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I know if you add all of your extract early on your beer may come out a little darker due to the LME/DME caramelizing a bit. I've never heard of the sugars becoming less fermentable due to early additions unless you char a bunch in the bottom of the kettle. I never add all of my extract in the...

My wife got pissed because our kitchen fridge always had a ton of beer in it and little room for that other stuff...food. I remedied that by buying a Kenmore Kegerator from Sears and converted it to a twin tower to dispense 2 homebrews at a time. It fits in the space I have and can't be more...

On my IIPA's I dry hop with about 3oz. Tons of hops floating around and a sanitized hop bag and tie wrap on the end of the racking cane prevents any hop particles from getting into my keg. Although I definitely don't mind chewing on a few hop particles, I've clogged my dip tube before and had to...

Since I started home brewing I've been kegging my beer. I recently decided to bottle a six pack and/or a couple of bombers of each batch to age and take to parties. I added the Brewers Best Conditioning Tablets to sanitized bottles following their recommendations for med. carbonation. 4...

Your O.G isn't THAT far off but I know how it feels not to hit the expected O.G the recipe calls for. As a rule of thumb I always add an extra cup of DME to my boil figuring that'll compensate for the LME left stuck to the side of the containers. I constantly hit my O.G and maybe go a little...