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In general, 1 - 1/4 cups DME or 3/4 cups corn sugar is the correct amount to prime 5 gallons of brew. So you'd need to adjust that amount based on your own preferences for carb level and the total amount of beer you are priming. I always top off for a full 5 gallons in primary at start. From...

Check out Wyeast's page on yeast washing. Marc.

In the meantime... What I have done, is get a column of water in the siphon hose (either from your sanitizing solution if no rinse, or from water faucet) and then connect hose to racking cane while holding thumb over end of hose. Then you "purge" the primed tube into another bowl, which...

As mentioned before, honey is almost completely fermentable and so it tends to give you a very dry alcohol addition and really doesn't contribute to a honey flavor in the end product. Gambrinus honey malt will give you more of the honey flavor you might be looking for. I recently made a honey...

First off, with 6 lbs DME in 5 gallons you'll get an OG around 1.054. With extract brewing, the steeped grains contribute flavor/color but almost no fermentable sugar. So extract recipes you control the ABV with the DME. (lbs DME * 45 / gallons of wort = estimated OG). With that yeast you'll...

M&F Wheat DME - 55%wheat/45%barley. If you're making a hefeweizen, just add hops and yeast and you've got some pretty good beer. Marc.

Interesting; I've used oxygen barrier caps before and boiled them to sanitize. No probs here. But to be perfectly honest, I think the oxygen absorption is slight overkill. Once you prime, the yeast will use up any remaining air (small amount overall) anyways. I've always thought that oxygen...

Racking to secondary has the advantage of taking a large portion of the trub off the beer and giving the beer more time to clear. Plus, the amount of time spent in the secondary is pretty forgiving so it's a great tool to use if you are busy and will have to "work in" a time to bottle (or keg)...

I definitely would NOT use a hop bag when dry hopping; you'll have one hellova time getting it out of the carboy after you've bottled (esp w/ whole hops that absorb beer and swell--much like my belly). Marc.

Here is an article from BYO (Round It Up! Collecting Yeast from Bottles) that tells about collecting yeast from bottles. Enjoy. Marc.

Don't worry about it; some yeasts ferment faster than others. Fermentation can also be affected by the quantity of active yeast pitched, amount of oxygen, etc. In short, some beers will ferment within 36 or so hours and some will take over a week. Have a beer, forget about it and just rack to...

For me personally, I like to add all the flavors to my beer from the beginning, not at the end during bottling. Besides, the contribution from DME will be very "diluted" when you add it to 5 gallons of beer. DME supposedly gives you better head retention and also contains additional...

Are there particular yeast strains that are more likely to spew? I had a WLP300 Hefe strain that was quite eruptive...not quite on the ceiling, but a definite good spray around the carboy and the airlock was about 5 feet away. Is it temp, fermentable sugar, volume of yeast, yeast strain...