beginner

hey guys. So I want to get into home brewing. I’ve been looking into a bunch of beginner kits and I’m open to spend anywhere from 200-500 dollars on a nice beginner set up. My main desire is that it be able to keg the beer. I’ve looked at a lot of 5 gallon set ups with the mini kegs and that...

So I had an idea for this "Girl Scout Cookie" type of recipe and came up with this. Not sure if it has too much stuff in it, perhaps it might do well without the Cinnamon. This is BIAB, by the way. Boil: 7 Gal Batch: 5 Gal Brewing Time: 60min Temp: 100 (when malts go in) 150 (until water boils...

I've put together a NEIPA recipe, but i'm short on money, and my brew supplier only sels 50 and 30g hop packages, so that is something I had to be aware of, so I wanted to ask you guys if this is still a working recipe. 15l batch Grains: American Pale Ale malt 2kg Marris Otter 1kg Flaked oats...

So I'm going on my tenth batch of homebrew and finally picked up all of the things needed to make a proper yeast starter. It's spinning away right behind me as we speak. I think I might have made an error in calculating the size needed to fully ferment my beer. Beersmith is telling me I need...

hey all, I’ve been wanting to brew beers for years, and finally bit the bullet and bought a kit, and I’m way stoked. I just brewed a saison, and, while a fun experience, I’m thinking I’m having temp control problems, since the beer taste especially yeasty and kind of strange. I’d love to be...

Hey everyone, So call me crazy but I don't currently have the time or capital to outfit an old mini fridge into a ferm chamber (I'd need to extend the fridge and get a temp control unit, not rocket science but a small investment none the less for later). In the meantime id like to brew something...

I'm currently working on a 1 gallon cherry Mead, although I'm doubting myself on the ingredients I have used. Instead of water and cherries, I used a gallon of tart cherry juice. Any thoughts on what this could do to the final product?

Dear readers! I recently became interested in homebrewing, to the point I would like to buy my own homebrewing set-up in the near future. Now, I'm really curious what set-ups would be a really great start. I have been looking around and a large variety of set-ups passed my screen, but I can't...

So this is what happened. I have currently just finished bottling my first homebrew kit and I think I screwed it up already and didn’t notice until I realized I had about 9 500ml bottles extra. The problem is when racking from primary fermenter to my secondary fermenter I left way to much...

hey guys im a new brewer and I wanted to ask if during primary fermentation if oxygen is required for the yeast I know that the yeast is a facultative anaerobe so it prefers oxygen but does not need so why then do we limit exposure during primary fermentation with the gromett and air lock? Also...

So I did a 3 gallon batch last night in a 5 gallon corny (to ferment) and am a little worried about a few things. 1. This is my first time rehydrating yeast - I made sure to use sterile water put the yeast in it at 86F let sit 15 min then stired, then poured once within 10F of the wort, which...

Hi everyone! I am a newbie brewer from the Old Line State. My Dad was really into making his home made wine and I was fortunate enough to inherat alot of his equipment to start the journey of home brewing. Thanks for all of the great information thus far and looking forward for more to come. Cheers!

Hey all, I have never kegged before but I've been brewing for almost a decade now. I just cleaned out an old fridge that I will soon be converting into a kegerator, but I need helping choosing a regulator. My long term goal is to have a three tap setup, but I only want to start with 1 tap...

Hi Guys! This is the first recipe i've put together, and i'm interested what you think about it, and I really need some advice! So, I'm trying to make a stout, all grain with a 5 gallon batch size, BIAB Grains: 10lbs Pale Malt 2lbs Carapils 1lbs Carafa 3 1lbs Chocholate malt 1lbs Roasted...

I am planning to brew my fourth batch this weekend. I will be making a Kölsch but I plan on dry hopping it. Any suggestions on what hop I should use? Has anyone had success dry hopping a Kölsch before?

Hey yall, it's my first time brewing anything. I've got incredibly limited resources, but I believe I'm on the right track to making my first batch of wine. I added some bakers yeast to some grape juice after activating it and saturating the juice with more sugar for the yeast to eat and I've...

Hi, i have a beginner question, if i decided to use a hopped malt extract, but i have a small kettle (e.g kettle is 1 gallon and malt extract requires 6). Could i use part of malt extract (by calculate needed proportion, e.g 1/4) for a few times, without any quality losses?

So first try ever making mead has anyone had a bad experience with a certain material for the siphoning tube where it has left residual rubber or plastic taste?

Here is a simple excel spread I use to calculate everything I need for my set up. I also use beersmith, but sometimes once I have a recipe made its easier to use this for the process. I do small 3G batches with only a single mashout. Normally i add the water to my cooler and slowly introduce the...

I brewed a GF Brown Ale yesterday but ended up with an original gravity of 1.084 instead of the expected (according to Brewers Friend) 1.055 Link below if you want to check out the recipe. Basically everything went smoothly and according to plan. I had never done a 'specialty' grain recipe...