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I'm a newb and I'm learning on Brewer's Best kits, mostly because that's what the shop in the small town I live in sells. I love stouts, especially chocolate stouts and oatmeal stouts. So, how can I make the BB Oatmeal Stout kit come out with a chocolate flavor? Can I simply just add some...

Hello friends, I am going to use a small chest freezer as a fermentation chamber. I will be using it with a 5G FastFerment, controlled by Inkbird 308. Length and width are fine but I need to add about 20" of height to the freezer. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks!

Hello friends, I am converting a chest freezer into a fermentation chamber for a 5G FastFerment. I would like advice please for a reasonably priced temperature controller and your advice on where to purchase it from. The freezer will be kept indoors and for the time being I have been...

Hello all, I'm a newb and doing my second yeast start. I'm working with the yeast that came with my Brewer's Best Mexican Cerveza 5 gal. kit. It is a packet of dry Nottingham yeast, exp. 2/19. My first yeast start was with Saflager S-23 and it was VERY active, this Nottingham seems pretty lame...

Maybe everything is ok, maybe not...I'm not sure. Maybe your insight can help. There are a lot of "firsts" for me this batch. I'm using a FastFerment for the first time, first 5 gallon batch, which is Brewer's Best Continental Pilsener, and first time doing a yeast start. My yeast start was...

Hello friends, It didn't take me long to burn out my Red Baron capper and after shopping around for its replacement, I'm not too excited about what's out there. Like the Red Baron, they all seem to rely on way too much plastic in critical places. So...I ran across THIS baby, a vintage Everedy...

Hello friends, I'm a newbie brewer and I'm just gearing up to do 5 gallon batches. Looking ahead, I want to eventually dive into all-grain, but I am undecided about larger batch sizes. Please help me with these questions. 1. I just bought a Tall Boy 10 gallon. My stove top can boil 4...

Hello friends, A local seller is offering used 5 and 6 gallon carboys. My choice, $20 ea. I think I'll buy a couple and I want to know if a 6 gallon carboy would work for secondary fermenting of 5 gallon batches. This is my main use for carboys. Would I have oxidation issues? I...

I picked this up from the local Goodwill today, hoping to use it to mill grain. I don't plan on making batches bigger then 10 gallons (probably only 5 gal.). Goodwill accepts returns, so don't feel afraid to tell me if I chose poorly. :)

"In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime." -Ben Sidran I submit for your consideration these three vintage cans of Mr. Beer extract: They were given to me, all having "best-by" dates in 2012. They included three bags of petrified booster packets and...

I'm a total newb and so I have to ask this stoopid question... My local retailer sells Brewers Best kits and they all have a can of LME along with DME, specialty grains, hops, yeast, etc. The same seller also sells many kinds of bags of DME and bags of the specialty grains. What if I...

I've been doing Mr. Beer extracts since Febr. I'm ready to move on to 5 gallon batches (or just maybe bigger). I think I'm going to go to Brewer's Best partial extract kits because a local shop has them at reasonable prices. They also sell Fastfermenters in stock (5 gallon ones). I may go to...

Hello friends, I got a can of Mr Beer extract in the super-cheap, but the expiration date on the can is 5-20-17. Not out of date, but not exactly fresh. It is the Grand Bohemian Czech Pilsner. Yes, I know that Pilsners usually ferment with Lager yeasts but Mr. Beer refills all use the same...

Hello friends, I have some cool 32 oz. beer bottles (made to look like old moonshine jugs) that originally had screw-on lids. I figured out yesterday that the 38 mm lids like the local wine shop sells for 1 gallon jugs fits these old beer bottles and now I'd like to bottle my beer in them. Is...

Hello all! I'm a newb, and I've got a gallon of 1 Step sanitizer water that I saved from when I sanitized some (clean) bottles. It is capped and just sitting in a one gallon container...can I now safely use that same sanitizer to sanitize my fermenter? It has been sitter there for a couple...