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A 48qt Igloo 'Island Breeze' Cooler went on clearance at work. The craftsmanship is obviously lacking. The plastic skin bows inward when minnimal pressure is applied. Noone in their right mind would pay the $32 asking price. The $7.50 clearance price, however, seemed too good to pass up. So now...

So our first big beer is tucked away in the basement fermenting furiously. We pitched our starter and everything seems to be going well so far. This beer is pushing the alcohol tolerance of the yeast. We're using WLP001 (11% tolerance) and this beer is gonna settle out around 9.9 to 10.3%. To...

We're brewing our first big beer, and in the interest of doing things right we're going to prepare a starter for it. This is our first starter, and while John Palmer's book makes the process seem easy and accessible, it does raise a concern. For our 1.086 ale he recommends 300 billion cells...

My copy of how to brew is missing and I an about to bottle. Can anyone check the priming sugar sudbury chart for me? I need to know how much brown sugar to is equal to table sugar. God speed, brewing friends!

My girlfriend and I began brewing recently and everything has been going well. With a few batches batches behind us we've decided to branch out and attempt our own recipe. We are, however, starting with a small, manageable batch size. We want to make a coffee porter that is really built...

We're a little over a week into primary for our second batch, Revvy's Kentucky Common. We did stove top all grain BiaB, and our efficiency was pretty low. We used wyeast 1056 and fermented on the cool side, 63-64. Well at least that's how it started out. Our ac brok. This happened with our...

My second batch is fermenting away in the basement and my mind is running wild with all the thins I want to do. I figured I could combine a few of them to get it out of my system while learning a lot. I want to play with SMaSH brewing to learn about malt and profiles. I also want to try...

I'm brand new to brewing, having only a porter extract kit to my name. My girlfriend and I got into this together and our goal is to learn how to build our own AG recipes. From reading John Palmer's book and listening to a lot of podcasts from Jamil the one factor that has really stuck out at me...