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All- I always find so much help and experience on this site... I hope someone can give me some advice. I'd like to get into kegging after doing this for long enough with bottles. I'd be looking at doing 5 gallon batches at the most. A couple of questions: 1 can I do a 3 gallon batch in...

There is a lot of knowledge on this system and I've really found there to be great help and advice. Could anyone advise how one can learn how to start making one's own recipes? I'm still a noob all grain guy, but looking for sources for making my own recipes. This could be books, websites...

So, I've read a lot of information, but looking for a reason people use specific amounts of water in both the mash and the sparge. In my first few brews, I have been using 1.25 quarts of water for every pound of grain for the mash because I read that somewhere. In the sparge, I have just been...

So, this is my second attempt at washing and I've read all of the pertinent posts about it. I'm hoping someone who has done this many times can look at the picture I posted because I don't feel that I've seen other posts with a similar pic. Is all the solid stuff yeast in this picture, or is...

So, I'm still new to the all grain world and I went ahead and brewed a Scottish ale. I started fermentation on September 6 and came in with a specific gravity of 1.044 when I added the wlp028. The FG goal was about 1.012. After one week I was well on my way, hitting 1.020. Now, today, sept 29...

Noob questions here - Made a Scottish ale this weekend. To offset the sweetness, recipe (4 gallons) called for 60 grams of Fuggle at initial boil (60 minutes) and that's the only addition. So, we were looking at a bittering hop and that's it. There was no Fuggle at the hbs, so I got some...

So, I've already washed and stored some wlp004 from a brew I completed back in March. I've always just bought a new tube of yeast each time I've brewed. Any suggestions on how to go about using this stored yeast in my next brew? I'm looking for all types of answers on this - how much to use...

Should I be straining my cooled wort of hops after the boil or should I leave the hops in the wort while I pitch?