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I'm wondering if I should bother using RO water from Walmart @ .37 / gallon or just use my tap water - the info sheet is attached. We use chlorine here, but the alkalinity is a little high and the water hard - 127 avg alkalinity and avg total hardness 137. This will be for a specialty grain...

I am going to try a PM on my pliny clone recipe soon - maybe when it drops from 100' this week to 70' next :p I have a couple of big pots to choose from - my big bottomed crawfish pot girl and a tall skinny 10 gallon pot - is it better to have small surface area or wider for the boil...

Check this out! Woah!! Just popped the cork on a 6 month conditioning on our LBS 10 year anniversary IPA and check out the bottle bubble rings :fro:

Are there some guidelines to temperatures for SERVING beer? I noticed that drinking some of our homebrew in the IPA style that there wasn't much flavor, but when leaving it out to warm a bit on the counter first really helped to bring out the hop. It also helped with the ranger and 2xIPA's...

I'm reading Palmer's book and am confused on step 5 on page 74 - it says 'this starter has been built up twice' but doesn't explain how to build it up - so I must have missed something! Are you pouring off the fermented wort and adding the dregs back to another pint of fresh wort to multiply...

I have a question about sanitizing - when star san says a 1-2 minute contact time, does that mean spray on and let sit for 1-2 minutes, or does that mean I have to make 5 gallons and let it sit in my fermenter for 1-2 minutes and then dump the whole thing out? Seems silly to dump the whole...

Looking for my next adventure in HB - and had this little beauty last night. I would like to shoot for something like the Southern Tier 2X IPA and wondered if you guys had any suggestions for kits that might get me in the ball park. The last kit I did was a DME / specialty malt kit, which was...