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Most of the time, maybe all of the time, the temp when I bottle is the highest temp after the end of fermentation, which will be whatever I've been controlling it to with a heat blanket or swamp cooler. But still, this is news to me. I'd never been entirely sure why the calculator had included...

I had opened a bottle after 3-4 weeks of conditioning, and I opened another bottle last night after about 8 weeks of bottle conditioning. Both were put in the fridge for 5-7 days before opening. Each showed the same behavior- no gushing, no excess carbonating in the bottle even after opening and...

Honestly I imagined there'd be more shards of glass. Found this bottle with the bottom in two pieces inside the crate surrounded by all the other bottles which are undamaged. What do I do with the rest of the bottles? They've been conditioning for almost two months. Can I de-cap and re-cap...

I just added some top-off water to my wort. First time I've done that in quite a while. Since switching to all grain. I'm paranoid, so I boiled it first. But I never had a problem when I was topping off my extract brews with tap water. Risk from the water should be low, much lower than other...

I decide to take a stab at Charlie's old coconut curry hefeweizen. Smelled delicious while cooking it up. Time to go chill it, pitch, & clean up.

I don't aerate. And I don't do starters. I brew 5 gallon batches. I'm sure somewhere that'll catch up to me. But until then, simplicity is bliss.

I contacted the organizer and the beers are placed in a fridge. When it fills up they have access to a walk-in cooler. Thanks for all the feedback. Especially the shipping advice. Shipping seems like a lot of work, but maybe something I'll do next time around. I happened to be driving by the...

I'm considering entering my first competition. When you submit a beer a few days or a week ahead of the judging date, do they stick them in a fridge? I don't want to put my beer through a couple rounds of temperature swings. So I was wondering, do you ever chill your beers before a...

I started an online group for friends who have dabbled with, considered dabbling with, or heard of dabbling with homebrewing. It's got a lot of folks who don't live close enough to come brew with me. They don't post much but they all read everything I put out there for them, including many links...

I had the same problem last week recirculating into a paint strainer bag. After running the pump for a few minutes I looked down and there was inches of wort in the pot around the bag and gallons of wort in the bag! I took my metal spoon and stirred / scraped the inside of the bag and that let...

Every time I brew I invite a friend or relative over to help. They all get a little bit of the bug and ask to come back and help again. Almost got my borther to switch from extract to all grain.

You beat me to it. My second batch was an accidental sour. Of sorts. One friend asked if it was a barley wine and when I started telling folks it was they thought it was great.

I soak mine in bourbon. The last porter I made with vanilla beans I used 2 Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans - 0.2oz when weighed. I took a knife and split them to expose the insides, and sliced them into 1-2 inch strips. Soaked in 2 oz bourbon for 8 days, which was just enough to cover them...

How'd it taste? I took a sample of my IIAA the other night after just over 3 weeks in the primary. It was down to about 1.012 or around 8.3% ABV and it was delicious. So I decided to skip the secondary. I threw in 1.5 oz of hops (1oz Cascade and 0.5 oz Centennial). I'm going to let it sit for...

I have an imperial amber/red ale in the primary right now that I hopped the heck out of. IIRA? Imperial India Red Ale? IIAA? Anyway, after another week or so I'm going to transfer it and plan on dry hopping with some centennial and cascade. Here's a recipe for a craft brew that does well...

Can't answer your question, but if it makes you feel any better two weeks ago I dropped a clamp into my boil. Not this exact one but something like it: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000022450/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 That was a pain to fish out. I'm not dead, but I haven't drunk the...

DIY me!

I'd love to hear how this works for you. I've considered doing the same thing, bag-line the MLT, to cut down on vorlauf or stuck sparge issues and further reduce the risk of grain slipping through to the boil. You say if the mash works well, you'll batch sparge. What do you normally do? Am I...

Ever read a thread that's 7 pages long and come out feeling like you know less at the end than you did when you started?

This'd be great.