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Does your brew room develop it's own yeast culture in the air after you have been brewing with the same yeast for awhile? I have been using Nottingham a lot lately. I brewed a 5 gallon batch and let it cool down in the bucket over night. In the morning I opened the lid to check the temp and...

***Warning*** I have lots of pics lol :P I just bought Radical Brewing so I decided to make the Fireball Mead :ban: 15 lbs of honey 50 fireballs 2 tsp nutrient 2 tsp energizer CR51 Yeast (I wanted Wyeast 4028 but they didn't have it. but this one should work) The closest thing to "Red Zinger...

So there I was... picking up my first kegging system from my local brew shop. I put the keg and CO2 tank upright in the back of my PT Cruiser and we are off. The parking there is terrible so I pretty much have to drive over a small portion of the curb. When I do that the bump as a get down...

Main Questions: 1. How long should I wait to rack it. 2. When should I bottle it. What happened: This brew is suppose to be a hard lemonade. I used Minute Maid Lemonade with some extra sugar to bring up the percentage. I don't remember what the SG was. Everything was looking good, I...

After looking at a few other recipes for Irish reds I am starting to think I might have a little to much crystal malt. I also did not want the roasted barley to over take the flavor so I kept that to a minimum which is really hurting the color. I brewed this on Sunday so I will see how it...

I made my first major blunder the other day. I was racking my wheat beer into the secondary onto some raspberry flavoring, it was about half way done when I realized I don't actually remember using my starsan to clean it out. I remember washing it but that's it. At that point it was to late...

I got a buddy that is going to Korea for awhile, not sure where exactly, and he plans on taking a few Cooper's kits with him. Our problem right now is he might not have access to corn sugar while he is over there so would 3lbs of honey work instead? How much will this affect the flavor...

First, some info: My back bathroom had some minor plumbing issues that I had been to lazy to fix so the bathroom has not been used for a few months. I finally got around to fixing it an noticed the temp in there was fairly low and we weren't really using it anyway so....... SWMBO gave me...