fermenting bucket

Hey peeps! Going to start my second batch of beer and wanted to run something by you experienced brewers. After fermenting my first batch and racking to a secondary I immediately rinsed, washed and sanitized my fermenting pail. Going to use it today I found it still smelled like beer so I went...

Hey everyone, I brewed a block party summer ale from northern brewing and I don’t think I boiled the wort hard enough but it’s been fermenting for 2 weeks and one week was colder temperatures so I got a heat pad to make it around 70F and it’s been at that for a week under a blanket for...

Hi Guys, I brewed a pale ale (LME extract kit) about 15 days ago. Pitched Safale 05 yeast at around 70-75 degrees. Fermentation started within 12 hours or less. Bubbled quite a bit for the first week or so. Now it has been in the fermentor for 15 days at a consistent room temperature of...

I just watched the Alton Brown home brewing episode (see: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/alton-brown-homebrew-you-tube-46677/). He does so many things wrong, but one thing I thought was interesting was his choice (maybe not intentionally) to use the bottling bucket to ferment the beer. After...