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Brewers, I'm planning to bottle two batches of beer that have been in secondary for about 5 months so my intention is to re-yeast at bottling. I've never done this before, so I was thinking about making a small, (400ml) starter with one packet of dry yeast and splitting it in half to...

Brewers: I'm looking for some opinions. After calibrating my new thermometer in a 60/40 Ice/Water slush, these are the readings I saw. In your opinion and from your experience, which of these would you trust in the 145-170 F range? Does it even really matter for homebrew? What are your...

Brewers, I'm getting ready to bottle a Lord Fatbottom Barleywine batch and I'm trying to figure out the best plan for bottling sugar. Bottle-bombs and/or over-carbonation are things I would like to avoid. :p I will be re-yeasting, as it's been in secondary for about 5 months. With the...

Yeah, I actually pushed my rubber stopper in to my carboy full of 5.5 gallons of freshly pitched wort. Has anyone ever done this and tasted the results of the fermentation? I think I can save the carboy, after watching this awesome video: http://blog.viddler.com/cdevroe/wine-cork/ My...

Greetings HBT gurus! The archives here have been very helpful and encouraging, as I've brewed my first two batches in the last couple weeks. I've been thinking about homebrewing for several years now and finally pulled the trigger this month. The wealth of information here is overwhelming...