be widely distributed I was figuring I could...

So Wed night I made an AHS clone of Sierra Nevada. Hit OG no problem. Transferred about the first 2 gallons to carboy with about a 3 foot drop, shook to insane levels. Transferred last 3 gallons, with again a good drop into the carboy, and shook it pretty well again. I had about 6" of foam...

So I used an immersion chiller to cool a 5 gallon boil. Chiller was connected to a garden hose(s). I connected the chiller to both hose before starting the boil, and tested it to ensure the everything was connected tightly so there would be no leaks that contaminated the batch. I put...

So, I haven't got alot of batches under my belt yet. And so far just extract ale kits. However, to date all the kits I've gotten seem to have the option of using dried yeast. I understand starters, and I understand that there are some beer styles that may require an exotic yeast. But other...

Currently got this kit brewing for about a week+ now: http://legacy.northernbrewer.com/docs/kis-html/1511.html Which uses 1lb of honey in a 5 gal batch. I followed the kit instructions which call for adding the honey at the start of the 1hr boil with the other malt ingredients...

Brewed my first batch last night, an extract kit from Northern Brewer.http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/recipe-kits/extract-kits/extract-ale-kits/irish-draught-ale-extract-kit.html. Everything seemed to go fine for a first timer, including wort areation. I used the Nottingham Danstar...

I was told with a new turkey fryer pot (Al), to first fill with water, bring to a boil for 30 min, allow to cool. This would provide an oxidized seal on the pot. Well between when I was told this and when I did it, I forgot some details. I only boiled for 10min, and chilled with my immersion...

So I'm probably going to be ordering my first equipment next week, and was looking at what I would try for my first brew and was figuring extract might be a bit easier while I'm learning. So I was looking at the Kits on Northern Brewer, and it seems like most of the darker ale kits include some...

Ok, this is the first of what will probably be alot of questions for me. I'm totally new, never brewed at home, don't own any equipment yet, etc. I think I'm going to go the route of just buying some good equipment first rather than do a kit and spend a huge chunk upgrading later. Right now...