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Making a porter for the first time. Does this recipe look ok? 6.5 lbs Maris Otter 1.5 lb Munich 13.6 oz Brown Malt 9 oz Crystal 120 4.5 oz chocolate malt 4.5 oz crystal medium Magnum and challenger hops US-05 yeast Found this recipe, so it's not mine. Just curious what everyone's opinion...

How important is it to know the water chemistry prior to using it? Will the differences of tap water vs bottled water make a huge difference in the beer taste and quality? If I use bottled water, what do I need to add to have the right chemistry? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Bottling day and here is what I find. I am going to siphon from underneath, will this work or should I expect bottle bombs?

Am curious what everyone's opinion is on the available brewing apps. I thought about beer smith, can anyone tell me if good for a beginner or not?

My pale ale has taken on a metallic taste of several weeks in the bottle. Is this the water? What else causes the taste?

Are there any negative effects from dry hopping too long? The recipe I uses for an IPA said to dry hop 5-7 days but it will be more like 10-14 days when I bottle. Thoughts?

For fermenting in a glass carboy I have a "thermometer" attached to the carboy. It is one of those stick on strips which are nice for monitoring the wort temp. Has anyone tried these for a plastic bucket? Does it work as well as for glass? I would think it works but curious.

Batch was put into fermenter last nite. The glitch? The stopper for the airlock fell in the carboy. It was sanitized but with as much as I handled it who knows. Thoughts? I know it's early yet.

Just ordered the pumpkin ale from Austin home brew. Anyone tried this yet! How did it turn out? I bought the extract kit with wyeast.

I bottled my second batch tonite and the kit I bought had DME as the bottling sugar. Is this normal? I assume it is since it was in the kit just was curious. The brew is a wheat so didn't know if it needed a different type of sugar to bottle or not.

Ok so I ran my bottles thru a sanitizing cycle in the dishwasher and they are still warm. Will this affect the beer going into the bottles? It's no where near warm enough to kill the yeast. Thanks

Anyone have a recipe for a Tank 7 clone? I looking to do an extract recipe as I am not ready for all grain. I have searched and didn't find a clone but did find various other saison recipes. I figured this would be perfect time to make a saison and I really like Tank. Thanks for any input.

Has anyone ever used a wine bottle to bottle beer? If so, how did you cap it? Can you use a cork? I am desperately looking for bottles for my second batch and just about this option. Not sure that it is feasible. Thoughts?

So I have a wheat in the fermenter and after 10 days I added some raspberry. I have no seen airlock activity which I know doesn't necessarily mean fermentation isn't happening and maybe I missed it altogether. I guess I will wait another week or so before I start checking gravity. Any...

I bottled my first batch today. It's a pale ale. Tasted decent when I checked gravity so I am hopeful. A question, when you add priming sugar do you mix it in or let the transfer of wort naturally mix it in? I let the wort mix in the sugar and I'm a bit concerned there will be uneven...

I have my wheat in the fermenter and I am wondering about the best way to add the fruit. My local brew shop said add right to the primary using fresh fruit. I have read on here people have used frozen fruit. I am apt to using frozen since fresh will be quite expensive

Anyone know of a kit or recipe for a raspberry wheat or blueberry lager? Never mind. I searched the site and found plenty of ideas.

So, the beer I am going to brew is an English ale and the recipe calls for using a secondary fermenter. I know opinions vary on here, but if I don't use the secondary how will this effect the beer? Less clarity? Flavor? Just curious.

I bought my kit and am planning my first batch. The kit included a bucket and glass Carboy. I have seen other threads related so I am just curious. I was planning to use the carboy as the primary and the bucket as my secondary since the bucket has a spigot and will be easier to bottle from...