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I'm planing on making half of my cream of 3 crop ale into a strawberry cream ale, I read on another thread to add the fruit a week after you brew and then rack it off a week later, would adding it late and leaving it in longer than a week make a difference?

Hey guys I'm doing my first stout tomorrow, it's my fourth beer. The question is that I have a packet of safale yeast, should I use that or should I buy a white labs or wyeast packet? I've never used a liquid yeast and don't know the difference really. I just want this to turn out good

I'd like to make a simple cooler mash tun. My question is do I have to use a brand-new cooler or can I use one of the many coolers I have around the house? The one I Would like to use is not horribly dirty on the inside but it also is not completely clean. If I clean it very good can it be used?

Im doing a blonde ale and the recipe calls for crystal 10L, lhbs only carries crystal 40L and 50L. Im not too concerned about color so that dosnt matter but would this change the taste at all? And I'm only using a half pound

I'm going to make a woodchuck amber clone, I like my cider on the sweeter side, so im going to sweeten with splenda and then add priming sugar to carb in bottles, the question is if I ferment to 1.0 or lower will the yeast still be able to convert the priming sugar to carbonate?

Im ready to do a blonde ale for my 3rd brew and I've read about everyone using a blow off tube, I know I would need one with a carboy buy I ferment in a 7 and a half gallon bucket, will I ever have krausen come up into the air lock?

I've seen a couple articles online about putting your bottles in the dishwasher, setting it on high heat, no soap, and running the bottles in that to sanitize. But havnt found too much on hbt, you guys got any experience with this? Or should I just stick to starsan

Just picked up 6 cases of 24 16 ounce bottles for 1.50 each!

hey guys ive been wanting to do a lager, but i want to do it the easiest way possible, if i stuck my fermenter in a large plastic bucket with ice water and kept it around 40 or so and just checked it once a day and added ice when needed, would this work out? or just be too much of a hassle...

I was gonna do a 2.5 gallon recipe by cutting down a recipe by half. But I only have two 2 gallon buckets, is it wise to go half and half? Also do I use have of the yeast packet?

My fruit cellar were I keep my bottles to condition got down to about 40 degrees last night. Did it kill the yeast in my bottles?

I'm Doing a true brew red ale kit tonight, The recipe calls for 1.5 gallons to be boiled for a half hour, I have a brew pot that holds 5 gallons of water. Would it be better to up the volume a little bit for my brew? Or just stick to 1.5?

this could be a stupid question but i just bottled my first batch of extract amber. i went a head and tasted a little bit just cause, and it tasted very bitter. after the beer conditions and carbonates will it taste any different? thanks

I'm new to all grain just wondering what all the 120L and 500L listed after the grains, also the precentages? Thanks

Ive never done a all grain recipe and have a few questions. I don't have a mash ton so could I soak the grains in my Brew pot for desired time, then remove and place the bag of grains over top of the kettle in a colander to sparge? Then after that go straight into brewing and adding hopps...

Sorry im a noob, but is it possible to found out your hop bitterness? if so how?