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I found a restaurant (Jim n nicks BBQ) that correctly identifies their beer selection!!!

When trying to figure out the temp range for your fermentation do you use the temperature of the room it's fermenting in or the temp on the thermometer strip on the carboy? Because I have a cocoa porter going now that I believe should be between 65-75 degrees the room its sitting in is at 70 but...

So the problems have is that I want to add two vanilla beans to the porter I'm making but I won't have an available secondary to use so I won't be able to put the vanilla beans in that way, can anyone chime in on the best way to add vanilla beans to the boil?

I'm doing my second all grain batch with a bluemoon recipe that I like but I can't decide on the best neutral yeast for this brew. I dont want alot of different flavors to come from the yeast i want it neutral, I've been reading on here and it seems like WLP400 or Wyeast 1056 are recommended...

I was sanitizing my bottles and all my equipment for bottling and noticed halfway thru that there was a yellow color to the sanitizing solution coming from my yellow rubber gloves so half the bottles have this sort of rubber flavor to it as we'll, question is whether its safe to drink? I don't...

If I have used my hoses/siphon/bottling bucket with a beer that was contaminated sour, and I cleaned them really thoroughly with PBW and then starsan, will my next batch of beer become contaminated sour?

I had a stuck fermentation on my brew with an OG of 1.044 and I'm looking for a FG of close to 1.006 but I'm stuck at 1.020 after 10 days so i shook it around (the temp is at a constant 66-68 degrees) and at day 11 it still wasn't moving downside I pitched another full packet of dry yeast (same...

I was talking with a guy working at my LHBS and was asking him why I can't get a good batch of beer that doesn't seem contaminated and he informed me that if any of my plastic gets contaminated it will get any other plastic that touches the contamination and make it contaminated as well. He said...

When I cool my wort with my immersion chiller I cover the open top of the kettle with foil so that the air doesn't get to it while its cooling. Today I had a couple pieces of the foil dip into the chilled wort right before putting it in to the fermenter,.... can the little bit of foil that...

I have been extract brewing with steeping grains and am wondering when I add the hops at the start of the 60 min boil, should I Stir the whole 60 min or can I just leave it alone until I add my 15 min and 5 min hops

Looking for the best recipe for a creamy milk stout.....any suggestions??

What's the best way to add cocoa nibs to your brew?

I bought a stout extract kit with steeping grains about 2-3 weeks ago and want to brew tomorrow.....Will my LME still be fresh enough to make a good brew?

Hey guys ill get straight to the problem, I'm going on to my third homebrew and my first two haven't been up to par for what I think a craft brew should be. I've been extract brewing with about a 30 min boil beforehand where I steep some grains. My beers aren't very full bodied and the tastes...

Hello everyone I'm new to brewing and thought I would post my brews so that I could get some advice from the veterans as well as input from the newbies like myself :) FIRST BREW (Really second, I messed up my first one pretty badly, turned sour and terrible, my mom still liked it tho...)...