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I'm used to having a pretty active fermentation with lots of krausen, but on my recent batch there was little to no visible activity. However, my gravity readings are just about spot on, so does that mean things worked out OK? It's an Irish Red Ale all grain kit, 5.25 gallons of wort, aerated...

So the original kit I received as a gift came with 6.5 and 5 gallon glass carboys. While I'm certainly still in the process of learning about and getting good at brewing, I'm definitely ready to change these guys out for something better. After plenty of reading and trial and error on my...

I'm trying to simplify things a bit in order to get a repeatable brewing process down. One of the things I'm doing is skipping racking to secondary and fermenting entirely in the primary. The plan was to ferment for 3 weeks in primary before bottling, but i realize now I'll be out of town...

I have a 3 piece plastic airlock. I filled to the fill line with star-san solution and placed in the rubber stopper on top of the carboy. I aerated the wort for 5 minutes with a stone, and gave it an additional shake for good measure before adding yeast (White Labs WLP001). I had a nice...

I had a free day yesterday and got to spend it putting my new rig to work making my first BIAB batch. I'm getting my head wrapped around it, but as everyone knows there's a lot to process! I used Brewer's Friend and because this is my first brew I had to go with some estimates on what my...

0 for 3 on the brewing so far with extract kits. First batch was an IPA that while it tasted alright was more like a Bass Ale than an IPA. Second Batch was a Russian River Blind Pig kit that tastes like an oak barrel (too much chips for too long?) Giving it more bottle time in hopes that...

I bought a Bayou Classic KA4B burner from amazon last week, brought it home and hooked it up to a newly filled propane tank, went to fire it up and... nothing. No gas is flowing from the tank through the regulator. I disconnected and reconnected several times, re-read the manual in...

I've made a couple of batches of brew using relatively rudimentary methods, and now I'm ready to step up my game to BIAB. I've purchased a 10gal SS Brewtech Kettle with thermometer and now I'm looking for advice on cooling my wort before pitching. I opted against the false bottom, as from...

So last night i brewed up a Russian River Blind Pig clone from MoreBeer. Things were going smoothly. I was a well oiled machine, everything in place and ready to go for the next step. Unfortunately, my preparation was a little too good. The kit includes 9 lbs of malt extract in a bag...

Hey all, I made my first batch a couple of weekends ago and it's resting nicely in bottles waiting to be sampled. Everything was looking and smelling good as I bottled it, so I've got high hopes for the end result! I thoroughly enjoyed the process and have been reading up trying to...

Hey All, A couple of years ago a friend of mine bought me a home brew kit for christmas. While I was ecstatic, it sat unused for a while because I procrastinate a lot, it did not come with an ingredient kit and the instructions that came with it were pretty lacking. I finally ordered an...

Hey All, My name's Rich and I'm from Southern California. I've lurked here on and off for a couple of years now. I finally made my first batch a couple of weeks ago using a kit my buddy bought me for Christmas a couple years ago. It's resting in the bottles currently, and my mind is...